MADAGASCAR VANILLA BEAN RED VELVET LINZER HEARTS WHOOPIE PIES @BAKED SUNDAY MORNINGS
The whole place ,and more so the open kitchen , smells like cake right now.....ok Chocolate cake ....doesnt that sound good?
Wait wait....Red Velvet Chocolate cake....ahh better???
I think i can call these a cookie cake , and this is the first time i am ever enjoying one or eating one coz there are no whoopie pies that happen here.
Ok ok heart shaped linzer Red Velvet Whoppie pies, with Marshmallow fluff filling......now now , that is what completes the pic!
This should be there at every wedding , maybe on a lolly stick , but they should be there for sure.
Coz they are like a wedding , when 2 become one , here 2 whoopie pie singles , come together to make one deliciously cute whoopie pie.
This is my first post for Baked Sunday Mornings , where we are baking our way thru the new BAked +no rules, always a +, its also the first time ever im biting into a whoopie pie , so honestly i have no nostalgic memories of this one , but have been looking forward to a whoopie pie , so its a post of all firsts happening here.
They were lovely , the chocolaty flavor so good, with Vanilla making it better , i thought espresso would bring it out more , but than that would not be a red velvet than no?
The reason i chose the Marshmallo fluff filling , from the whoopie pie pan box, is coz ,as far as i know, thats what goes into whoopie pies , and i so wanted that.
I love Linzer cookies ,and Faith , a sweet and dear friend has these linzer cupcake up , ever since ,everything i bake , i want to make them Linzer.
Oh yes , there will be cupcake too:-)
And Linzer = piping some more fluffy filling in the cut out , detailed pics below...
And these are the CupCake Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, oh yeah , hearts...and there are some more below..
U begin with the usual , getting together , all the dry ingredients in a nice large bowl ,and if its pink and heart shaped , it'll make u smile too ....
There is flour , baking soda+powder, salt in there...
Ahh and yes , cant forget ,Valrhona dark chocolate is absolutely wonderful...
NExt u whisk the wet ingredients , ie the canola oil and buttermilk .
Now i use the powdered buttermilk powder coz i have enough stock of that , but actually u add the buttermilk powder to the dry ingredients and water in place of wet , but here is re constituted the buttermilk with the water , and whisked with the canola oil.
Why? No reason , more often than not , i go with the flow!
A sure couldn resist adding a whole Madagascar bourbon Vanilla bean , innards, to the butter +shortening , that too , i halved the recipe.
Here is the butter , with jus a wee bit of shortening , creamed till smooth.
And thats when u add the sugar's.
A slight tweak here , i added light Brown sugar instead of dark brown , and added 1/4cup tightly packed light brown adnd 1/4th cup castor sugar , ie coz i halved the recipe and this made it easier.
Oh look at the creamy mix , thats everything well beaten for 5mins and thats when u add an egg , a small egg , around 37 grams , coz the full recipe calls for a large one ,which might be around 56 grams or more , i thought this was ok for half the recipe.
And yes , we do get eggs that small , most of our eggs , come from home grown , free range chickens, who are pets more than anything , so they are like organic , free range eggs , with a nice yellow yolk and many a times , we get those tiny little ones.
And once the egg is beaten well , u add in the color , i added gel color , so jus added what i thought was right (never mind if i wasnt).....
And the color i added was Wiltons Christmas red color gel,(honestly its more pink than red, dunno why its called Christmas red, for real red , i prefer Americolor), and i dunno if 1/2 tbh of color was a lot or no , anyway i didn measure how much i added in...
Beat it in...isnt that nice and red ...or is it pink , never mind , its nice!
Now u need to alternately add flour and the buttermilk oil duo , in 3 additions , beginning and ending with flour, well i had an extra addition to finish it with flour.
And ready to go in the freezer for 10 mins , i think this is needed so it doesnt spread too muc (dis is what i think , i dont know if its a fact yet), i might have not needed this step coz i am using a pan here , but yet i went right ahead and placed it in the freezer for sometime.
And ready to go in the freezer for 10 mins , i think this is needed so it doesnt spread too muc (dis is what i think , i dont know if its a fact yet), i might have not needed this step coz i am using a pan here , but yet i went right ahead and placed it in the freezer for sometime.
Using a 2tbh cookie scoop , made it easy to scoop in the batter into the heart shaped WP pan...
And then i leveled it with a Spatula , i should have left half without leveling , i thinking if i had done that , i would have got a slight mound there.
Place on a baking tray and in that goes....
And if u have some batter left , i did, look out for some more heart molds , to bake them in...
Pop that in the oven too....
These Cupcake Whoopie Pies , are absoutely soft and moist, right outa the oven , and when cooled they get just the whoopie pie texture....
These Cupcake Whoopie Pies , are absoutely soft and moist, right outa the oven , and when cooled they get just the whoopie pie texture....
And while all the baking happens , time to run some warm water and lather up , remember we have dishes too....and yeah i'll fix u some Vanilla coffee.
FULL RECIPE FOR THE RED VELVET WHOOPIE PIES HERE
MARSHMALLOW FLUFF DREAMY FILLING
MARSHMALLOW FLUFF DREAMY FILLING
Cream 4 tbh butter (around 60 grams or 2.5 oz) i used salted butter, with vanilla bean paste or extract + clear butter extract(optional)
Add 1/2 cup confectioners sugar and pinch of salt and beat till smooth and creamy.
Add 3 ounces marshmallow fluff and beat till well blended and smooth.
Pipe or spread on one cookie cake and sandwhich.
I piped in the fluff filling for the W .pies...
I piped in the fluff filling for the W .pies...
I cut out 1 set oh whoopie pie's as u would for a linzer cookie , with a heart cookie cutter , and then sandwiched them together , this way to get to pipe in another star atop:-)
See the Linzer effect filling in there...
Oh i m loving this marshmallow fluff filling...
The little , Cupcake Whoopie Pies...
And a few more , together.....my first WHoopie pie Moments were fantastic...
I want to send these Whoopie Pie's and post to the February Cook off by the lovelt Da at her fantastic blog here and her theme is ''My first Love for food" and this is truly my first whoopie pie moment ever !
February is the month of love i so agree with Da.
ISnt her button cuteeeee...
Oh i m loving this marshmallow fluff filling...
And a few more , together.....my first WHoopie pie Moments were fantastic...
I want to send these Whoopie Pie's and post to the February Cook off by the lovelt Da at her fantastic blog here and her theme is ''My first Love for food" and this is truly my first whoopie pie moment ever !
February is the month of love i so agree with Da.
ISnt her button cuteeeee...
To say that i fell in lovee with these is to say the least.I cant get them off my mind and still deliciously think of that First loveee bite , when i jus got these outa the oven!
I was sad i halved the recipe and i shared them with none , except with family (am safe there coz they arent high on sweets )
As i said above , this is also the first time im baking these and also my first post with Baked :-)
Every morn , since those whoopie pies i crave for them with my coffee.
I wonder why i didn bake these before (oh we find no whoopie pies out here) and well they are heart shaped ....so some more love there....
So Da for u , with loveeee..
I was sad i halved the recipe and i shared them with none , except with family (am safe there coz they arent high on sweets )
As i said above , this is also the first time im baking these and also my first post with Baked :-)
Every morn , since those whoopie pies i crave for them with my coffee.
I wonder why i didn bake these before (oh we find no whoopie pies out here) and well they are heart shaped ....so some more love there....
So Da for u , with loveeee..
Am also sending these , Whoopie pies to Now Serving , For the Best Western Desserts Valentines Special where her dear fren Jan Silverman will be choosing the best desserts.
Am also sending these whoopie pies to Spicie foodie, at the ''Your best recipe" event, aint that logo pic so cute , well she is too.
I definately have another bake @ Valentine's , but incase im late ,wanna wish u all a Bright Sunshine Valentine Day , by 365, love always , joy always ....
With a good sprinkling of Pink and hearts too ..(optional-dis is not important)...
Thats the real meaning of Valentines for me ....and i wish it for u too....
