Valentine’s Day holiday season is coming up and our Red Velvet Whoopie Pie Sandwich Cookies is the perfect dessert recipe to make and enjoy with the perfect red velvet cookies paired with a delicious homemade cream cheese frosting.
The best thing about this recipe is that since you use a red velvet cake mix, not only do you not have to mess with red food coloring, but you will get great cakey cookies still with that beautiful red color.
So, if you love soft cookies with delicious cream cheese frosting, this red velvet recipe is the great recipe you need!
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Red Velvet Whoopie Pie Sandwich Cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
Cookies
- 15.25 ounces cake mix Red Velvet
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- ½ cup vegetable oil
Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar more or less for consistency
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to make Red Velvet Whoopie Pie Sandwich Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 375 ℉.
- Mix together the cake mix, eggs, and oil in a large bowl. Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops start to crack, about 8 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, butter, milk, and vanilla. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing well with each addition. If consistency is too stiff, add more milk.
- Spread a generous amount of icing on the bottom of a cookie, sandwich it with another cookie, pressing firmly so that the icing comes all the way out to the edge. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
Storage Suggestions
If you manage to not eat the whole tray of cookies immediately, these Red Velvet Whoopie Pie Sandwich Cookies store well. Once cookies have completely cooled, here is how you can store them:
- Refrigerator: Store in an airtight container in a single layer for up to 7 days in a refrigerator.
Tips for making the best red velvet sandwich cookies:
- Use a cookie scoop to keep the cookie size and shape consistent which makes it easier to make this red velvet whoopie pies recipe.
- Want to make these cookies even yummier? I added 1/2 cup of sweetened flaked coconut to my frosting the second time I made them and it was so good. If you love coconut, I highly recommend it!
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- Valentine Sugar Cookies
Red Velvet Whoopie Pie Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 15.25 ounces cake mix, Red Velvet
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup vegetable oil
Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar, more or less for consistency
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 ℉.
- Mix together the cake mix, eggs, and oil in a large bowl. Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops start to crack, about 8 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, butter, milk, and vanilla. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing well with each addition. If consistency is too stiff, add more milk.
- Spread a generous amount of icing on the bottom of a cookie, sandwich it with another cookie, pressing firmly so that the icing comes all the way out to the edge. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
Notes
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They look delicious!
Ha, I used y’all’s original cake box cookie recipe and have made a ton of different varieties of cookies with it, including RV whoopie pies! They are always a hit!
Hi,
I don’t see the bourbon in the ingredient list, but it is mentioned in the directions. Can’t wait to make these!
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As I kid, I couldn’t eat enough Whoopie Pies!!!!
And these look and sound delicious!
Hi Sandra! I didn’t mean to type bourbon . . . ha ha! I have heard that 1 T of bourbon tastes amazing in cake mix cookies, but I have never tried it. 🙂 Let me know if you do and if you like it!
These look so delicious!!!
Oh how I love Red Velvet!
These look so yummy!
I can’t believe I’ve never made whoopie pies before!! These red velvet ones look SO good! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
Do these have to be put in the fridge due to the cream cheese frosting?
I made these last week and they were sooo yummy! The two comments I’d make: (1) the filling didn’t turn out as thick as I thought it would. It wasn’t actually runny, but it was somewhat runny and I had to put the whoopee pies in the fridge after I sandwiched them so the filling wouldn’t ooze out the sides. I’m in Texas, so the humidity may have had something to do with that, I don’t know. (2) The next time I make these, I think I’ll cut the filling recipe by 1/3 or so because I had a ton left over.
But yes, these were so good and were a big hit!!
I truly relish whilst I go through your blogs and articles
These are awesome!! Thanks so much for posting this!
Stopping by from Katherine’s Corner Blog hop. These look yum!
These look divine!!
My son and I just finished making your red velvet whoopie pie cookies for his class for red ribbon week! They are amazing and so easy to make! Thanks for posting. May just be our new favorite cookie! Will defiantly be making these again!!!!
Have made these on several occasions they are just wonderful. My problem is once they come out of the oven they fall flat, how do I get them not to fall flat?
Hi Shirley,
This recipe is very similar to our Homemade Oreo Cookies. They both use a cake mix. With the oreos, you add 2 eggs and 3/4 cups shortening to the cake mix. Where the red velvet cookies call for 1/2 cup veg oil. I’m sorry they are going flat. Do they looker thinner than our cookies in the picture? Only mix until combined. Try no extra mixing. I’m just trying to pull out all of the tricks I know for flat cookies. 🙂
I loved these! They’re very easy and fun to make. One thing I would say is that the cream cheese frosting doesn’t need 3 cups of sugar. I added 1.5 cups of sugar so it wouldn’t overpower the cream cheese and it was delicious. Overall great recipe and I would try again😋
Easy enough, BUT my red velvet cake mix (Betty Crocker) only had 13.25 oz. Good thing I noticed before trying to bake these! After consulting with ChatGPT on the adjustments, I added 2T of flour. I substituted lard for the vegetable oil and these came out great!
For the person who noted runny frosting – that used to happen to me all the time until I realized that 1/3 less fat cream cheese should not be substituted!