These Are Hearts - Trust Me

My very creative friend had a great idea - red velvet heart-shaped whoopie pies. Outstanding! As soon as I read her email I started mulling over the idea. I've never been all that successful with red velvet but then again, I've really only tried once. I saw a recipe on the Better Homes & Gardens site at Christmas so I decided to give it a go. I made the cake recipe here and it makes a rather thick cake. If you tried my chocolate whoopie pie recipe you know I'm partial to something a bit more light. But what the heck, I plowed ahead. The batter tasted delicious so I put it in a pastry bag and piped hearts with it. Trust me, these are hearts and not butts. My color is slightly off, probably because my only cocoa on hand is dark chocolate and that is too dark for these. I'd recommend the regular cocoa. I couldn't make the filling recipe that BHG suggests because I didn't have any marshmallow fluff/creme on hand so I turned to Magnolia and used their red velvet cream cheese frosting recipe. My lesson there is that the frosting is too thin to work well as a filling for a whoopie pie. Overall I rate these as a semi-success. They taste good but I need to work on creating a lighter cake and a fluffier filling to get the textures right for a whoopie pie. This is a project that I will certainly make again, with a few modifications. I hope you try these and please let me know how yours turn out!