Red, White, and Blue Whoopie Pie Recipe (2024)

Published: Jun 16, 2014 · Modified: Oct 6, 2020 by Krystle Smith · This post may contain affiliate links

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Sweet marshmallow frosting sandwiched between velvety soft cake like cookies.

Ever since I was first allowed to purchase Whoopie Pies at the grocery store bakery, I have been hooked! They are like mini delicious cakes with a pillowy soft marshmallow frosting. They are totally poppable. One will never be enough!

I jazzed these up for the fourth of July. I highly recommend using gel dyes to get the brightest color. This is especially true for red as typical food coloring usually gives a dark pink at best.

Red, White, and Blue Whoopie Pie Recipe

Red, White, and Blue Whoopie Pies

Sweet marhsmallow filling smooshed inside 2 soft cake like cookies.

5 from 4 votes

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 7 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 437kcal

Author: Krystle Smith

Ingredients

For the Whoopie Pies

▢ 2 cups all purpose flour
▢ 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
▢ ½ teaspoon baking soda
▢ ¼ teaspoon salt
▢ ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
▢ 1 cup packed brown sugar
▢ 1 egg at room temperature
▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
▢ ½ cup buttermilk shaken
▢ Red and blue food coloring I used gel food dye

For the Marshmallow Frosting

▢ ½ c. butter or margarine
▢ 1 c. confectioners' sugar
▢ 1 c. Marshmallow Fluff about ½ of a 7 ½-oz. jar
▢ 1 tsp. vanilla

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Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt until combined.
In a separate medium bowl,beat butter and brown sugar together.
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Then beat in the egg and vanilla.
Add buttermilk. Then gradually stir in the flour just until combined.
Divide the batter in half. Add red to one half, and blue to the other half until they reach your desired shade.
Spoon the cookie batter onto the baking sheet. Gently flatten each cookie with a greased hand. Bake for 7-9 minutes. Cool completely.
Mix butter, fluff, and vanilla together. Gradually stir in powdered sugar. Spread or pipe frosting onto half of the cookies.

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Comments

DS says
July 01, 2016 at 6:40 am
I can’t wait to make these for 4th of July! My only problem is that I don’t think I’ll have time to make the whole recipe before the picnic. What is the best way to make them ahead of time? Bake and freeze in advance (cookie only, or whole thing)? Or will they store well for a day or two? Thanks!
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- admin says
  October 18, 2016 at 10:34 pm
  Ach just caught this in the spam folder! 🙁 Hope you enjoyed!
  In case anyone else has the same question: I wouldn’t freeze the frosting,but the cookies would be fine in an air tight container with wax paper between the layers.
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Cynthia/What A Girl Eats says
June 05, 2015 at 8:54 pm
What a clever idea for the fourth of july!
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- admin says
  July 01, 2015 at 10:44 pm
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  Thank you Cynthia! An early Happy 4th to you and your family!
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Kayley | The Kitchen McCabe says
July 05, 2014 at 10:29 pm
Thank you so much for linking to my whoopie pies! I love your patriotic take on them! xox
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 8:36 pm
  My pleasure. Thanks Kayley! 🙂
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Mallory @ Chocolate with Grace says
July 05, 2014 at 7:45 pm
These are so fun and festive!
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 9:14 pm
  Thanks so much Mallory. Hope you had a great 4th of July! 🙂
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Alex says
July 05, 2014 at 6:33 pm
These are beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 10:15 pm
  Thanks a lot Alex! 🙂
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Briana says
July 01, 2014 at 9:51 pm
About how many does the recipe make
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 10:40 pm
  Hi Briana,
  Around 12-15(mine were pretty big and I got 12)
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dina says
June 30, 2014 at 12:45 pm
all you patriotic recipes are so great. i love these whoopie pies!
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 10:49 pm
  Thank you Dina that means a lot to me!
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Vedika @ Hot Chocolate Hits says
June 30, 2014 at 7:14 am
What a cool idea! Thanks for sharing.
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- admin says
  July 06, 2014 at 10:51 pm
  Thank you Vedika!
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Averie @ Averie Cooks says
June 17, 2014 at 12:35 am
Thanks for the whoopie pie linky love! Your pies look so fun!
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- admin says
  June 24, 2014 at 9:47 pm
  My pleasure. Thanks so much Averie -fangirlscream-. Love your site! 🙂
  Reply

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