Red and blue velvet whoopee pies with cream cheese filling – Food & Home Magazine

Ingredients

• Whoopee pies
• 270g salted butter, soft
• 225g castor sugar
• seeds of 1 vanilla pod
• 165g crème fraîche
• 2 eggs
• 15ml (1 tbsp) cocoa powder
• 375g self-raising flour, sieved
• few drops red gel food colouring (available at specialist baking stores)
• few drops royal blue gel food colouring (available at specialist baking stores)
• Cream cheese filling
• 200g salted butter, soft
• 300g icing sugar, sieved
• 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract
• 100g white chocolate, melted
• 230g cream cheese, at room temperature