I like burgers too much.
Mmmmm burgers…
But wait!
Of course today is April Fool’s Day, and the burgers are actually whoopie pies.
Mmmm chocolate burgers.
Who needs meat when you can have chocolate??
Hamburger Whoopie Pies
(makes 12 circles)
Based on these: S’mores Whoopie Pies.
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- scant 1 tsp vinegar
- 1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour (or white flour)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- just over 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup evaporated cane juice (or white sugar)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons applesauce
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons oil (coconut or canola/veg)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 375 F. Mix vinegar into milk, and set aside. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients and mix very well. Then put all the other liquid ingredients into the vinegar mixture and stir. Pour wet into dry, and stir to combine. Drop tiny circles (a little over the size of a silver dollar) onto 1 or 2 cookie trays. (Or, if you have a whoopie pie maker, you can use that!) Bake around 8 minutes.
For the fixins:
Feel free to get creative. I used strawberries to represent tomatoes. For the green frosting (i.e. the spinach!), I used the following recipe:
- 2/3 cup Mori-Nu silken-firm tofu (140 g) (I’m sure soft-silken would work too!)
- 6 tablespoons raw cashew butter or coconut butter
- scant 1/8th tsp salt
- small handful spinach (You can’t taste it! But if you doubt me, you can use food coloring instead.)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener to taste (stevia, agave, sugar, etc.)
Blend everything in a blender, food processor, or Magic Bullet cup. This frosting is thicker when cold, so it’s a good idea to make it up ahead of time. But don’t frost the whoopie pies until just before serving (or frost them and then store in the fridge). I put the frosting in a plastic bag and cut a tiny hole in the side to squirt it out.
**For a soy-free frosting, add the vanilla extract and spinach to the following recipe (and sub the pb for coconut butter or raw cashew butter): Soy-Free Frosting.
For the chocolate:
You can use your favorite hot fudge sauce, chocolate frosting, or melted chocolate chips. Or you can even make vegan brownies and cut out circles for your burgers.
I used my favorite chocolate recipe: Hot Chocolate Butter.
Question of the Day:
Have you ever played an April Fools joke?
Also, does anyone have a good joke idea I can use on my roommate? I thought about setting the clocks back two hours, but she’s not working today so she probably wouldn’t even notice or care!
P.S. No, I didn’t expect to fool you with my obviously-not-real burgers. I realize not everyone is as gullible as I am. (Last year, I fell for Vegnews’ tweet that Paula Deen was turning vegan and signed on to be a spokesperson for Earth Balance!)
“who needs meat when you can have chocolate?” exactly!!!
You are the only person who got me today (from the title on twitter). I thought maybe you were going to start using milk for some reason. lol. These look super cute.
Ahh you got me! Had me worries for a second there LOL
Woa,you got me:)) I was shocked reading the title!!! I´m not good with pranks and April fool´s day so I´m always the one who gets fooled easily. Thanks God you´re still vegan,really;))
First off, adorable recipe. Secondly, I played a great AFJ on my mom years ago when I told her that one of my cousins was either engaged or pregnant (literally, this was years ago, so I don’t remember) but we were at a restaurant and she almost spit her drink out! I think it was because it was JUST believable enough (they had been together long enough) but also so random that I would know and she wouldn’t. Another good one that I’ve hear of is putting just enough food coloring into something to make it look a little bit wonky. In college, just for fun a not for a real reason, my brother and his friends stole one of their other friends’ bed, which I always thought was pretty silly and quite harmless.
I love the food coloring idea! Definitely going to have to remember that one!
I put food colouring into my brothers milk one time to make it look kinda yellowish… and he was pouring it into his cereal and totally freaked out!
These are so cute! I should have known you’d come up with such a lovely way to celebrate April Fools Day 🙂
Love your blog by the way. I’ve never commented but have made numerous recipes over the years. You are very inspiring!
Very cute! I’m new to your site. Everything looks so yummy! I made your chocolate cookie dough boatmeal recipe and it was amazing. Cain’t wait to try more. Next up will be the peanut butter fudge. I was wondering how many servings that recipe makes? Thanks for sharing your healthy sweet tooth with all if us!
I’ve been following your blog for a little while now, but just haven’t written until today. I knew right away that it had to be April Fools, because I read your “about me” and knew how passionate you were about your vegan lifestyle. 😉 But I think these burgers look delicious!
You got me! I saw the first sentence in my google reader and thought this was going to be a serious post about how you decided to no longer be vegan! haha
Lmao I wasn’t even thinking that it was April Fools’ Day. Cute whoopie pies <3