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!)
Actually yesterday i made the fake chocolate reeces eggs for a party, and with the leftovers i filled a tiny hole with tabasco sauce and smoothed it over. I am going to have my mom and brother eat them! They never saw the actual eggs so hopefully they won’t think it looks weird!
haha…. EVIL! 🙂
Hi katie
i love your blog ! Best recipes ever ! You should consider doing a cookbook with lots of different sections and menus at the end ,like: dessert for two,Kids favorites, breakfast treats, by seasons … I really hope you take this into consideration because every time I go to look for a recipe on your site I end up browsing for hours. I don’t like procrastinating !
Truly
Ha, too funny!! These are adorable 😀
Hahaha all I saw was your facebook update that said “Why I’m no longer vegan.”, not the picture. With the recent flux of vegan bloggers turning to more vegetarian (Mama Pea, Happy Herbivore) I thought it was definitely possible!
This is really creative!
I really don’t think so. HH just doesn’t like the vegan label because she doesn’t like getting yelled at by the vegan police. She does eat honey, I think, but so do a lot of vegans. And I haven’t found anything about Mama Pea no longer being vegan. I have her first cookbook. If you’ve seen the postings, please send them my way. Thanks 🙂
Haha, good for you! I got an email this morning from a Groupon-type site offering the chance to carry the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony, plus a tour of the stadium with Daley Thompson etc – and nearly got taken in 🙂
When April Fools’ Day fell on a Thursday (the day the paper I work for comes out) the other year, I wrote a piece saying a historic tower in the town was going to be converted into a power station – and it took loads of people in!
I must say that I am completely gullible. When I saw the subject line of this post in my email, I practically fell out of my chair. Or, would have if I wasn’t sitting on the floor.
The whoopie pies look amazing!
I almost fell for it… almost. 😉 The whoopie pie looks yummy! I’ve never had one! Ever!
Cute idea! These would be perfect to make for a kids birthday part! Fun food always tastes better 🙂
You got me! LOL! I’ve never had a whoopie pie… but I really want to try one! Yours look fantastic!
I got my mom a few years back by putting a stickey note on the laser thing at the bottom of a computer mouse (and then it doesn’t work). The note said happy april fools day. She’s not very technology-advanced and thought that the whole computer was broken! Hah!
My friend once totally got me by telling me this bogus story about how Canadians aren’t going to be saying “eh” anymore but “ah”. I fell for it 🙁
You goose! That was super-cute. April fool’s day is a tricky one around our house– you just NEVER know how a joke will be perceived by someone on the autism spectrum, and I want my kids to be happy, not stressed out! For this reason, we do a well-planned silly day of pizza for breakfast and pancakes for dinner. It’s also Palm Sunday this year, so the April fool was on yours truly if I thought my sons could sit quietly in church without sword fighting when they have palm branches in their hands! 😛