A fresh raspberry buttercream is sandwiched between two soft & chewy blue velvet cake mix cookies in these perfectly patriotic Blue Velvet & Raspberry Buttercream Cookiewiches...
My luck with bringing patriotic recipe ideas to fruition hasn't been very good in the past couple of years.
Until today, I literally had one- just one- 4th of July themed recipe on the blog.
My Red, White, & Berry Cupcakes are fun & absolutely delicious, but you will have to excuse the photos if you click over to take a peek at them.
But after those cupcakes, my red, white, & blue recipe mojo went kaput.
Some of you all may recall the Patriotic Pie Fail from last summer. It looked amazing and like a real winner before I cut into it... but after I cut into? One big delicious, goopy mess.
And I was about to give up on this Fourth of July as well. Two recipe fails in a row this month- one was a burnt tart and the other was cake bars that refused to bake all the way through and set up.
(If you happen to follow me on Instagram, you were probably a firsthand witness to those recipe flops of mine.) I was about to throw the towel in and finally accept my fate that I was not meant to publish another patriotic inspired recipe ever again on the blog.
But then inspiration struck...
I spied Duncan Hines Blue Velvet Cake Mix on the grocery store shelf... and then my mind wandered to the White Chocolate Peeps Cookiewiches I made in April... and BOOM! :)
Why not make cookiewiches with blue velvet cookies?
And sure, I could have just made a plain ole buttercream and colored it red and called it a day, but what fun is that? ;)
So instead, I sandwiched a sweet & tart fresh raspberry buttercream between the cookies.
And whoa! Just whoa, folks...
I brought these cookiewiches to my parents' Father's Day cookout for taste testing and went home with just one cookiewich from the dozen, so I will deem this one a patriotic recipe success! :)
I will be taking a little vacation from the blog this week as I will be heading somewhere sunny, warm, and a just a little sandy with my family. ;) But I will have some fabulous and very talented food blogger friends taking over Frugal Foodie Mama for me until I get back.
Seriously, all- I cannot wait to introduce you to this creative ladies and for you all to see the amazing recipes they will be sharing here!
Please be sure to give them a very warm welcome and help them feel at home... :)
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