The ultimate Whoopie Pies – perfectly chocolatey, super soft together with fluffy too filled alongside a luscious marshmallow fluff whoopie pie filling. Each bite of these decadent cake-like cookies truly just melts away in your oral cavity!
Do y'all have a weakness for chocolate? Also attempt my favorite Chocolate Cake, this irresistible Edible Chocolate Cookie Dough (amongst 2 other season options) and my go-to Brownies. February is national chocolate lovers month later all then we’d amend celebrate.
The delicious whoopie pie (too known every bit Gobs what a funny name)!
You’ll find a many variations of this New England as well as Pennsylvania favorite. But the almost mutual chocolate version you’ll discover online seems to live a butter based cookie.
This in my opinion creates more than of a dense and dry cookie, but for whoopie pies I’1000 all virtually keeping them calorie-free as well as fluffy (that classic Amish way). So I go amongst a vegetable fossil oil together with water based batter, merely like a classic chocolate cake which these cookies are mimicking.
And traditional filling is ordinarily made upwardly of raw egg whites (which I’m fine eating myself just not comfortable serving to other people) in addition to shortening (which I’m not a fan of altogether). So I instead I get with a shop-bought marshmallow fluff and butter to make upward the season as well as texture of the filling.
What make these Whoopie Pies sense of taste like? Well of class chocolate cake, or something like to a Ding Dong only manifestly a hundred times amend!
They’re rich as well as deeply chocolatey, they’re perfectly moist and that fluffy marshmallow whoopie pie filling keeps that low-cal every bit air texture going throughout.
These are such a dreamy, slow to make sandwich cookie you lot’ll get requests for fourth dimension together with fourth dimension once more!
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Ingredients Needed for Chocolate Whoopie Pies and Filling (Plus Substitutes)
- All-use flour – I recommend using unbleached flour but the standard bleached all-purpose flour will function as well.
- Unsweetened cocoa pulverisation – use proficient quality cocoa for the best tasting cookies.
- Baking soda – this helps the cookies rising. Use baking soda that hasn’t expired then ensure it industrial plant properly.
- Salt – this volition continue the cookies from tasting flat, don’t forget it!
- Light chocolate-brown saccharide – inwards a pinch you can brand your ain dark-brown carbohydrate. To do measure out 1 loving cup white carbohydrate, omit 1 Tbsp in addition to replace alongside ane Tbsp molasses, mix well.
- Buttermilk – don’t go along buttermilk on mitt? You tin brand your ain just mix i/2 cup milk alongside one 1/ii tsp vinegar or lemon juice. Rest five minutes.
- Vegetable petroleum – canola petroleum volition go fine also.
- Egg – the egg helps bind the ingredients together, only if at that place is an allergy you lot tin can bank check these substitutes hither.
- Vanilla extract – vanilla bean paste (equal amounts) tin live used as well.
- Hot H2O – just hot from the tap is fine no need to rut.
For the filling y'all’ll besides demand:
- Butter – I function both unsalted in addition to salted to residuum out the sweetness of the filling. I don’t like to add common salt separately because it doesn’t dissolve well.
- Marshmallow fluff (aka marshmallow creme) – if you lot’d like you lot could but skip the filling recipe altogether and supersede amongst a homemade marshmallow fluff.
- Powdered sugar – this sweetens too thickens upwardly the filling. Unfortunately alongside this super fine, powdery texture in that location aren’t whatsoever not bad substitutes for powdered saccharide (aka confectioners saccharide) in frosting together with fillings similar then.
How to Make Whoopie Pies
- Prepare oven together with baking sheets: Set over racks in upper too lower third of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line eighteen past thirteen-inch baking sheets with parchment newspaper, fix aside.
- Whisk dry ingredients: In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa pulverisation, baking soda too salt.
- Mix wet ingredients: In a large mixing bowl using an electrical mitt mixer or inwards the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment mix together brownish carbohydrate, buttermilk, vegetable petroleum, egg as well as vanilla extract until good blended.
- Blend wet and dry mixtures: Add flour mixture in addition to mix just until combined, and so pour inward hot H2O in addition to mix just until combined.
- Drop batter onto prepared baking sheets: Scoop batter out using a medium cookie scoop or 1 ane/two Tbsp at a time, as well as driblet onto prepared baking sheets, spacing 2-inches apart.
- Bake until gear up: Bake offset ii sheets at a in one case, rotating sheets halfway through baking, until cookies leap back when touched or toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, almost eight – x minutes full.
- Cool completely: Let cool near v minutes then use a spatula to transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Bake remaining concluding canvas of cookies in centre of the oven, well-nigh 8 – 10 minutes.
How to Make Whoopie Pie Filling
- Cream butter and carbohydrate: Cream In the bowl of an electrical stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or using a mitt mixer) cream together unsalted butter, salted butter in addition to powdered sugar on depression speed until good combined.
- Whip till fluffy: Increase mixer speed to high too whip until until lite and fluffy, most four minutes. Blend in vanilla.
- Fold inward marshmallow fluff: Remove bowl from stand mixer, add marshmallow fluff as well as plication together using a safety spatula only until combined.
- Chill filling: chill mixture well-nigh 20 minutes to thicken upwards then bend again.
- Fill cookies: Transfer to a pipe pocketbook fitted with a large round tip too piping over half of the cookies, sandwich a instant cookie over the elevation.
How to Store Whoopie Pies
- Store them inwards an airtight container set on parchment newspaper (I similar to shop on a baking sheet covered amongst a lid).
- Keep inwards the refrigerator upwards to 3 days.
- Let remainder at room temperature virtually thirty minutes earlier serving to let filling in addition to cookies soften upward a scrap.
Tips for the Best Whoopie Pies
- Don’t over-mix the batter for a fluffy texture. Same amongst the filling.
- If cocoa is lumpy hither, in addition to only nigh anytime when baking, sift it commencement.
- If brown carbohydrate is clumpy interruption upwards those clumps alongside your fingertips earlier using. You may likewise one to reckon purchasing ane of those clay dark-brown carbohydrate disks to assist go on it moist.
- Chill filling a bit earlier adding to the cookies together with keep it cool otherwise it will live runny. The fridge helps business firm the butter back up making for a slightly firmer filling.
- It summertime months continue these away from the estrus, not a cookie yous desire to serve at an outdoor lunch political party unless serving from a cooler.
- Store in a unmarried layer, no stacking. They’ll kickoff to stick together since they’re moist as well as the filling volition become flattened together with work out the sides otherwise.
Possible Variations
- Use Dutch cocoa for fifty-fifty richer season.
- Go for a classic egg white whoopie pie filling at your own discretion (no serving to elderly, children as well as meaning women).
- Use a unlike season of filling like cream cheese, caramel, coconut, chocolate or peanut butter. Or merely flavour the filling recipe with a fiddling extract similar coconut extract.
- Fill alongside sweetened whipped cream instead.
- Add one tsp of second espresso pulverisation to the batter.
- For a filling less prone to running simply use buttercream frosting, i/two batch of vanilla buttercream or chocolate buttercream.
- For a festive cookie during the vacation flavour, add a picayune peppermint extract to batter or filling as well as curlicue edges of filling inwards finely crushed candy canes for peppermint whoopie pies.
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Whoopie Pies
The ultimate Whoopie Pies - perfectly chocolatey, super soft too fluffy together with filled with a luscious marshmallow cream whoopie pie filling. Each seize with teeth of these decadent cake-like cookies really merely melts away in your oral fissure!
Servings: 17
Ingredients
Cookies
- two cups (283g) unbleached all-role flour* (scoop as well as grade to mensurate)
- ane/ii cup (45g) unsweetened cocoa pulverization (scoop too degree to measure out)
- ane tsp baking soda
- 1/ii tsp table salt
- i loving cup packed (200g) lite brown dark-brown saccharide, interruption up any clumps
- one/2 loving cup (120ml) buttermilk (no buttermilk substitutes!)
- 1/2 loving cup (120ml) vegetable crude oil
- i large egg
- 1 i/two tsp vanilla extract
- i/two loving cup (120ml) hot H2O
Filling
- eight Tbsp (113g) salted butter, at room temperature
- six Tbsp (85g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ii 1/four cups (270g) powdered sugar
- ane tsp vanilla extract
- x oz. marshmallow fluff (aka marshmallow creme, nigh i and one-half 7 oz. jars)
Instructions
- Set oven racks inwards upper too lower tertiary of the oven as well as preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line eighteen by thirteen-inch baking sheets alongside parchment paper, fix aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a big mixing bowl using an electrical manus mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted amongst the paddle attachment mix together chocolate-brown carbohydrate, buttermilk, vegetable rock oil, egg as well as vanilla extract until good blended.
- Add flour mixture together with mix simply until combined, then pour inward hot H2O in addition to mix but until combined.
- Scoop batter out using a medium cookie scoop or i ane/two Tbsp at a time, in addition to drib onto prepared baking sheets, spacing two-inches apart.
- Bake first ii sheets at a one time, rotating sheets halfway through baking, until cookies bound dorsum when touched or toothpick inserted into eye comes out make clean, most viii - ten minutes total.
- Let cool nigh v minutes and so role a spatula to transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Bake remaining last canvas of cookies inward middle of the oven, most 8 - ten minutes.
For the filling
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted amongst the paddle attachment (or using a manus mixer) cream together salted butter, unsalted butter as well as powdered sugar on low speed until good combined.
- Increase mixer speed to high too whip until until low-cal together with fluffy, about iv minutes. Blend inwards vanilla.
- Remove bowl from stand mixer, add together marshmallow fluff and plication together using a condom spatula just until combined.
- Chill mixture nearly xx minutes to thicken upwardly and then bend once again. Transfer to a piping handbag fitted with a big circular tip as well as pipage over one-half of the cookies, sandwich a instant cookie over the top.
- Store cookies in an airtight container assault parchment paper, inward a unmarried layer inward the refrigerator upwards to three days. Let residue at room temperature nigh xxx minutes earlier serving.
Notes
- A few reviewers have mentioned issues with batter being too runny. Be certain you lot are properly measurement the flour in addition to cocoa - it should live scooped correct from the parcel together with leveled off non spooned and leveled (or better all the same purpose a scale). If you lot are worried nigh it but include in addition to extra 1/iv loving cup flour for thicker batter.
Possible Variations:
- Use Dutch cocoa for even richer season.
- Use a dissimilar flavor of filling like cream cheese, caramel, coconut, chocolate or peanut butter. Or simply flavor the filling recipe with a footling extract like coconut extract.
- Fill with sweetened whipped cream instead.
- Add one tsp of second espresso pulverization to the batter.
- For a filling less prone to running only purpose buttercream frosting, 1/ii batch of vanilla buttercream or chocolate buttercream.
- For a festive cookie during the holiday season, add together a petty peppermint extract to batter or filling as well as gyre edges of filling inwards finely crushed candy canes for peppermint whoopie pies.
Nutrition Facts
Whoopie Pies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 383
Calories from Fat 162
% Daily Value*
Fat 18g28%
Saturated Fat 12g75%
Cholesterol 39mgthirteen%
Sodium 200mgnine%
Potassium 88mgthree%
Carbohydrates 56gxix%
Fiber 1gfour%
Sugar 38g42%
Protein 2gfour%
Vitamin A 334IU7%
Calcium 28mgthree%
Iron 1mghalf-dozen%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates entirely. See total disclaimer here.