Delicious Chocolate Whoopie Pies Recipe

Delicious Chocolate Whoopie Pies RecipeHere in Pennsylvania you can walk into hundreds of different bakeries and find a delicious confection called the Chocolate Whoopie Pie. If you’ve never had one before, it’s basically two halves of a chocolate cake-like cookie with a creamy vanilla filling inside. Whoopie Pies take quite some time to make, but they’re oh so good!

Delicious Chocolate Whoopie Pies Recipe

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 medium egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup buttermilk
Prepared whoopie pie filling (see below)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Light spray a whoopie pie baking pan with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl beat together the butter with the brown sugar until creamy.  Add in the egg and vanilla extract. Beat again until smooth.

In another mixing bowl sift together the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda & salt. Beat half of the dry ingredients into the first bowl until combined. Pour the remaining dry ingredients & the buttermilk into the first bowl & beat with an electric mixer until well combined.

Fill each cavity of the Whoopie Pie baking pan 2/3 of the way full. Use a spoon to level off the batter in each cavity. Place baking pan into the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes or until they are done. Remove and let them completely cool.

Whoopie Pie Filling Recipe

6 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 cups. confectioner’s sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
7 oz. marshmallow creme
1 tsp. vanilla extract

In a large mixing bowl beat the butter until creamy. Add in the confectioner’s sugar and salt, beat again. Beat in the marshmallow creme and vanilla extract. Keep beating the mixture until it gets more firm and thicker. It should be light, fluffy and spreadable. If needed, you can refrigerate it for an hour or two to get it to thicken up.

Spread the filling in between two of the cake halves. We add about 1 1/2 tablespoons of filling per whoopie pie. Once you have them filled and assembled, store them in an airtight container.

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