Classic Chocolate Whoopie Pie Food

CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425. Lightly coat cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whoopie Pies: In a mixing bowl, beat sugar and oil until crumbly. Add eggs and beat well. In separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
• Gradually beat flour mixture into sugar mixture. Add milk and mix together well.
• With lightly lightly floured hands, roll dough into 1 1/2" balls. Place balls 2" apart onto cookie sheets lightly sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Flatten balls slightly with bottom of lightly greased flat-bottom glass.
• Bake at 425 for 5-6 minutes or until tops are cracked. Cool for 3 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool.
• Filling: In a mixing bowl, beat together butter and confectioners' sugar. Beat in milk and extract until fluffy.
• Pipe filling using pastry bag (or spread w/ knife) on to flat bottom of cooled whoopie pie and top with another whoopie pie to make a sandwich.

CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together into a bowl. Set aside.
• In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, beat the shortening and granulated sugar together for about 3 minutes, or until light and fluffy.
• Add the egg and vanilla, then continue to beat until blended.
• Add about one-third each of the flour mixture and buttermilk; beat until blended. Add another one-third of the flour mixture and the remaining buttermilk; beat until blended. Add the remaining flour mixture and beat until blended. Cover the bowl, then chill the batter for 1 to 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 350 F and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Scoop mounds of batter-about 1 1/2 tablespoons for each cookie-onto the parchment paper, leaving about 2 inches between them.
• Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes, or just until firm. Remove the pan to a rack and let the cookies cool while you prepare the filling. Prepare the Marshmallow Filling and Assemble
• Gather the filling ingredients.
• In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, beat the shortening and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the marshmallow fluff, vanilla extract, and salt to the bowl; beat until fluffy.
• To assemble the whoopie pies, spread or pipe the marshmallow filling onto the flat side of a cookie. Top with another cookie, flat-side down. Repeat with the remaining cookies and filling.

OLD-FASHIONED WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine cocoa and water. Cool for 5 minutes. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in the eggs, vanilla and cocoa mixture. Combine dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition , To form each cookie, drop 2 tablespoons 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake until firm to the touch, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. , For filling, in a small saucepan, combine flour and salt. Gradually whisk in milk until smooth; cook and stir over medium-high heat until thickened, 5-7 minutes. Remove from heat. Cover and refrigerate until completely cool. , In a small bowl, cream the shortening, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add milk mixture; beat until fluffy, about 7 minutes. Spread filling on half the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Store in the refrigerator.

CLASSIC CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 375ºF. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt on a sheet of waxed paper. In the work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, shortening, and brown sugar on low until just combined. Increase speed to medium; beat for 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla; beat 2 more minutes.
• Add half of flour mixture and half of milk to batter; beat briefly on low. Beat in remaining flour mixture and milk.
• Using a spoon, drop batter 1 Tbsp at a time onto one of the baking sheets, spacing at least 2 inches apart. Bake one sheet at a time for about 10 minutes, or until pies spring back when pressed gently. Remove from oven; let pies cool on sheet for 5 minutes; transfer to a rack to finish cooling.
• To make filling: Beat Fluff and shortening for 3 minutes on medium. Reduce speed to low, and add sugar and vanilla. Beat until incorporated. Increase speed to medium; beat until fluffy.
• Sandwich filling between the flat sides of two pies; repeat.

BEST-EVER CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Prepare cake batter as directed on package except reduce the water to 3/4 cup. Add dry pudding mix and melted chocolate; mix well. Drop 2 Tbsp. batter, 2 inches apart, into 32 mounds on baking sheets.
• Bake 14 to 16 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out almost clean. Cool on baking sheets 3 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Beat cream cheese and marshmallow creme in large bowl with mixer until blended. Gently stir in COOL WHIP.
• Place bottom sides of 2 cookies together for each whoopie pie, spreading about 2 Tbsp. COOL WHIP mixture between cookies.