Chocolate Whoopie Pies
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
7-8 Whoopie Pies
- Serves:
- 7-8
ingredients
-
For the Cookies
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1⁄4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
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For the Filling
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 1⁄3 cups marshmallow creme
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 teaspoon table salt, dissolved in
- 1 tablespoon water
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Lightly grease or parchment line two baking sheets.
- To Make cookies:.
- Cream together shortening, brown sugar, egg in a large bowl.
- Whisk together cocoa, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in another bowl.
- In a third bowl, mix vanilla and milk.
- Alternate adding dry ingredients and milk mixture to the shortening mixture, beating until smooth.
- Drop stiff batter by the 1/4 cupful onto prepared sheets, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake cookies for 15 minutes, until they are firm to the touch.
- Cool completely on cooling racks.
- To make filling:.
- Beat all of the ingredients together in a medium bowl.
- Assemble by spreading about 1/4 c filling on half of the cookies and top with the remaining cookies.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
dogsandwoods
Sarasota, Florida