Halloween Whoopie Pies Recipes

HALLOWEEN WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat 1/2 cup butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg; beat until smooth. With mixer on low, alternately add flour mixture and applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix just until smooth (do not overmix).
• Drop dough by heaping tablespoons, 2 inches apart, onto two baking sheets. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cookie comes out clean, 10 to 14 minutes. With a thin metal spatula, immediately transfer cookies to a wire rack; let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make filling: In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat vanilla and remaining 1/2 cup butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add confectioners sugar, beating until smooth.
• Spread bottom of half the cookies with 1 tablespoon filling each; sandwich with remaining cookies, pressing gently so filling oozes out slightly. Sprinkle exposed filling with nonpareils. Let rest 15 minutes to set.

HALLOWEEN COOKIES AND CREAM WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Pulse the cookies in a food processor to fine crumbs. Remove 1/3 cup crumbs to a medium bowl and reserve the remaining crumbs for the filling.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda into the medium bowl with the 1/3 cup crumbs. Set aside.
• Beat together the sugar, butter and vanilla in a large bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and beat until combined. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture; beat after each addition until just combined.
• Spoon 2 tablespoon-mounds of the batter (a 1-ounce ice cream scoop works well here) onto the prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. You should have about 12 cookies per baking sheet.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheets halfway through, until the tops of the cookies spring back when lightly touched, 14 to 16 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely, about 30 minutes. Reserve the parchment-lined baking sheets.
• While the cookies cool, prepare the filling. Spray a measuring cup and rubber spatula with nonstick cooking spray, then measure out the marshmallow cream and transfer to a medium bowl. Add the cream cheese and orange gel food coloring and combine using a handheld electric mixer. Gently fold in the remaining sandwich cookie crumbs.
• Flip half of the cooled cookies so they are flat-side up; spread each with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese filling. Sandwich them with the remaining cookies flat-side down.
• Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stirring halfway through, 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds. Dip half of each whoopie pie into the chocolate, letting the excess drip off into the bowl, immediately dip into the sprinkles, then place on the parchment-lined baking sheets to harden, about 15 minutes.

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.

LET'S MAKE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and baking soda. In large bowl, with mixer on high speed, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla, and beat to combine. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk in small batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Mix until smooth, occasionally scraping sides of bowl. With a tablespoon, spoon mounds of batter 2 inches apart onto baking sheets and form into football shapes. SmartGrid® lines represent 1 inch squares to help you with precise spacing.
• Bake 15 minutes or until tops are puffed and cakes spring back when touched. Transfer to a rack and cool completely.
• In medium bowl, with mixer on high speed, beat together butter, powdered sugar, marshmallow cream, and vanilla until smooth, about 3 minutes. Makes about 1 1/2 cups of filling. Spread a rounded tablespoon of filling on flat sides of half the cakes. Top with other cakes.
• To decorate your whoopie pies to look like footballs, cut two pieces of Reynolds KITCHENS® Plastic Wrap about 15 inches wide and criss-cross them over each other to form a large X. In the center of the X, scoop all of your remaining filling and then gather the sides to push the filling down into a ball. Very carefully poke a small hole into the bottom of this ball so that you can pipe the football laces onto your whoopie pies. The thickness of your laces will depend on how big of a hole you poke into the plastic wrap.