Mini Snickerdoodle Whoopie Pies Recipe 465

MINI SNICKERDOODLE WHOOPIE PIES RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• 1) Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease two baking sheets, or line them with parchment. 2) To make the cookies: Beat together the shortening, sugar, egg, and vanilla. 3) Combine the dry ingredients. Mix into the shortening mixture alternately with the milk, stirring until well combined. Stir in the cinnamon chips. 4) Drop the batter by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the pans. 5) Bake the cookies for 10 to 13 minutes, until firm to the touch. Cool for 5 minutes, then roll their tops in the cinnamon-sugar. 6) To make the filling: Beat the meringue powder and water until foamy. 7) Beat in the sugar and flavor until blended. 8) Add the butter, beating until fluffy. 9) Working with completely cool cookies, spread a heaping teaspoonful of filling on the flat side of half the cookies. Top with the remaining cookies, flat side towards the filling. Yield: about 45 whoopie pies.

MINI WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line large cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper.
• In medium bowl, beat 2 tablespoons butter and the granulated sugar with electric mixer on low speed until well blended and sandy in texture. Add remaining cookie ingredients except food colors. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until smooth.
• Stir food color into batter as desired to create bright red color. Stir until well blended. Spoon batter into resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut 1/4 inch off corner of each bag. Onto cookie sheets, squeeze bag of batter gently to make about 100 1/2-inch circles of dough (about 1/4 teaspoon each), about 1 inch apart.
• Bake 3 to 5 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool 2 minutes. Gently remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks; cool completely, about 20 minutes.
• In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until well mixed. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating on low speed until incorporated. Increase speed to medium; beat about 1 minute or until smooth.
• For each whoopie pie, spread about 1/2 teaspoon filling on bottom of 1 cookie; place second cookie, bottom side down, on filling. Store loosely covered in refrigerator.

DEVIL'S FOOD WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the first 8 ingredients; beat on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium 2 minutes., Drop batter by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until firm, 10-12 minutes. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., Meanwhile for filling, in a small saucepan, whisk milk and flour until smooth. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook and stir until thickened, 1-2 minutes. Cool completely., In a large bowl, beat butter and shortening until blended. Gradually beat in cooled milk mixture. Beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Refrigerate until chilled. Spread filling on bottoms of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies. Refrigerate leftovers.

WHOOPIE PIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• To Make Cookies: In a large bowl cream 1/2 cup of shortening , 1 cup sugar and 2 egg yolks. (Set egg whites aside for filling.) NOTE: If you don't want to use raw egg white in the filling, leave it out. Substitute 1 whole egg for the 2 egg yolks in the cookie recipe so you don't end up with leftover whites!!
• In a separate bowl sift together 2 cups flour, 5 T cocoa, 1 t baking powder, 1/2 t salt, 1 t baking soda. Add to other mixture alternately with milk, beating well. Add vanilla at the end.
• Drop by large spoonful on greased pan. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Remove to wire rack and cool completely.
• To Make Filling: Beat together 3/4 cup shortening, 2 cups confectioners' sugar, 2 egg whites and dash of salt till light. Add 1 tsp. vanilla.
• To assemble: Spread the flat side of one cookie circle with a spoonful of filling. Top with another.

WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sift together flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside. Line 2 baking pans with Silpats (French nonstick baking mats) or parchment paper. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Beat until well combined. Slowly add dry ingredients. Mix until combined.
• Using a 1-ounce ice cream scoop, place cookies onto lined baking pans, 12 per pan. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool. Repeat with remaining batter.
• Spread 2 tablespoons frosting onto each of 24 cookies. Sandwich together with remaining 24 cookies.

MINI CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt into a medium bowl.
• Beat shortening, sugars, and butter with a mixer on high speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add egg, and beat until mixture is pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Reduce speed to low. Mix in flour mixture in 2 additions, alternating with milk and vanilla, beginning and ending with flour.
• Drop mounds of dough (about 2 teaspoons each) onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing each 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies spring back when lightly touched with a finger, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool on sheets set on wire racks for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks, and let cool completely.
• Transfer whipped ganache to a disposable pastry bag, and snip a 1/2-inch opening. Pipe ganache (2 to 2 1/2 teaspoons each) onto flat sides of half the cookies. Sandwich with remaining cookies, pressing gently.