Chocolate Whoopie Pies for 15-25 pie depending on size.
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup dark chocolate cocoa powder (hersheys)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
dash of salt
4 T room temperature salted butter
4 T shortening (obviously vegetable)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 room temperature egg
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup room temp milk (fat free works)
Preheat oven to 375 and line baking sheets with parchment. Sift together
flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Cream butter, shortening and sugar
til super duper fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and mix thoroughly. Add
half the milk and mix. Add half the flour and mix. Add remaining milk
and mix. Add flour and mix lightly til combined. Using a springloaded
little thingy. What are they called? spring loaded scoop? scooper?
scoopdeedoo? Whatever. Use about a tablespoon or two of batter evenly
spaced 2 inches apart. Bake for 10 minutes or til they spring back
nicely like a cake would. Cool for 5 minutes and move to a wire rack.
Cool completely and frost with desired filling.
Vanilla Whoopie Pie Filling
2 sticks softened butter
1/4 cup shortening
1 tsp good quality vanilla
2-4 T heavy cream
Powdered Sugar
Beat the butter and shortening together for a while till light. Add
vanilla and beat again. Add powdered sugar until thick. So unspecific. I
eyeball my frosting but I'd guess two cups? I don't know. Just go with
it. Add two T cream and beat for a while. Check consistency and add more
cream if needed, I needed 3 but you might not. Go with the flow.
There's always more confectioners sugar and cream. or worst case you can
sandwich butter inbetween and be totally ok. i wouldn't mind. who cares
what everybody else thinks. pfffffft. pipe inbetween two cookies and
smusch together. devour the pillowy cloud of omnomnom. repeat until
gone.
you can also fill with cookie dough frosting!