If you need to know how to make Whoopie Pies, you’ve landed in the right place because this truly is the best Whoopie Pie recipe I’ve come across.
I remember eating these treats as a kid and for some reason I totally forgot about them – until now. Before making them I did google around a bit to understand what really makes a Whoopie Pie a Whoopie Pie. Since it’s been so long since I’d enjoyed them, I had some confusion about the difference between Whoopie Pies and the Moon Pies I used to eat as a kid. They’re totally different except that they both are a sandwich-style treat with something creamy in the center.
I had a very happy moment when I stumbled on the absolutely best recipe EVER for Whoopie Pies from another blog called Omnomicon . It was then that I recalled eating Whoopie Pies as a kid growing up in New England. I guess that’s the origin of these fabulous little wonders. If you do a little bit of research on these delicious little treats, you’ll find that both Maine and Pennsylvania are fighting about who can claim to be “Home of the Whoopie Pie.” I love it!
Authentic Whoopie Pies consist of two chocolate cake-like mounds filled with sweet cream. They are soft, chocolatey, sweet, cakey and creamy. Happiness, right. So thanks to Aleta from Omnomicon for sharing her mom’s amazing recipe that I will cherish forever and ever…and ever. And now, I’m sharing it with you. Let me just add that it’s easy and will make everyone happy!
Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Crisco
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1 cup sugar
- 11/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Cream Filling
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter room temp - I used butter
- 1/2 c up Crisco substitution not recommended
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup warm whole milk 20 seconds in the microwave should do it
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F
- In mixing bowl, add all wet ingredient and beat until blended. Add all dry ingredients to another bowl, mix together and then add slowly to wet mixture and beat until blended, scraping down bowl.
- Drop by small tablespoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake exactly 8 - 9 minutes at 375 until toothpick comes out clean. Remove from pan immediately to wire rack to cool.
- For the cream, add all ingredients to mixing bowl and beat for about five minutes until the mixture is nicely thickened and creamy.
- Spoon onto flat side of one cake round and top with a cake round that is similar in size to the bottom. Press gently. Repeat until done.
These whoopie pies look so yummy. Gotta love anything that's filled with such a creamy frosting. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog called "Sweets for a Saturday" and I'd like to invite you to stop by and link your whoopie up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/02/sweets-for-saturday-4.html
Hi Lisa,
I saw your message too late! Maybe next week. Sounds like fun!
These look amazing! Hope you had a good weekend!