Whoopie Pies
- Yield 40 servings
Two spongy, chocolate cookies filled with a fluffy marshmallow cream.
Ingredients
- Cookies
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Filling
- 1 cup solid vegetable shortening
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups marshmallow creme
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 to 6 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- To prepare cookie dough, combine oil, sugar, cocoa, milk, egg, flour, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Beat with a mixer until well blended. Refrigerate for about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Drop dough, one teaspoon at a time, onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 5 to 10 minutes.
- Prepare filling while cookies cool Beat shortening, sugar, marshmallow creme, vanilla, and 3 tablespoons milk together until fluffy. Add more milk if needed. Spoon a generous dollop of filling on the flat sides of half the cooled cookies. Place another cookie on top of each to make a sandwich.
—Ruth Johnson, Delaware, Ohio
