Whoopie Pies are a classic, fluffy chocolate sandwich dessert that are soft, sweet, and effortlessly nostalgic! Easy to make yourself at home!
If you want delicious Chocolate desserts, you HAVE to try my Easy Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Lava Cake recipes. They’re legendarily good, according to the comments and emails I get about them. Now back to these awesome Whoopie Pies…
Sabrina’s Whoopie Pies Recipe
Whoopie Pies are a traditional American dessert from New England with a chocolatey outside and a delicious marshmallow filling that are easy to make and absolutely delicious. If you are a fan of rich, creamy desserts, you need to try my Whoopie Pie recipe. Not only is it really easy, but you can also make all of the components from scratch. You’ll impress your dinner guests, and yourself, with how fancy these simple desserts turn out. It’s a great addition to the many great cookie recipes on the site!
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Ingredients
Whoopie Pies
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter , room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar , packed
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup Dutch cocoa powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Marshmallow Fluff Filling
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter , at room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups marshmallow fluff
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking pan with parchment paper.
- To your stand mixer add the butter and brown sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate medium bowl.
- Alternate in the buttermilk and flour mixture ⅓ at a time until just combined.
- Scoop ¼ cup measured amounts onto baking sheet 2 inches apart.
- Bake 12-14 minutes then let cool completely.
- Make the marshmallow fluff filling by beating the butter and powdered sugar together until well combined then add in the marshmallow fluff until fully combined.
- Add 2 tablespoons of marshmallow fluff to the flat side of half of the cookies then sandwich them together.
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About this Recipe
Whoopie Pies, or “whoopee pies,” supposedly originate with the Amish, and the story goes that the name comes from the shout of happiness that Amish men would make when they opened their lunch pails and saw the dessert waiting inside. Whether or not it’s true, it’s certainly a cute story. Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Virginia all claim to be where the dessert originated, and Maine declared Whoopie Pies to be their state dessert, much to the outrage of the other states.
How to Serve and Store
- Serve: You shouldn’t leave Whoopie Pies out for longer than about 2 hours due to the dairy products in them.
- Store: Keep your Whoopie Pies in plastic wrap or a sealable bag, and they’ll last up to a week before you should make yourself a new batch.
- Freeze: Whoopie Pies are good frozen for about 3 months. Make sure that you let them fully cool down to room temperature before you wrap them up and store them to prevent bacteria from being sealed up with them.
Variations
- Dip them in chocolate: Once you’ve made your Whoopie Pies, you can dip the entire cookie in melted chocolate and let it cool for a Moon Pie kind of feel.
- Serve with: Serve up the Whoopie Pies with a scoop of Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream or Homemade Whipped Cream.
- Flavors: You can experiment with all sorts of different flavors for both the cookie and the filling. Try adding vanilla or caramel extract to the cake batter, or get festive by adding mint flavoring and green coloring to the fluff.
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I grew up with these and have made them before with a different recipe, but I wanted to try something new. The cake tasted delicious, but it completely flattened. The filling was way, way too sweet.
Oh no Emily. Sorry to hear. Did you happen to open the oven while baking? I’ve learned that the blast of cool air can flatten cakes and cookies. Maybe cut back on the amount of powdered sugar for the filling next time? Everyone’s tastes are so different. Thanks for trying the recipe!
Directions are horrible. No wear do you have steps for when you incorporate the egg, vanilla, Buttermilk, etc.
Hi Monica, sorry it needs to be more clear for you. Those are wet ingredients, so in the directions when it says add wet ingredients, that is when you would use those. Hope that helps.
Could you prepare these whoopie pies using a box cake mix? We have 4 little foster babies (2, 3, 4, & 6 yrs old), and making anything from scratch just doesn’t seem to happen! LOL! I love whoopie pies though, and am dying to make these using your recipe for the filling. What do you think? Would cake mix work?
Wow, I don’t blame you!! I haven’t tried it but I don’t see why you couldn’t use one. Try looking for a recipe online using a cake mix to use as a guideline. Good luck!
I always did this when my kids were little as well.
I used a Devils Food chocolate cake mix and added 1 and 1/4 cup of flour to mix and followed the rest of the cake recipe!
Enjoy!
I love everything chocolate! Made these whoopie pies last night. They are gone!:) Will make them again for sure! Thanks for sharing.
Whoopie..I am in love with these…pinned it as well..
Thanks! Glad you like!
I love the sound of whoopy pies, anything with fluffy marshmallows and I will eat it for sure. Thanks for sharing!!
These aren’t as hard to make as I thought. They are definitely drool worthy.
yes! Surprisingly so easy and very tasty.
I love Whoopie Pies!! They remind me of my time living back East and the first time I tried one! The first time I saw one I didn’t know if it was a cookie or a cake but I knew I needed to have it! Delish!
They are a back east classic – I love to make them!