Amish Whoopie Pies

[NePaSmoKer]

These are good. We make a couple dozen for the Army sons. Their buddys love em.

Whoopie Pie Recipe

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup cocoa
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk
Whoopie Pie Filling (see recipe below)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease baking sheets.

In a large bowl, cream together shortening, sugar, and egg. In another bowl, combine cocoa, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

In a small bowl, stir the vanilla extract into the milk. Add the dry ingredients to the shortening mixture, alternating with the milk mixture; beating until smooth.

Drop batter by the 1/4 cup (to make 18 cakes) onto prepared baking sheets. With the back of a spoon spread batter into 4-inch circles, leaving approximately 2 inches between each cake. Bake 15 minutes or until they are firm to the touch. Remove from oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.

Make Whoopie Pie Filling. When the cakes are completely cool, spread the flat side (bottom) of one chocolate cake with a generous amount of filling. Top with another cake, pressing down gently to distribute the filling evenly. Repeat with all cookies to make 9 pies. Wrap whoopie pies individually in plastic wrap, or place them in a single layer on a platter (do not stack them, as they tend to stick).

To freeze, wrap each whoopie pie in plastic wrap. Loosely pack them in a plastic freezer container and cover. To serve, defrost the wrapped whoopie pies in the refrigerator.

Makes 9 large whoopie pies.

Whoopie Pie Filling:
1 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups Marshmallow Fluff
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Butter may be substituted for all or part of the vegetable shortening, although traditional Whoopie Pies are made with vegetable shortening only

Marshmallow Creme may be substituted.

In a medium bow, beat together shortening, sugar, and Marshmallow fluff; stir in vanilla extract until well blended.

Enjoy

nepas

[deb415611]

I have used Nepa's recipe for Whoopie Pies before & they are awesome.

[FLBentRider]

I've made them too. Most Excellent!

[Caneyscud]

Dip in chocolate and call them Moon Pies - RC Cola anyone?

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[HCT]

Hey nepas, have you made them using butter?
Did you use butter in the batter? I would think they come out soft using butter.
Just thinking out loud. ;)

[Smoking Duck]

Unless you delivered them in a horse and buggy and got the aroma of the , ummmmmm, horse exhaust, mixed in, they aren't truly Amish Whoopie Pies  ;D

I'm gonna have to make a run at these, Neepers.  They don't require a mandoline slicer, by chance, do they?  ;D ;D

[NePaSmoKer]

Unless you delivered them in a horse and buggy and got the aroma of the , ummmmmm, horse exhaust, mixed in, they aren't truly Amish Whoopie Pies  ;D

I'm gonna have to make a run at these, Neepers.  They don't require a mandoline slicer, by chance, do they?  ;D ;D

Duck if you use your slicer on these you will have Amish mushy pies  :D  ;D

nepas

[Roadking]

I see them when we go to the "Green Dragon" and my teeth start to vibrate, too sweet for me.

[NePaSmoKer]

I see them when we go to the "Green Dragon" and my teeth start to vibrate, too sweet for me.

We owned a house 4 miles from the Dragon. Lived there for 12 years.

nepas

[Roadking]

I see them when we go to the "Green Dragon" and my teeth start to vibrate, too sweet for me.

We owned a house 4 miles from the Dragon. Lived there for 12 years.

nepas

What made you move north? I would have gone south.
Ever go to the market in Quakertown?

[NePaSmoKer]

I see them when we go to the "Green Dragon" and my teeth start to vibrate, too sweet for me.

We owned a house 4 miles from the Dragon. Lived there for 12 years.

nepas

What made you move north? I would have gone south.
Ever go to the market in Quakertown?

Kids moved out so we had a new house built and its closer to LVI where my wife works. Driving from Ephrata to Allentown everyday was killing her and wearing to many cars out  ;D  When she retires we might go south to Savannah

Yeah we been to just about all of em.

nepas

[seemore]

I've never made whoopie pies, but I have a feeling that I'm going to have to try them............

[FLBentRider]

I made these seemore, they are great.

I took them to work and they evaporated.

[deb415611]

I've never made whoopie pies, but I have a feeling that I'm going to have to try them............

It's a must.  They are really good!


HCT -  I have never made them with butter.  As much as I hate using shortening this is one recipe that I personally wouldn't sub butter for shortening.  If you used butter they would spread out more and the texture would be different.  I think they would be good but I'm not sure I would think of them as whoopie pies. 

[FLBentRider]

I ran out of shortening for a filling batch and had to sub butter.

They were still good, a little different texture.