Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies
Chocolate chip whoopie pies are delicious chocolate chip studded whoopie pie that is with a chocolate buttercream frosting. This whoopie pie recipe is made from scratch and is the ultimate dessert to serve up.
A cookie whoopie pie recipe that instead of a classic cake you have a sweet morsel in each bite. If you love whoopie pies I have a Godiva chocolate whoopie pie for you to try too!
This Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies Recipe Is…
- Made from scratch
- Chocolate chip cookie flavored cake
- Homemade frosting filling
- Simple dessert
- Great for parties and potlucks
Ingredients Needed For Whoopie Pies
- All purpose flour
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla
- Milk
- Mini Chocolate Chips
- Powdered Sugar
How to Make Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies
Step One: Start by preheating the oven and greasing our whoopie pie pan. Then, in a bowl, add your dry ingredients for the cakes and mix to combine.
Step Two: Next, you will grab a mixer and beat the butter, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla.
Step Three: Alternate from milk to the dry ingredients, incorporating it into the batter. Then, once well mixed, fold in the chocolate chips.
Step Four: Drop the batter onto the baking sheet and bake as directed. Then repeat the steps to cook all the cookie batter. Let the whoopie pies cool. (Photo 1)
Step Five: With a hand mixer you are going to create the butter and sugars for the frosting, until nice and creamy.
Step Six: Then mix the milk and vanilla to create a thick frosting. Then, fold in the chocolate chips once it is the right consistency.
Step Seven: Add about 2 tablespoons of frosting on one whoopie pie and place the top whoopie on top to make a sandwich. (Photos 2 & 3)
Once sandwiched together, serve up this chocolate chip dessert and enjoy!
How to Store
Room temperature or Fridge – You can store these whoopie pies at room temperature or in the fridge. If your home is on the warmer side you will want to refrigerate as the buttercream frosting can break down if it gets too hot.
Freezer – You can also freeze these chocolate chip cake cookies as well. Just place in a freezer friendly container or wrap individually then freeze. They will freeze for 2-3 months.
Variations To Recipe
- Use different flavors of chocolate chips, like white chocolate, peanut butter chips, etc.
- Feel free to use a different flavor of frosting. The chocolate frosting makes these whoopie pies extra rich.
- Leave the chocolate chips out of the frosting for a less textured frosting.
- Roll the edges in sprinkles to dress up the whoopie pies. The sprinkles will stick to the frosting.
Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies FAQs
Using a whoopie pie pan creates the perfect round cakes that work for sandwiching together. Otherwise, you will find the batter is too wet and will spread and you will not get the nice round cakes.
Take a toothpick and stick in the center of the cakes, and if it comes out clean of wet batter the pies are done. Don’t overbake the cakes or they will dry out quite a bit.
If you stack whoopie pies you need wax paper or wrapped in plastic wrap so the cookie cakes don’t stick together. Otherwise, you will find it is a mess and you won’t have nice clean whoopie pies.
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Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
Cookie Dough:
- 1⅔ Cups (208 ⅓ g) flour all-purpose
- 1½ tsp (1 ½ tsp) baking soda
- ½ tsp Kosher salt
- 4 Tbsp sweet cream butter room temp 1⁄2 C dark brown sugar (packed)
- 1 large egg large
- 1 tsp vanilla extract pure
- 1 Cup (236 ⅗ g) chocolate chips mini
- ½ Cup (110 g) brown sugar dark (packed)
- 1 Cup (244 g) whole milk
Frosting:
- ¾ Cup (170 ¼ g) butter unsalted sweet cream softened
- ¾ Cup (150 g) sugar
- ¾ Cup (165 g) brown sugar light
- 3 tbsp whole milk
- 1½ tsp (1 ½ tsp) vanilla extract pure
- 1 Cup (125 g) flour all-purpose
Instructions
- Preheat your oven and prepare your whoopie pie pan as per the instructions.
- Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and set aside after mixing well.
- Use an electric hand mixer or stand mixer to blend the wet ingredients until thoroughly mixed.
- Gradually alternate adding the dry ingredients with milk to the wet mixture, ensuring to mix well and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped maraschino cherries into the batter until evenly distributed.
- Spoon the whoopie pie batter into the slots of the whoopie pie pan.
- Bake according to the given instructions.
- Once baked, remove the whoopie pies from the oven and allow them to cool on a cooling rack before proceeding.
- Prepare the homemade frosting by mixing the ingredients until smooth.
- Pipe a ring of the freshly made frosting onto the center of one cookie, then top it with another cookie to complete your whoopie pie.
Nutrition Information
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