These Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Cake Batter Buttercream are an easy dessert recipe for summer potlucks or family birthdays. This whoopie pie recipe is tons of fun!
Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Cake Batter Buttercream
The Whoopie Pie. It’s not a new invention, but I decided to give it a go with some yummy filling. Cake Batter filling. What’s that you say? Oh yes..I HAVE lost my mind.
How to Make The Best Whoopie Pies
First you have to make your cookies.
It’s a pretty easy recipe. Mix your butter, sugar..blah blah blah…
Then add your dry ingredients.
Then the milk…
Now you have batter.
Now bake. Bake I say!
The will come out nice and pretty.
and ready to be filled with amazing cake batter frosting.
Leave a little squish room around the edges..
And I rolled my pies in sprinkles, just because it seemed like the right thing to do.
Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Cake Batter Buttercream
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 15 whoopie pies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Cake Batter Buttercream are an easy dessert recipe for summer potlucks or family birthdays. This whoopie pie recipe is tons of fun!
Ingredients
Chocolate Whoopie Pies
- 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 Tbsp butter – room temp
- 3 Tbsp vegetable shortening
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup whole milk
Cake Batter Buttercream
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup vanilla or funfetti cake mix…I used funfetti (not prepared…dry)
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1–2 Tbsp milk
Instructions
Chocolate Whoopie Pies
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt
- In a mixer, cream together butter, shortening and brown sugar until combined well.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat for 2 minutes.
- Turn mixer to low and add half of the flour/cocoa mixture, then half the milk, repeating until all the ingredients are mixed in.
- Drop by rounded tablespoon, 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until centers are set.
- Cool on pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.
- Fill with your prepared filling.
Cake Batter Buttercream
- Beat butter and shortening on medium speed until smooth
- Turn mixer to low and slowly add in your powdered sugar and dry cake mix.
- Turn speed up to medium and beat for 1 minute until smooth.
- Add in milk and continue mixing until desired consistency is reached.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 167
- Sugar: 15.2 g
- Sodium: 298.3 mg
- Fat: 7.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.9 g
- Protein: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 24.2 mg
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ps ~ I mustache you a question…but I’ll shave it for later.
You’re welcome for that.
Thin mustaches totally gross me out. Not that I am a fan of thick mustaches much, but they looks less skeevy. Unfortunately my boyfriend likes to sport one once in awhile. Thankfully he can grow a mean mustache, but I still like to call it the molestache because he looks like a creeper. Anywho, these sound amazing!
Oh my gosh! I could not agree more about the stache! About a month ago, my husband thought it would be funny to shave his face but leave the beginnings of a stache. He couldn’t even keep a straight face long enough for me to believe he was serious! I walked in and he started grinning and I was like WTH? LOL! Not to worry, he shaved it off!
hahahaaa!!
My husband had a goatee for about 10 years – not too long out of highschool and up til last year. Last year he grew it into a full on beard. He keeps it trimmed very short though. I totally think facial hair is sexy. Not just a ‘stache, though. That’s just creepy. Unless it’s on your dad or my dad or someone else who is clearly of the age to be my dad.
The Food Network has been the only channel played on my TV since April, and finally this month I’ve decided to start baking & cooking. I just found your food blog a few minutes ago, and from the first words I read, “how weird are mustaches?” has made me want to try all your recipes. Thank you, because I now want to create everything you have put on your site. And because I also wonder why guys decide to get mustaches.HA!
haha! food network who? 😉
My dad has had a mustache for forever also, but on anyone other than him, I think they look either sleazy or creepy…usually both.
cake batter filling…you know your way to my stomach so well…
This sounds delicious…but I gotta say – I love mustaches. I keep trying to talk my husband into one.
Mustaches on young people basically scream “I am going to try to murder you, or say awkward things that make you uncomfortable”
Unlike these whoopie pies…they just scream happy. 🙂
Love your dad’s sweatshirt, too!!! I want one of those whoopie pies right about now, please. With a tall glass of milk.
Aww, those are so sweet! Love the sprinkles. I am hosting a recipe party at my blog if you might be interested in submitting. I’d love to have you join in the fun 🙂
So cute!
The mustache on your dad too. ; )