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Airy, soft chocolate pastry and tender, creamy cream cheese filling make the chocolate whoopie pies incredibly delicious. You won’t get enough of them once you’ve tried them. The American sandwich cookies you can easily make at home with common ingredients. You can find a detailed chocolate whoopie recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions here at the bottom.
What are whoopie pies?
Whoopie pies or whoopies are American sandwich cookies consisting of a fluffy pastry and a creamy filling, similar to the mini cakes “Bouchee”. The classic filling of the industrially produced whoopie pies contains a marshmallow cream.
In terms of consistency, it is more like a mini cake, just like the yoshiki. In terms of appearance, whoopie pies are similar to the French macarons.
There are many recipes for whoopies in different flavors. Very popular are the sandwich cookies with chocolate flavor.
In America, “whoopie” is the exclamation of positive surprise or excitement.
Make chocolate cookies the day before
You can get the chocolate cookies ready the day before, just like the sponge cake for the kartoshka cake, among other things. Let them cool thoroughly after baking and then pack them airtight, for example in a lunch box. Store the cookies overnight at room temperature.
The next day, prepare the cream and fill the cookies with it. Then store the chocolate whoopie pies in the refrigerator.
Ideal for party
Whoopies are ideal for a buffet at parties. They are convenient to serve and can be eaten directly by hand, just like the banana muffins and Napoleon puff pastry slices.
Along with the cake pops and the zefir lollies, the chocolate whoopie pies make a great addition to a candy bar for a wedding or birthday. Because they not only taste delicious, but also look pretty.
By the way, you can decorate the whoopies according to the occasion of the celebration. For example, cover them with a chocolate glaze, similar to the eclairs, or a sugar icing, just like the vegan lemon cake, and place fruits or edible flowers on top.
These whoopie pies are
- fluffy,
- creamy,
- chocolatey,
- moist,
- soft,
- tender,
- moderately sweet,
- incredibly delicious,
- with cream cheese butter filling,
- easy to make,
- ideal for a coffee round or celebration.
Chocolate whoopie recipe
The chocolate whoopie pie recipe, which you can find here at the end of the post in the recipe box, is very simple. You need few common ingredients for it.
Step 1:
First, make the cookies. For this, beat egg with sugar until fluffy. Then stir in kefir and melted butter. Now fold in flour with cocoa powder, possibly some instant coffee, baking powder and baking soda.
Put the batter into the freezer for 30 – 40 minutes. Then form small balls with moistened hands, bake them for about 10 minutes and let them cool.
Step 2:
In the meantime, you can prepare the filling. Whip soft butter with powdered sugar until creamy. Then stir in cream cheese in batches.
Step 3:
Now you can assemble the sandwich cookies. Stick two chocolate cookies together with a generous portion of cream.
Let the whoopies cool for a few hours and enjoy them afterwards.
How to make chocolate whoopie pies: tips and tricks
- You can replace kefir with buttermilk.
- You can simply omit instant coffee.
- The amount of flour given in the recipe may vary. In the end, add only enough flour to make a tough, very sticky batter. It should not become runny, but not solid either.
- Mix the batter only briefly until it reaches a homogeneous consistency, so that the cookies taste fluffy and not firm.
- During baking, the small balls of chocolate batter turn into the chocolate cookies. It is important for this that your batter has the right consistency.
- Do not bake the chocolate cookies longer than necessary so that they taste soft and not dry.
- You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the filling according to your taste.
- Instead of using a piping bag, you can also fill the cookies with a teaspoon.
- The whoopies taste best the day they are made, after they have been allowed to set in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Did you make the chocolate whoopie pies using this recipe? I’m looking forward to your results, your star rating and your comment here below on how they turned out and tasted to you.
Also try these recipes from American cuisine:
- How to make fluffy American pancakes – the best recipe
- Red velvet cupcakes – the American classic in mini version
- Lemon crinkle cookies – recipe for sugary temptation
Chocolate whoopie pies
Equipment
- piping bag with hole nozzle
Ingredients
for the pastry
- 100 g kefir
- 100 g sugar
- 50 g butter
- 1 egg
- 40 g cocoa powder
- approx. 150 g flour
- 1 tsp instant coffee
- 3 g baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
- 2 g baking powder
- 1 pinch of ground vanilla bean
- 1 pinch of salt
for the filling
- 130 g cream cheese
- 70 g butter room warm
- 60 g powdered sugar
Instructions
Preparation of the pastry
- Melt butter and let it cool.
- Beat egg, sugar, vanilla and salt to an airy, light mass.
- Add kefir and the melted butter and mix until homogeneous.
- Mix 100 g of flour with cocoa powder, coffee, baking soda and baking powder.
- Add the dry flour mixture to the liquid kefir mixture and mix briefly.
- Now add the remaining flour gradually as needed until you get a chewy, very sticky chocolate batter.
- Cover the batter and place it in the freezer for about 30 - 40 minutes to set.
- Keep moistening your hands with water, shape the chocolate batter into small balls (about the size of a walnut) and spread them out on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, spacing them generously apart.
- Bake the chocolate cookies in a preheated oven at 338 °F (170 °C) for about 10 minutes and let them cool.
Preparation of the filling
- Beat soft butter and powdered sugar for about 5 minutes until fluffy and creamy.
- Add cream cheese in portions and whip briefly each time to a homogeneous cream.
Preparation of the whoopie pies
- Transfer the cream to the piping bag with a round hole nozzle and pipe it onto the flat bottom of half of the chocolate cookies, leaving a small border on each cookie.
- Place a cookie without the cream on top of each cookie with the cream, flat side down, and press down a bit so you have sandwich cookies.
- Chill the whoopie pies for about 2 hours.
Notes
- You can replace kefir with buttermilk.
- You can simply omit instant coffee.
- The amount of flour given may vary. In the end, add only enough flour to make a tough, very sticky batter. It should not become runny, but not solid either.
- Mix the batter only briefly until it reaches a homogeneous consistency, so that the cookies taste fluffy and not firm.
- During baking, the small balls of chocolate batter turn into the chocolate cookies. It is important for this that your batter has the right consistency.
- Do not bake the chocolate cookies longer than necessary so that they taste soft and not dry.
- You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the filling according to your taste.
- Instead of using a piping bag, you can also fill the cookies with a teaspoon.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the chocolate whoopie pies at the top of the post.
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