Vanilla Whoopie Pie Recipe 45

WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sift together flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside. Line 2 baking pans with Silpats (French nonstick baking mats) or parchment paper. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Beat until well combined. Slowly add dry ingredients. Mix until combined.
• Using a 1-ounce ice cream scoop, place cookies onto lined baking pans, 12 per pan. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool. Repeat with remaining batter.
• Spread 2 tablespoons frosting onto each of 24 cookies. Sandwich together with remaining 24 cookies.

VANILLA WHOOPIE PIES FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees with two racks, in the upper middle and lower middle positions. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Beat the butter and sugar in a stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, or about 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla and scrape down the side of the bowl.
• Combine the flour, salt, and baking bowl in a large bowl. Reduce the mixer speed to low. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture 1/2 cup at a time, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop batter onto baking sheets spaced 2 inches apart in all directions. There should now be 12 cakes. (For smaller cakes, make them 2 tablespoons each. You will need another baking sheet.)
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes, switching the baking sheets halfway through. (Reduce to 10-13 minutes for smaller cakes.). When fully baked, a cake tester will come out clean but the cakes will still be soft. Remove to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
• Beat the powdered sugar and butter together until light and fluffy using a stand mixer on medium speed. Add the salt and vanilla. Add the marshmallow cream and beat until fully combined. Add the vanilla bean paste and stir in.
• Spread 1/3 cup of filling onto the flat side of half of the cakes. The filling should stay on but still be spreadable. It if it's sliding off, place in the refrigerator to firm up or add a bit more powdered sugar. If it's too soft to spread, add a touch of milk.
• Place the remaining cakes on top to make a sandwich. Serve immediately or refrigerate.

VANILLA WHOOPIE PIE RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt onto a sheet of wax paper. In work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat together the butter, shortening, and both sugars until light and creamy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs and the buttermilk and beat until combined. In a measuring cup, combine the milk, baking soda, and vinegar. Add milk mixture to the batter along with the flour mixture and beat on low until just combined. Add the vanilla and beat on medium for about 2 minutes until completely combined. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. To marble batters: Pour half of vanilla batter into large, shallow bowl. Add half of chocolate batter. Draw rubber spatula or large wooden spoon gently through two batters, swirling them together to create marbling. (Do not mix them.) Repeat with remaining batter. Using an ice cream scoop or a 2-tablespoon measuring spoon, drop the swirled batter one scoop at a time onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them at least 2 inches apart. Bake 1 sheet at a time for about 15 minutes each, or until the cakes spring back when pressed gently. Remove from the oven and let the cakes cool in the pan for at least 5 minutes before transferring them to a rack to cool completely. Makes about 30 4-inch cakes. For Whoopie pie filling Whip all ingredients together for at least 10 minutes until fluffy. When whoopie pie shells are cooled, take a heaping spoonful of filling and place in the middle (between 2 shells like a sandwich). You may wrap the whoopie pies in waxed paper or plastic wrap. Wicked good! Read more: http://www.oprah.com/food/wicked-whoopie-pie#ixzz2KpxFyjIN

VANILLA WHOOPIE PIES WITH MARSHMALLOW FILLING

Steps:

• For the cookies: Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and lightly coat with cooking spray.
• Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat together the granulated sugar, butter and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat until combined. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the buttermilk in 2 batches, beating after each addition until just combined.
• Scoop 2-tablespoon mounds of batter onto the baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Moisten your fingers and gently form each mound into a round and slightly smooth the top. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Bake, rotating the trays halfway through, until the tops of the cookies bounce back when gently touched, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
• For the marshmallow filling: Put the salt and egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat on medium speed until foamy. On high speed, gradually add 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar and beat until stiff and shiny.
• Meanwhile, combine the corn syrup, 1/2 cup water and the remaining 3/4 cup sugar in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until the mixture reaches the firm-ball stage, about 245 degrees F on a candy thermometer.
• Turn on the mixer to medium speed. Slowly pour the hot syrup into the egg whites, then beat on high until the mixture is thick, fluffy and cool, 5 to 7 minutes. Beat in the vanilla. Let cool completely.
• To assemble the whoopie pies, flip half of the cookies over on a work surface and spread them with the filling. Top each with another cookie, bottom facing in, to make a sandwich.

WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° F and place 1 rack at the lowest setting and 1 rack about ¾ of the way up but not at the highest rack setting.
• Sift flour, cocoa powder and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add instant coffee and salt, mix and set aside.
• Combine buttermilk and vanilla extract in a small bowl and mix well.
• Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or a hand mixer, beat butter and sugars together in large bowl until combined and fluffy, about 4 minutes on medium speed. Add egg, beating until well blended. With the mixer on low, add ⅓ of dry ingredients mixing until just combined, add ½ of buttermilk mixture mixing until just combined, add ⅓ of dry ingredients mixing until just combined, add remaining buttermilk mixture mixing until just combined and finish with by adding remaining dry ingredients mixing until just combined. Use a rubber spatula to ensure all ingredients at the bottom and around the edges are incorporated.
• Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Fit a pastry bag with a large circle tip, I use a Wilton 2A tip, or simply cut about a ½-inch opening in a pastry bag or large plastic bag. Fill bag with mixture and pipe 8 mounds per baking sheet (2 rows x 4 columns) that are about 2-inch diameter mounds and 2-inches apart. Mounds should not have a tip so if there are pointy tips, dip finger in water and tap down points.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes until cakes spring back when touched. Transfer to wire racks and let cool.
• Make the filling by beating butter, cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and salt in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or a hand mixer, until combined and fluffy, about 4 minutes on medium speed.
• Fit a pastry bag with a large circle tip, I use a Wilton 2A tip, or simply cut about a ½-inch opening in a pastry bag or large plastic bag. Fill bag with filling mixture. Flip 8 cooled cakes upside down and neatly pipe filling on the flat sides of each cake. Top with remaining cakes to create 8 whoopie pies.
• Serve as is and store leftovers in wrapped plastic or airtight container in fridge.

CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Prep oven and pans. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper (or silicone baking mats). Set aside.
• Combine dry ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour and cocoa powder. Whisk in the baking soda, salt, and espresso powder (if using). Set aside.
• Cream butter and brown sugar. In a large bowl with an electric mixer (hand mixer or stand mixer with paddle attachment), cream together the butter and brown sugar together for 1 to 2 minutes, or until combined.
• Add egg and vanilla. Mix in the egg and vanilla until fully combined. Scrape down the bowl as needed.
• Alternate dry ingredients and buttermilk. Starting and ending with the dry ingredients, alternate the flour mixture in 3 additions, with the buttermilk in 2 additions. Mix in until just combined with each addition. Be careful to not overmix at this point.
• Scoop the cookies Using a 1 ½-tablespoon cooking scoop, scoop the whoopie pie batter onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between each one. Use the back of a spoon to smooth out the batter for each whoopie pie before placing them in the oven.
• Bake. Bake for 11 to 13 minutes, or until the tops of the cookies spring back to the touch. Remove from the oven and cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer the chocolate cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Make the frosting. In your stand mixer with a paddle attachment, or in a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer beat the butter for 1 to 2 minutes, until smooth. Add in the powdered sugar, about a ½ cup at a time, mixing on low speed, in each addition until well combined.
• Add remaining frosting ingredients. Add in the heavy cream and vanilla extract and mix on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium-high and continue mixing for about 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy.
• Assemble the whoopie pies. Pair up the whoopie pies according to size. Once the cookies have cooled, pipe on the vanilla frosting onto a flat side of one cookie. I pipe just enough so there's a border of cookie, to give the frosting room when I press the two cookies together. Top with a second cookie to make a "sandwich" by gently pressing the two cookie rounds together and pressing the frosting to the edge. Continue assembling the rest of the whoopie pies.