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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Ingredients

  • Cookies:
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup cooked pumpkin
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • Filling: depending on how thick you want to fill your cookies, I would maybe double this recipe
  • 12 oz. cream cheese
  • 4 TBS butter
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • Chocolate Frosting:
  • 8 TBS. cocoa
  • 3 TBS. butter
  • 1/4 cup hot water
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

  1. Cookies:
  2. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar.
  4. Add the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla. Mix well.
  5. Combine dry ingredients in another bowl, add to the pumpkin mixture and mix well.
  6. Drop by heaping TBS onto parchment covered baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes.
  7. Filling:
  8. Mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar until smooth.
  9. Chocolate Frosting:
  10. Melt butter in saucepan.
  11. Add cocoa and hot water and salt, stir together.
  12. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar, vanilla, and stir.
  13. After cookies are made and cooled off, spread frosting on bottom of one cookie, place another cookie on top to make a sandwich.
  14. Drizzle the frosting over top.