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Rich chocolate cookies with creamy vanilla filling on a cooling rack, perfect for homemade dessert recipes.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie

Bree Hester
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 whoopie pies
Calories 748 kcal

Ingredients
  

For the dough:

  • 1 – 12 ounce package mini chocolate chips
  • 2 Tablespoons milk
  • 3/4 cup butter room temperature
  • 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 cups flour

For the frosting:

  • 1 cup room temperature butter
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup marshmallow creme
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons milk

Instructions
 

  • Set aside 1/4 cup of the mini chips to sprinkle on the cookies. Melt one cup of the chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons of milk. Microwave on 50% power for one minute or until melted. Set this aside.
    Chocolate chips in a glass measuring cup for baking recipes and desserts.
  • Cream together the butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
    Creamy buttercream frosting in a stand mixer, perfect for cake decorating and baking recipes.
  • Add the sugar.
    Powdered sugar being added to a stand mixer for baking recipes | baking process with stand mixer.
  • Add the eggs, 1/2 cup milk, vanilla and melted chocolate.
    Cream cheese, eggs, and ingredients mixing in a stand mixer for baking.
  • Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. (You can add the rest of the chocolate chips at this point, but I forgot, I only added the ones to sprinkle at the end.)
    Creamy chocolate mixture being prepared with a stand mixer for baking.
  • Add the batter to the whoopie pie pan or drop onto cookie sheets 2 inches apart. Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chips.
    Rich chocolate chip cookie dough in a muffin tin ready for baking. Delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven.
  • Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 9 minutes or until the tops are set. Let sit in the pan for one minute and transfer to a rack to cool. Now on to the best part. The frosting.
    Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack for authentic homemade taste.
  • While the cookies are cooling you can get started on the best frosting I have ever had. Cream together the butter and peanut butter. When they are light and fluffy, add the marshmallow creme.
    Cream being mixed in a stand mixer for baking recipes.
  • Add the powdered sugar and until combined. Add the milk until the frosting is the right consistency for spreading.
    Cream cheese and powdered sugar being mixed in a baking bowl for a dessert recipe.
  • Put a generous blob of frosting on one cookie. Add another cookie and you have a whoopie pie.
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  • And depending on who you share these with, some new friends.
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  • The whoopie pie possibilities are endless. What flavors and combination do you like? Please share with the class.
    Chocolate chip cookies with creamy filling on a cooling rack, fresh baked and delicious.

Nutrition

Calories: 748kcalCarbohydrates: 87gProtein: 12gFat: 43gSaturated Fat: 21gSodium: 473mgFiber: 3g
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