Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies

Recipe Rating:	21 Ratings5
Categories:	Cakes, Cookies
Collections:	Christmas Cookies, Nuts for Baking
Serves:	About 15 pies
Prep Time:	30 Min
Cook Time:	10 Min

Ingredients

CAKE INGREDIENTS
1 box	carrot cake mix (18 oz)
1 stick	unsalted butter, softened
3	eggs
1	carrot, grated
FILLING INGREDIENTS
8 oz	cream cheese
1 stick	butter
16 oz	powdered sugar
1 tsp	vanilla
1/2 c	pecans, chopped

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Pattie Turner

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Pattie's Notes:

I love Whoopie Pies! They are really easy to make. You can also add 1/2 cup raisins, if you like, to the cake ingredients. You can use Walnuts instead of pecans, if you prefer, to roll the finished pies in. The Women's Fellowship Group at my church recently took a meal to a local hospice home and I made these pies to share. They were a big hit! I hope that you enjoy!

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Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Any carrot cake fans in the house? Me too! And these wonderfully moist and creamy Whoopie Pies sure do that carrot cake flavor justice... and they're portable! Great for a bake sale or special after-school treat.

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. In a large bowl beat the carrot cake mix, butter and eggs until incorporated.

Stir in the grated carrot and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 2 hours.

Using a small ice-cream scoop drop the batter by 2 tablespoon mounds onto parchment lined cookie sheets. (You can also use a whoopie pie pan sprayed with cooking spray. I invested in one because I make a lot of pies.) Bake until golden brown, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove and cool 5 minutes on the pan and then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

In a mixing bowl beat together the cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla with a hand mixer until combined and light and fluffy.

To assemble the whoopie pies, put the filling into a sealable plastic bag and snip the corner to make a small opening. Put the chopped pecans into a shallow dish or pie plate. Flip over one carrot cake cookie and pipe a dollop of frosting into the center. (I like a LOT of frosting!)

Top with another cookie and press gently to spread the frosting to the edges.

Roll the edges of the whoopie pie into the chopped pecans. Fill the remaining cookies and roll in the pecans until done. Refrigerate until serving.

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Karla Everett Karla59

Jul 26, 2011

Only one word I can say ...yummy :D

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Jul 27, 2011

OMG; I love whoopie pies too but have never made them before. I am going to learn.

Pattie Turner knit1purl1

Jul 27, 2011

I hope that you enjoy them! I have several other whoopie pie recipes that I have tried that are a little different than the norm but really good so I will post those when I have a chance. Stephanie: They really are easy to make - I am hooked! Let me know how you like them:)

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Jul 27, 2011

I simply cannot wait to make these. Cake mixes will be going on sale and I will get the mixes at that time. I bought lemon whoopie pies at my grocer's a couple weeks ago on sale and they were to die for!!! I heard there is a cookie scoop you can get to make these but ice cream scoops work just as well?

Pattie Turner knit1purl1

Jul 27, 2011

absolutely, ice cream scoop is fine. I use a small scoop (about 2 tablespoons). I spray it with Pam spray so that the cake mix doesn't stick quite as bad. You don't want to scoop more than about 2 tablespoons though because they do spread when cooking. The first time I made them they were huge!

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Jul 28, 2011

where do you get whoopie pie pans?

Pattie Turner knit1purl1

Jul 28, 2011

I didn't even realize that they made them but happened across one at Williams-Sonoma at our mall. It was expensive (to me)...can't remember for sure now but I think I paid about $25.00 for it. Of course, I had already made pies several times by then and I knew that for me it would be a good investment. I have used that pan as much as my bundt pan, ha ha! I am sure that you may find them somewhere else but I just hadn't noticed them until I saw it there. You can definitely do it without the pan but the pan makes them all the same size and shape and without the pan they spread a little more...but they are still good either way:)

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Jul 28, 2011

OK; I ordered my whoopie pie pan on line today and it will be delivered by next Tuesday. Will get my ingredients for this recipe and start my whoopie pies!! Cannot wait!!!!

Karla Everett Karla59

Jul 28, 2011

Stephanie , check your local second hand stores too , I got 2 different shape ones at the ones I go too and there alot cheaper there. Never hurts to have more than one pan. :D

Stephanie Dodd skeen