October is finally here!! It's my favorite time of the year for baking. Everything tastes so warm and cozy. I'm asking for you guys to send your favorite Autumn/Fall recipes to me at howtoeatacupcake@yahoo.com (an e-mail is preferable, but a comment is fine!). This recipe was sent to me by Debbie Vassil. It comes from Bon Appetit's October 2005 issue. I had never made whoopie pies before, but I had read a lot about them in Flickr discussions. I love love LOVE pumpkin, so I definitely couldn't resist this recipe. I rolled some in toasted chopped pecans and some in mini chocolate chips. They'd also be super good topped with dried cranberries like those raisin creme pies you can get at the grocery store. Thanks Debbie, these were SO great! There were no leftovers! ;)OH YEAH!! And I totally forgot October 1st is National Cookie Day. These are kinda like cookies... right?
Ingredients
After letting the electric mixer do most of the work, I like to finish the batter by hand.
I used a medium (#30) cookie scoop to make sure they were all the same size.
While they were cooling, the house smelled SO nice!
Tada! Autumn deliciousness!
After letting the electric mixer do most of the work, I like to finish the batter by hand.
I used a medium (#30) cookie scoop to make sure they were all the same size.
While they were cooling, the house smelled SO nice!
Tada! Autumn deliciousness!
MY NOTES: This is my adaptation of the recipe sent to me by Debbie Vassil from Bon Appetit's October 2005 issue. I halved the recipe, and changed it slightly. I'll put the original quantities in bold parentheses. The original recipe probably makes about 23-24 pies. You'll need to double the filling if you make the whole recipe. Also, I made my own buttermilk by adding 1/4 tsp white vinegar to 1/4 cup whole milk. Let it sit for at least 5 minutes. I used my own recipe for the spiced cream cheese filling.
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Makes 23 cookies (11 pies + 1 leftover cookie to eat!)
1 1/4 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (2 3/4 cups)
1 teaspoon baking powder (2 tsp)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda (1 tsp)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (4 1/2 tsp)
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (1 1/2 tsp)
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (1 1/2 tsp)
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves (1/2 tsp)
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temp (2 1/2 sticks)
1/2 cup sugar (1 1/2 cups)
1 tablespoon molasses (3 Tbsp)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (2 tsp)
2 large eggs (4)
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling) (1 1/4 cups)
1/4 cup buttermilk (1/2 cup)
Spiced Cream Cheese Filling (my own recipe)
4 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
A pinch of nutmeg, ginger, and cloves
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Whisk dry ingredients (except sugar) together in a medium bowl.
Using electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, molasses and vanilla in large bowl to blend. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Add pumpkin puree.
Mix in dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions, beating until just combined.
Line large baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared sheets, spacing 2 inches apart, leaving enough room for dough to spread.
Bake for 13 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly pressed in the center. Cool completely on wire racks before filling.
To make the filling, beat cream cheese and butter together on medium speed until blended. Add sugar and spices. Beat just until thickened and well blended.
18 comments:
mmmmmhm yummy cassie. those looks absolutely amazing. heart you. ps. aaron said he can smell them and that he thinks your sending him some lol ..
These look soo good....definitely going to have to try. Nielsen Massey vanilla, nice.
You are doing a great job and these look beautiful. Thanks for the recipe.
Perfect recipe! I made chocolate whoopie pies about a month ago, but I never thought of pumpkin... great Fall idea, they came out awesome :)
The little debbie thing was hilarious. I never had the raisin ones, but I LOVED the oatmeal creme pies. I wonder if we could make those....
this looks so fantastic!!i must try this sometime!=)great work!!
great idea for the thanksgiving weekend and ooohhhh they look so yummy thanks for posting
Martha (Stewart, that is!) sent me pumpkin woopie pie recipes today...they look so yummy. Pumpkin cookies are my favorite
This IS one of my favorite fall recipes ... but I did not create it myself. It's from Amy's Bakery Arts Cafe in Brattleboro, VT, and was printed in the October 2005 issue of Bon Appetit magazine. Just wanted to give credit where credit is due, since I did not think of this when I sent the recipe the other day! Cassie ... thanks for trying them - I'm SO GLAD you liked them!! :)
these look good. Pity I can t find pumpkin puree here. I s it possible to use fresh pumpkin ?
Wow, they sound amazing! Must. Have.
How I wish we had winter here in sunny Philippines. Oh well, I would try to make these though; I love pumpkins. :)
Wow - those look amazing! Pumpkin baking is the best! Spiced cream cheese filling sounds heavenly!
MMMMMM... pumpkin + whoopie pie = DELICIOUS! They look so pretty too!
I cannot wait to try this! I have a recipe for traditional whoopie pies (or "gobs" depending on which part of the country you're from). This recipe is perfect for Fall and I'm planning on making this very soon. The photos are also a great visual! Thanks for doing that!
Omg, I want one!!!
I really shouldn't read your blog when I'm hungry, I'm about two seconds away from jumping up to dig in my cupboards for ingredients for these. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I'm positive I have no canned pumpkin. Though, I'm about ready to bribe my brother to run out and get me a can! Pshaw, to heck with trying to eat healthier, I need pumpkin whoopie pies, darnit!
i tried out your spiced cream cheese and it was a huge hit!
here is my post, with pictures : http://mysweetestday.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/im-sensing-a-theme-here/
I just had to tell you how much of a hit these were in my house and my office! Two of my co-workers declared them "the best thing I have ever put in my mouth!" and prying them away from my dad was a feat in and of itself!
I stuck to your recipe exactly except I ran out of cloves for the cream cheese filling so I added pumpkie pie spice instead of the other spices, which seemed to work out nicely!
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