Ingredients
Method
Cookie Batter
- Cream together the oil (or lard), sugar, and yolks.
- Mix cocoa in the hot water until dissolved, then add to creamed mixture.
- Add salt and vanilla.
- Stir together clabbered milk (or cultured buttermilk) and baking soda until foamy, then add to batter mixture.
- Add flour, see notes at bottom regarding flour.
- Batter will be a little thicker than cake batter. Drop by spoonful onto parchment paper and bake at 350℉ until cookies spring back when touched.
- Set cookies to side to cool while you make the filling.
Filling
- Whip together all ingredients until light and fluffy.
Spread filling between two cookies. Wrap individually and eat within a few days or freeze and enjoy frozen treats.
Notes
Regarding the Flour:
Start with 4- 4 1/2 cups flour, bake a couple sample cookies and then if they run out too thin add another 1/2 cup flour and bake a couple more samples until you are satisfied. Every one measures flour differently, some scoop their flour from the container, others pour into their measuring cup, and still other knock the measuring cup and fill it full with packed flour. All these methods would give you a different total weight of flour added. With cookie recipes I always start with 1/2 cup less of flour and bake a couple sample cookies before I proceed.
The story behind whoopie pies goes something like this:
Amish and Mennonite women would take their cake batter and bake it in cookie form and put the frosting in between instead of on top because it was easier for them to take these treats to their husbands in the field than it was to take individual pieces of cake.
The husbands would cheer WHOOOOPIE when they would find these delicious cake type of cookies.
Now I don't know how true that story is but the Mennonite women in my family have been getting together to make 100s of whoopie pies in all different flavors for generations now. They would spend the day baking and chattering and taking care of babies, everyone pitching in to share the work. They would all go home with a healthy share of whoopie pies for their freezers! These delicious cookies can be found inside the lunch boxes of Amish and Mennonite children in one room school houses across the nation, In the lunches of the hard working men folks of the plain communities too.
Every Fund raiser, family reunion and picnic usually sports these delicious treats as well and the women proudly boast about their secret recipes and every one knows who makes the best whoopie pies!!
Any Mennonite cookbook holds close to dozen or more different whoopie pie recipes but this one, the one I've shared with you... I’ve not seen this one in even one cookbook, its been shared between family members and apparently never been submitted to a cookbook!!
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I love your youtube channel!!! These pies look delicious and i plan on making these! Would you have an idea on how to turn the chocolate whoopie pie recipe into banana pies?