Whoppie Pies

I just fell in love With these. The marshmelloow cream filling is so yummy, I could of eaten the whole Bowl with a spoon. I didn't sandwich most of these pies, I frosted them like cookies, I thought Their was a bit too much cookie and not enough cream.


Adapted From The Novice Chef Makes: 15 pies Prep Time: 45 minutes Bake Time: 8-9 minutes (Printable Recipe)

Ingredients: Whoopie Pie
1 2/3 cups flour
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk

Cream Filling oh so good.
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 1/3 cups Marshmallow Fluff
1/4 teaspoon salt dissolved in 1 tablespoon of water
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions Begin with sifting your flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together into a large mixing bowl and set aside. Then in the bowl of an electric mixer, combine your butter, vegetable shortening, and brown sugar. Using your paddle attachment, mix on low speed until just combined. Then switch to high speed and beat for 3 minutes. Scrape the sides of your bowl, add your egg and vanilla extract, and beat on high for another 2 minutes. Then add half of your flour mixture and half of your milk and mix until just combined. Then add the rest of your flour and milk and mix on medium/high for 30 seconds until light and fluffy.

On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, spoon 2 tablespoons of batter. Make sure to leave 1 1/2 inches in between each mound so when they bake and expand they don't bake into each other. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-9 minutes.

Allow your whoopie pies to cool completely. Then spoon a heaping spoon full of filling onto the center of your flat side. Take a second whoopie pie and lay the flat side down over the cream filling. Gently press down to evenly push to the sides.






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Halfmoon Cookies

I have always loved halfmoon cookies, and thought they'd be fun to make. I used. A recipe from a blog. http://andreasrecipes.com/2006/02/12/chocolate-half-moon-cookies/ I used the Wilton's recipe for buttercream frosting

Wilton's Buttercream Frosting:
1/2 c veg shortening
1/2 c (1 stick) butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 c confec sugar
2 tbs milk
For Chocolate add 3/4 c cocoa



I found a recipe for Hemstroughts, next time ill have to try this one.
FOR THE COOKIES:
3 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
2 1/4 cup sugar
16 tbsp. margarine, cut into pieces
3/4 cup cocoa, sifted
1/4 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk
FOR THE FUDGE ICING:
3 1/2 oz. bittersweet chocolate
3 1/2 oz. semisweet chocolate
butter 4 1/3 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
2 tbsp. corn syrup
1 tsp. vanilla
extract
Pinch salt
FOR THE BUTTERCREAM ICING:
7 cups confectioners’ sugar
16 tbsp. room temperature butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
7 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Pinch salt
FOR THE COOKIES: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl and set aside. Put sugar, margarine, cocoa, and salt in bowl of standing mixer and beat on medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat. Add half the milk, then half the flour mixture, beating after each addition until smooth; repeat with remaining milk and flour
Spoon or pipe batter onto parchment-lined baking sheets, making 3-inch rounds 2-inches apart. Bake until cookies are set, about 12 minutes. Allow to cool, then remove from parchment.
FOR THE FUDGE ICING: Melt bittersweet and semisweet chocolates and butter in the top of a double boiler over simmering water over medium heat. Add confectioners’ sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, salt, and 6 tbsp. boiling water and mix to a smooth, stiff paste with a rubber spatula. Thin icing with up to 8 tbsp. more boiling water. Icing should fall from a spoon in thick ribbons. Keep icing warm in a double boiler over low heat.
FOR THE BUTTERCREAM ICING: Put sugar, butter, shortening, milk, vanilla, and salt in the bowl of a standing mixer. Beat on low speed to mix, then increase to medium and beat until light and fluffy.
TO FROST THE COOKIES: Using a metal spatula, spread about 1 tbsp. of warm fudge icing on half of the flat side of each cookie. Spread the other half of