Pumpkin Whoopie Pies | Cookies and Cups

Do-it-yourself pumpkin whoopie pies are a festive fall dessert constituted of moist and tender pumpkin-shaped cookies crammed with candy cream cheese filling. 

These cute pumpkin sandwich cookies are the right deal with to make for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and past. When you love these, attempt my Apple Butter Whoopie Pies, too!

Straightforward Do-it-yourself Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

I’ve so many pumpkin desserts for fall, however immediately’s recipe is a little bit completely different. These pumpkin whoopie pies positively put the “pumpkin” in “pumpkin dessert”, as a result of they’re truly formed like plump little pumpkins! This can be a enjoyable fall twist on whoopie pies made with creamy cream cheese filling sandwiched between delicate and fluffy “orange velvet” cookies. These home made pumpkin whoopie pies couldn’t be simpler to make they usually’re excellent for adorning, regardless of the event.

Why You’ll Love This Pumpkin Whoopie Pie Recipe

• Comfortable, chewy sandwich cookies. These cookies are primarily chocolatey pink velvet cookies, dyed pumpkin orange for fall. They’re melt-in-your-mouth delicate, like little clouds wrapped round wealthy and tangy cream cheese frosting.
• Creamy filling. I fill these cookies with a variation of the cream cheese frosting from my carrot cake recipe. The creamy filling pairs completely with the chocolate and buttermilk flavors within the cookies.
• Straightforward to customise. Adapt the flavors of those whoopie pies and the way you beautify them relying on the event. They’re nice to make for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any fall gathering.

Components You’ll Want

Beneath are some notes on the elements you’ll want for the cookies and filling. Bear in mind to scroll to the recipe card for the complete quantities and recipe particulars.

• Flour
• Cocoa Powder: I like to recommend utilizing a good-quality unsweetened pure cocoa powder.
• Baking Powder
• Butter: I like to recommend baking with unsalted butter. Bear in mind to take the butter out of the fridge forward of time, to let it come to room temperature.
• Brown Sugar: Mild brown sugar provides the cookies a deeper, extra caramelized taste. Common granulated sugar additionally works right here, the flavour simply received’t be fairly the identical.
• Egg and Vanilla
• Buttermilk: Buttermilk provides scrumptious tanginess and moisture to those orange velvet cookies. The acidity additionally reacts with the cocoa powder and baking powder, for gentle, delicate, completely puffed cookies. When you don’t have buttermilk, see my publish on how to make a buttermilk substitute.
• Meals Coloring: You’ll want orange meals dye for coloring the cookie batter, and every other colours you’d like for adorning. 

For the Cream Cheese Filling

• Cream Cheese and Butter: Take your cream cheese and butter out of the fridge forward of time. Room-temperature elements are simpler to combine.
• Vanilla
• Powdered Sugar: Additionally known as confectioner’s sugar, powdered sugar thickens the filling.

The way to Make Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Get able to whoop it up! Right here’s how simple it’s to make excellent pumpkin whoopie pies from scratch:

• Combine the moist and dry elements individually. Begin by creaming collectively butter and sugar, adopted by the egg and vanilla, and beat to mix. Combine the dry elements collectively in a separate bowl.
• Mix. Subsequent, add the dry elements to the moist elements, alternating with buttermilk till easy.
• Add meals coloring. Add orange meals coloring, a little bit at a time, to attain your required colour. Gel meals dyes are stronger, and also you’ll want much less colour consequently. Combine the batter till the colour is evenly distributed. 

• Pipe the pumpkin shapes. Now, switch the orange cookie batter to a piping bag. You can even use a Ziploc bag with the nook snipped off. Gently pipe the batter out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, creating “coronary heart” shapes to resemble pumpkins. You should definitely go away about 2 inches between every pumpkin, to account for spreading.

• Bake. Bake your pumpkin cookies at 375ºF for six minutes. These cookies bake rapidly, and also you need to take them out whereas they’re nonetheless barely underbaked. They need to be simply set, and nonetheless a little bit delicate within the middle.
• Cool. Go away the cookies to chill on the baking sheet for a minute or two earlier than shifting them to a wire rack. Make it possible for the cookies are fully cooled to room temperature earlier than filling them with frosting.

Filling the Whoopie Pies

As soon as your fluffy pumpkin-shaped cookies are baked and cooled, they’re prepared for the cream cheese filling. Assembling these whoopie pies is straightforward to do:

• Make the frosting. Cream collectively butter and cream cheese till the combination is easy and fluffy. Slowly beat in powdered sugar till mixed, then up the blending pace and provides the frosting a great whip. 
• Fill the cookies. Switch the frosting to a piping bag (or one other Ziploc bag). Flip one-half of the cookies in order that their undersides are dealing with upward. Pipe a layer of frosting onto every cookie half, then press a second cookie over the frosting to type a sandwich.

Methods to Beautify Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

As soon as your pumpkin whoopie pies are assembled, you will get inventive with methods to brighten! Listed here are some concepts:

• Pumpkin Stems: Damaged mini pretzels make excellent little pumpkin stems! Break off items and press them into the filling on the high of your pumpkin whoopie pies to create “stalks”.
• Frosting: Make additional cream cheese frosting or a batch of regular buttercream frosting to make use of when adorning your whoopie pies. Coloration the frosting inexperienced to pipe cute little vines and leaves over every cookie.
• Jack-O-Lantern Cookies: For a enjoyable Halloween variation, use black frosting to pipe spooky Jack-O-Lantern faces onto your pumpkin whoopie pies.
• Add-Ons: Use a small quantity of frosting to stick decorations like chocolate chips, M&Ms, or sweet corn onto every cookie.

Recipe Ideas and Variations

Observe the following pointers for one of the best pumpkin whoopie pies, plus some simple variations to attempt:

• Use room temperature elements. Room-temperature butter and cream cheese mix extra easily with the opposite elements, and the cookies will bake extra evenly consequently.
• Don’t overmix the batter. Over-mixing the batter can yield robust, dense cookies.
• Attempt to make the cookies as even-sized as doable. You may make these pumpkin whoopie pies as giant or as small as you’d like, however guarantee that the cookies are comparable in measurement once you pipe them onto the baking sheet. This fashion every cookie can have two halves that match.
• Let the cookies cool fully earlier than including the filling. If the cookies are nonetheless heat, the cream cheese frosting will soften.
• To arrange these whoopie pies a day or two forward, make the cookies and filling, after which retailer the elements individually. You possibly can assemble the pumpkin whoopie pies earlier than serving. This fashion the cookies received’t get soggy or squished throughout storage.
• Add pumpkin spice. Add a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice or floor cinnamon to the cream cheese filling. 
• Use one other filling. You possibly can fill these pumpkin whoopie pies with one other taste of frosting. Attempt my brown sugar frosting, or borrow the maple frosting from my pumpkin cake recipe. 

What to Serve with Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

These delicate, fluffy pumpkin whoopie pies are a scrumptious deal with with a heat mug of espresso, tea, or a comfy pumpkin spice hot chocolate within the afternoon. They’re additionally a enjoyable dessert for Halloween events, fall gatherings, and Thanksgiving. Listed here are some simple concepts:

The way to Retailer

• Fridge: These pumpkin whoopie pies are wonderful to maintain at room temperature should you’re serving them inside 2 hours. As a result of cream cheese filling, nevertheless, it’s finest to maintain them refrigerated after that. Retailer them hermetic for as much as 3-4 days within the fridge.
• Freezer: Wrap your whoopie pies or retailer them hermetic and maintain them frozen for as much as 3 months. Defrost the whoopie pies within the fridge earlier than serving.

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