Chocolate Mint Whoopie Pies

Submitted by MARIA MAC

"Got this in an e-mail from Taste of Home. Putting it here for safekeeping."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 18 cookies

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 egg
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 cup baking cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons nonfat milk, divided
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 1⁄3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1⁄8 teaspoon mint extract
• 4 drops green food coloring (optional)

directions

1. In a bowl, beat sugar and oil until crumbly. Add egg; beat for 1 minute. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Gradually beat into sugar mixture. Add 2 tablespoons milk; mix well. With lightly floured hands, roll dough into 36 balls.
2. Place 2 inches apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Flatten slightly with a glass coated with cooking spray. Bake at 425° for 5-6 minutes or until edges are set and tops are cracked. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine butter and confectioners' sugar until crumbly. Beat in extract, food coloring in desired and remaining milk. Spread on the bottom of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Reviews

[sassybaker]

I was very disappointed in these. Obviously, A Taste of Home doesn't know what true whoopie pies are. These are just very small soft cookies with a runny mint filling. Whoopie pies are cake like cookies that are bigger than a cookie filled with icing. They tasted good but they didn't taste like whoopie pies either. I grew up on whoopie pies and believe me, these aren't them. They should change the name of these so people won't get confused with the real thing! I will not be making these again.