What is a whoopie pie?

A whoopie pie is an American dessert made from two soft rounds of chocolate cake with creamy fillings sandwiched in between.

Whoopie pie with cake mix

For this whoopie pie recipe, I really wanted to make it as easy as possible so I used a store-bought cake mix. Using cake mix saves time in measuring and shopping for a bunch of ingredients. Baking everything from scratch is nice, but when these super easy whoopie pies taste so good, what’s the harm in cutting corners? 🙂 I adapted this recipe from bettycrocker.com and add my own twists.

Whoopie Pie Filling Options

Traditionally, whoopie pie fillings are vanilla buttercream frosting and marshmallow fluff but we can experiment with frosting options. For this recipe, I have two options depending on how much time you are willing to spend.

Option 1 – Use store-bought cake frostings to save time

There’s no shame in wanting to save time. Store-bought frostings are easy to use and come in lots of flavor options.

I also tried whoopie pies with store-bought marshmallow filling by itself, but the cream will melt away from the cake very quickly so it is not recommended unless you eat them immediately.

Option 2 – Make your own buttercream frosting

If you love cream cheese, you’ll love my cream cheese flavored buttercream. It takes extra effort but it’s still easy enough to whip up. Of course, you can make your favorite kind of buttercream as well 🙂

Ingredients

For the chocolate cake

• 1box Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil’s Food cake mix
• 3/4cup milk
• 1/2cup butter, melted
• 3 eggs
• 1box (4-serving size) chocolate instant pudding and pie filling mix

For the filling

Option 1 – Store-bought cake frosting

• 2 containers Betty Crocker Whipped Fluffy White Frosting or any other flavor of your choice

Option 2 – Homemade cream cheese buttercream

• ½ cup butter, softened
• 8oz cream cheese, softened
• 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

For the decoration

• Wilton Valentine’s Day Assorted Shimmer Sprinkles

Instruction

For the chocolate cake

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper, silicone baking liners, or lightly spray with cooking spray.
3. In a large bowl, beat the cake mix, milk, butter, eggs, and the instant pudding mix with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened; beat 1 minute longer on high speed.

4. Pour batter into a 1-gallon Ziploc bag. Seal the bag and cut a small hole off of one of the bottom corners.

5. Pipe batter into 1 to 2-inch circles onto cookie sheets. Then make sure to pipe it at least 1-inch apart to allow spreading. (I piped about 1.5-inch circles and made 40 whoopie pies at the end)

6. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until set. Be careful to not overbake. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets and place on a cooling rack. Cool completely before filling.

For the cream cheese buttercream filling (If you chose to use store-bought frostings, skip to the assembly instruction)

1. In a large bowl, beat softened butter, softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes or until smooth. Cover the bowl and refrigerate until ready to assemble.

For the assembly

1. Once the chocolate cakes are cooled, fill a piping bag or a large Ziploc bag with the filling. Cut a small hole off of one of the bottom corners.
2. Pipe filling on the flat side of one cake. Top with the second cake, flat side down to make a sandwich. Continue until all cakes are used.
3. (Optional) Decorate the whoopie pie with cute sprinkles.

Do whoopie pies need to be refrigerated?

Yes. To avoid the filling melting and keep the whoopie pies fresh, they should be refrigerated in an airtight container. If properly refrigerated, whoopie pies last up to 7 days. If you choose to freeze them in an airtight container, They will last for up to two months.

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Whoopie Pie – Easy Recipe with Cake Mix

This easy whoopie pie recipe is the best!! This recipe uses store-bought cake mix and you can whip these up fast. These whoopie pies are super chocolatey and can be filled with any store-bought frosting or my special cream cheese flavored buttercream.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword whoopie pie

Prep Time 1 hour hour

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

cooling time 1 hour hour

Total Time 2 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings 40 pies

Equipment

• Large bowls
• Cookie Sheets
• Parchment paper / silicone baking liners
• Electric mixer
• 1-gallon Ziploc bag
• Piping bag

Ingredients

For the chocolate cake

• 1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil’s Food cake mix
• ¾ cups milk
• ½ cups butter melted
• 3 eggs large
• 1 box 4-serving size chocolate instant pudding and pie filling mix

For the filling (Option 1 – Store-bought cake frosting)

• 2 containers Betty Crocker Whipped Fluffy White Frosting Or any other flavor of your choice

For the filling (Option 2 – Homemade cream cheese buttercream)

• ½ cups butter softened
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 2½ cups Powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For the decoration (Optional)

• Wilton Valentine’s Day Assorted Shimmer Sprinkles

Instructions

For the chocolate cake

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line cookie sheets with parchment paper, silicone baking liners, or lightly spray with cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, beat the cake mix, milk, butter, eggs, and the instant pudding mix with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened; beat 1 minute longer on high speed.
• Pour batter into a 1-gallon Ziploc bag. Seal the bag and cut a small hole off of one of the bottom corners.
• Pipe batter into 1 to 2-inch circles onto cookie sheets. Then make sure to pipe it at least 1-inch apart to allow spreading. (I piped about 1.5-inch circles and made 40 whoopie pies at the end)
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes until set. Be careful to not overbake. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets and place on a cooling rack. Cool completely before filling.

For the cream cheese buttercream filling (If you chose to use store-bought cake frosting, skip to assembly instruction)

• In a large bowl, beat softened butter, softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes or until smooth. Cover the bowl and refrigerate until ready to assemble.

For the assembly

• Once the chocolate cakes are cooled, fill a piping bag or a large Ziploc bag with the filling. Cut a small hole off of one of the bottom corners.
• Pipe filling on the flat side of one cake. Top with the second cake, flat side down to make a sandwich. Continue until all cakes are used.
• (Optional) Decorate the whoopie pie with cute sprinkles.

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When I went grocery shopping this week, I found a small box of pumpkin spice madeleines. Madeleines are one of my favorite food, so I couldn’t resist getting them… I had different baking plans for this week, but instead of baking something else from scratch, I decided to decorate these madeleines as Totoro! (Don’t you think Totoro and madeleines have similar shapes?) 

With some almond slices, white chocolate, and dark chocolate, I transformed the ordinary looking madeleines into kawaii sweets! Here is how I did it:

Decorating Madeleines

Ingredients (makes 5 Totoro themed madeleines)

• 5 madeleines
• 1 cup White Chocolate Chips
• A few pieces of dark chocolate squares – enough to draw Totoro’s facial features and markings on his chest
• Black food coloring
• Mint leaves (Optional)

Instructions

1. Attach almond slices on the madeleines by stabbing them into the cakes.

2. Put ½ cup of white chocolate chips in a small bowl and cover it with saran wrap. Microwave them about 30 seconds or until the chocolate chips are melted.

3. Add a drop of black food coloring to the melted white chocolate. Mix until the color turns light gray. (Add more food coloring if needed.)

4. Dip madeleines with almond slices into the melted chocolate. Cover the entire top of the madeleines and let them dry on a drying rack.

5. Once the gray chocolate coatings are dry, melt the rest of the white chocolate in the microwave.

6. Dip the madeleines into the melted white chocolate. Cover only the bottom half of the madeleines. Dry them on the drying rack.

7. Transfer any leftover white chocolate into a piping bag. Draw the white part of Totoro’s eyes on the madeleines.

8. Once the white chocolate coatings are dry, melt the few pieces of dark chocolate squares in the microwave. Transfer the melted dark chocolate into a piping bag.

9. Draw markings on Totoro’s chests, eyes and nose with the melted dark chocolate. Let them dry on the drying rack.

10. (Optional) Place mint leaves in between Totoro’s ears.

*To add more to the Totoro theme, I also made some acorn almonds. All I did was dip some almonds into white chocolate that is dyed in light brown, then dried them on parchment paper.

Summary

I’m pretty happy how the ordinary looking madeleines now turned into Totoro themed food! I hope you try this little project and leave me a comment if you do! Happy decorating!

For More Cute Food Ideas

• Hello Kitty Cookies
• Rilakkuma macarons
• Hello Kitty Donuts

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