Sunday night rolled around, and my roommate and I got a sudden urge to bake... whoopie pies! So we looked up whoopie pie recipes and saw that most of them used vegetable shortening and several other ingredients we didn't have/didn't want to get.
So we adjusted the recipe ourselves, ingredient by ingredient, until we came up with...
*Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting*
Above, you will see Chelsea spreading the filling on top of one of the cookies.
Feast your eyes on that.
You can consider this recipe a "Semi-Homemade Cooking with
Step 1:
Get your hands on a package of Betty Crocker cookie mix. Add butter and egg. Stir together. Sample cookie dough. Bake.
Step 2:
The pumpkin cream cheese frosting filling:
*1/4 cup pumpkin puree
*1 cup powdered sugar
*1 stick butter
*4 oz. cream cheese
*1/4 tsp. cinnamon
*1/8 tsp. salt
And spread between the cookies...
So delicious.
hahaa sample and bake... yes.. the baking bug has bit me too and it needs to stop. i have NO willpower when baked goods are laying around my house! we should cook something when we get together!
ReplyDeleteChelsea looks so sexy & sly, love it, you keep up the good work ladies! How fun, I love your creativity...ya'll make baking them look fun!
ReplyDelete...and you inspired me to search and find these
beautiful little bumpkins which look right up your vegan ally.
http://www.namelymarly.com/2010/10/vegan-pumpkin-whoopie-pies/
What do you think, doable?
uhm...why was i not invited over for this?!?
ReplyDeleteomg, those look sooooo good. Wickedly decadent--my favorite. Cream cheese pumpkin combo sounds fantastic.
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