Chocolate Whoopie Pies With Fresh Strawberries And Bruleed Marshmallows Recipes

CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425. Lightly coat cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whoopie Pies: In a mixing bowl, beat sugar and oil until crumbly. Add eggs and beat well. In separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
• Gradually beat flour mixture into sugar mixture. Add milk and mix together well.
• With lightly lightly floured hands, roll dough into 1 1/2" balls. Place balls 2" apart onto cookie sheets lightly sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Flatten balls slightly with bottom of lightly greased flat-bottom glass.
• Bake at 425 for 5-6 minutes or until tops are cracked. Cool for 3 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool.
• Filling: In a mixing bowl, beat together butter and confectioners' sugar. Beat in milk and extract until fluffy.
• Pipe filling using pastry bag (or spread w/ knife) on to flat bottom of cooled whoopie pie and top with another whoopie pie to make a sandwich.

CHOCOLATE-STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Beat first 4 ingredients with mixer until blended. Drop 2 Tbsp. batter, 2 inches apart, into 32 mounds on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 10 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out almost clean. Cool on baking sheets 3 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Beat cream cheese and marshmallow creme in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add COOL WHIP; beat on low speed just until blended.
• Spread about 2 Tbsp. COOL WHIP mixture onto bottom side of each of 16 cookies. Top with strawberries and remaining cookies.