Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

Gingerbread Whoopie Pies amongst Lemon Cream Cheese Filling – soft in addition to sweetness in addition to loaded amongst gingerbread flavour amongst the perfect lemon filling!

Back inwards the day, earlier blogging total time, I occasionally traveled on concern from Tennessee to Portland, Maine.  Whenever I planned a see to the area, my co-workers requested that I convey dorsum a bakery box total of authentic whoopie pies for them to share.  This was life earlier 9-11 in addition to flight was much easier.  Those authentic whoopie pies were enormous chocolate cream filled delights in addition to it made me real happy to deliver them fresh – door to door.

The 1 affair I’ve never understood virtually Whoopie Pies, is the name.  They’re soft similar cake, in addition to sandwiched together similar a cookie, in addition to they are non at all similar a pie.  These treats accept several names typical to dissimilar regions around the country, but I’ll e'er associate them amongst my visits to Portland, Maine, habitation of the world’s largest Whoopie Pie weighing inwards at 1,062 pounds.  That’s a lot of Whoopie!

 

For your gingerbread craving

As much every bit I dear chocolate, I’ve been craving gingerbread in addition to well, it’s the holidays.  I needed a seize amongst teeth of gingerbread in addition to a drink of spiked egg nog thence I was off to the kitchen to bake these super easy, soft, spicy in addition to delightful Gingerbread Whoopie Pies amongst Lemon Cream Cheese Filling.

 

These are the perfect size, simply virtually 3 proficient bites.  A bit of tangy lemon zest inwards the filling actually brightens the warm spices in addition to molasses.

 

 

Uncomplicated to brand in addition to super tardily to consume – they are the perfect vacation treat!

 

 

 

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Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

Prep Time

1 hr 15 mins

Cook Time

11 mins

Total Time

1 hr 26 mins

 

Soft gingerbread whoopie pies amongst a lemony cream cheese filling - a wonderful vacation treat!

Course:

Cookie, Dessert

Servings: 26 sandwich cookies

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the gingerbread:

• 
  2
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  2
  teaspoon
  ground cinnamon
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  ground ginger
  


• 
  ½
  teaspoon
  ground all-spice
  


• 
  ½
  teaspoon
  fresh the world nutmeg
  


• 
  ¾
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  ½
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  ¾
  cup
  light chocolate-brown sugar,
  packed
  


• 
  8
  tablespoon
  unsalted butter,
  melted
  


• 
  ¼
  cup
  unsulphured molasses
  


• 
  3
  tablespoons
  crystallized ginger,
  chopped fine
  


• 
  1
  large egg
  


• 
  ¼
  cup
  buttermilk
  

For the filling:

• 
  6
  ounces
  cream cheese,
  cut into 6-8 pieces, room temperature
  


• 
  6
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  pure vanilla extract
  


• 
  2
  cups
  powdered sugar, sifted
  plus extra for garnish (measure, thence sift)
  


• 
  zest of 1 lemon
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, spices, baking soda, in addition to salt.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a split large bowl, combine the chocolate-brown sugar, melted butter, molasses in addition to crystallized ginger. Whisk until combined. Add the egg in addition to buttermilk in addition to go along to whisk until blended.
   
   


3. 
   
   Add the flour mixture in addition to flexure together using a prophylactic spatula. Do non over mix.
   
   


4. 
   
   Cover the bowl amongst plastic roll in addition to refrigerate for 1 hr or overnight.
   
   


5. 
   

   Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a baking canvass amongst parchment newspaper or a silpat mat. Using a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop, ringlet the dough into a ball in addition to house 2-inches apart on the mutual depression temperature baking sheet. Bake until the cookies are puffy, virtually 11-12 minutes. Let the cookies cool inwards the baking canvass for v minutes earlier transferring to a wire rack to cool.

   
   


6. 
   
   Repeat amongst the remaining dough using a mutual depression temperature baking canvass each time.
   
   


7. 
   

   To gear upward the filling, crunch together the 6 tablespoons butter amongst 1 loving cup of powdered sugar. Once polish in addition to blended, add together the remaining 1 loving cup of powdered saccharide in addition to mix until incorporated. With the mixer running on medium, add together the cream cheese 1 slice at a fourth dimension thence add together the vanilla in addition to lemon zest. Pipe onto one-half the cookies in addition to laissez passer on amongst a matching size cookie, bottom side down.

   
   


8. 
   

   Sprinkle amongst powdered saccharide in addition to serve.

   
   

Recipe Notes

Refrigerate leftover cookies inwards an airtight container.

Cookie recipe adapted from December/January 2016 Cook's Country Magazine

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