Chocolate Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
These Chocolate Gingerbread Whoopie Pies will have everyone oohing and aahing. Sweet chantilly filling inside two chocolate gingerbread cake cookies decorated to look like gingerbread men creates a sweet treat full of holiday flavor AND spirit.
The holidays are as much about sweet treats as they are about family and friends, and every year, we strap on our baking hats and start making the season merry and bright. A popular treat among those who know us is this whoopie pie recipe. It’s sweet, delicious, and easier than you might think.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple Ingredients: This recipe uses basic baking ingredients, so there’s nothing fancy.
- Easy: The cookies and filling are both easy to make and decorating the cookies is simple.
- Festive: These cookies are loaded with holiday flavor and absolutely adorable.
🛒Ingredients
It only takes a few simple baking ingredients to make this recipe, and you can find them all in your kitchen or local grocery store. They’re all listed here, but you can find their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Flour
- Salt
- Cocoa powder
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Unsalted butter – room temperature
- Granulated sugar
- Egg
- Milk
- Vanilla
- Pumpkin spice mix (optional)
- Chantilly cream
🔪 How to Make Chocolate Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Making these whoopie pies is a very straightforward affair. The cookies are quick and easy, and decorating them is a breeze!
Step 1: Prep
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray baking sheets with nonstick spray. Set them aside.
Step 2: Combine the Dry Ingredients
Sift the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl.
Step 3: Combine the Wet Ingredients
Whisk the butter and sugar in a stand mixer or with an electric mixer until fluffy. Then, add the egg and whisk until just combined.
Step 4: Make the Batter
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix with a spatula until just combined. It will be fluffy and slightly sticky, like a very thick cake batter.
Step 5: Pipe
Add the batter to a piping bag and pip the batter into gingerbread man shapes on the prepared baking sheets.
Step 6: Bake
Bake for 7 minutes until the gingerbread men have risen in the middle.
Step 7: Cool
Let the gingerbread men cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheet. Then, transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Step 8: Make the Whoopie Pies
Add chantilly cream to half the gingerbread men, then top them with the remaining gingerbread men. Decorate with more chantilly cream or white chocolate.
📝Variations
- Filling: You can use chantilly cream, whipped cream, or frosting to fill these whoopie pies.
- Traditional Shape: If you don’t feel like piping out a complicated shape, just pipe the cookies out into regular circles.
- Ginger: Try adding a little ginger to make a gingerbread flavor cake.
If you think these sound good, then check out our other delicious, easy gingerbread whoopie pies.
🥄 Equipment
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Mixing bowls
- Hand mixer or stand mixer
- Wire cooling rack
- Baking sheets
🥫 Storage
Refrigerate these whoopie pies for up to 4 days in an air-tight container. Bring to room temperature before serving.
What to Serve with Chocolate Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Serve these with milk, coffee, or tea, or add them to a larger dessert table for the holidays alongside other treats like cupcakes, cakes, pies, cookies, and more.
💭 Tips
- Your batter will be thick and tacky. It’s supposed to be!
- A stand mixer or hand mixer is your best friend for this batter.
- Be sure to either line your baking sheets with parchment paper or spray them with non-stick spray, or your gingerbread cakes will not hold when you try to remove them.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Whoopie pies are sweet treats made with a filling of frosting, whipped cream, or custard between to small, hand-held cakes.
You probably used too much flour. It’s important to measure your flour correctly to ensure you don’t use too much.
Loosely spoon the flour into your measuring cup and level it off with a knife. Never scoop the flour out with your measuring cup. It compacts and you’ll use too much.
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🧾Recipe Card
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Chocolate Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Equipment
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
- mixing bowls
- hand mixer or stand mixer
- Wire cooling rack
- Baking sheets
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- pinch salt
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice mix optional
- 1 cup chantilly cream or whipped cream or vanilla frosting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F (200C).
- Sift together the flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder.
- In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer or stand mixer, whisk soft butter and sugar until it gets
- fluffy.
- Add one egg and whisk until just combined.
- Add dry ingredients and milk to the egg mixture, mix with spatula until combined.
- Mixture will be fluffy and slightly sticky like a very thick cake batter.
- Using piping bag, pipe gingerbread man shaped batter onto prepared baking sheets.
- Cook for 7 minutes until it rises in the middle.
- Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
- Sandwich 2 cakes together with the frosting (creme chantilly).
- Decorate with creme chantilly, you can also use melted white chocolate to decorate.
