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Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies with creamy peanut butter filling on a cooling rack.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie

Bree Hester
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 whoopie pies
Calories 748 kcal

Ingredients
  

For the dough:

  • 1 – 12 ounce package mini chocolate chips
  • 2 Tablespoons milk
  • 3/4 cup butter room temperature
  • 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 cups flour

For the frosting:

  • 1 cup room temperature butter
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup marshmallow creme
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons milk

Instructions
 

  • Set aside 1/4 cup of the mini chips to sprinkle on the cookies. Melt one cup of the chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons of milk. Microwave on 50% power for one minute or until melted. Set this aside.
    Chocolate chips in a glass measuring cup for baking recipes and desserts.
  • Cream together the butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
    Creaming together butter and peanut butter in a stand mixer for Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie.
  • Add the sugar.
    Adding sugar to a stand mixer for chocolate peanut butter whoopie pie.
  • Add the eggs, 1/2 cup milk, vanilla and melted chocolate.
    Mixing eggs, milk, vanilla, and melted chocolate into the batter for Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies.
  • Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. (You can add the rest of the chocolate chips at this point, but I forgot, I only added the ones to sprinkle at the end.)
    Creamy chocolate mixture being prepared with a stand mixer for baking.
  • Add the batter to the whoopie pie pan or drop onto cookie sheets 2 inches apart. Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chips.
    Adding chocolate peanut butter whoopie pie batter to pan.
  • Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 9 minutes or until the tops are set. Let sit in the pan for one minute and transfer to a rack to cool. Now on to the best part. The frosting.
    Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie cookies cooling on a wire rack.
  • While the cookies are cooling you can get started on the best frosting I have ever had. Cream together the butter and peanut butter. When they are light and fluffy, add the marshmallow creme.
    Creaming butter and peanut butter in a stand mixer for Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie frosting.
  • Add the powdered sugar and until combined. Add the milk until the frosting is the right consistency for spreading.
    Adding powdered sugar to the creamy frosting for Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies.
  • Put a generous blob of frosting on one cookie. Add another cookie and you have a whoopie pie.
    A chocolate peanut butter whoopie pie with fluffy peanut butter frosting, held in a hand.

Nutrition

Calories: 748kcalCarbohydrates: 87gProtein: 12gFat: 43gSaturated Fat: 21gSodium: 473mgFiber: 3g
Keyword Whoopie Pies
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