holiday whoopie pies

Continuing with the holiday baking extravaganza  I present whoopie pies!  I actually made 2 versions of these.  One with a chocolate cookie and vanilla filling.  Another with Andes mints.

Chocolate whoopie pies

Cookies:

4 1/2 cup flour

2 cups butter flavored crisco

1 1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

4 eggs extract

1 TBS baking soda

1 TBS vanilla

1 large box chocolate instant pudding

Cream Crisco and sugars until fluffy.

Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in flour and baking soda.

bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.  the center will still

be a little soft. Do not overbake.  To make whoopie pies, use a scoop so all are the same size.

I also added Andes mint pieces to the batter in another batch.  they were fabulous!

filling:

2 cups Rich's Bettercreme.

1/4 tsp mint extract

Whip together to stiff peaks.

We rolled these in sprinkles, but i think candy cane pieces would be lovely.