Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
Dark Chocolate Cookies:
- Pillsbury® Dark Chocolate Premium Cake Mix
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1/2 C. oil
Peppermint Cream Cheese Filling:
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 1/4 C. butter softened
- 1 tsp. peppermint extract
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2-3 C. powered sugar
6-8 candy canes, crushed
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, brown sugar and oil until smooth. Dough will be thick.
- 3. Make small dough balls and place on cookies sheets. gently press down on each dough ball to flatten a little (cake mix cookies bake really tall unless you flatten them out.)
- 4. Bake for 6-10 minutes depending on how large each dough ball is (walnut-sized to golf ball-sized)
- 5. Let cool.
- 6. Cream cheese filling: Beat cream cheese and butter. Add vanilla and peppermint extract and slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
- 7. Frost the bottoms on half of your cookies. Then use an unfrosted cookie to "sandwich" your filling in between the two cookies.
- 8. Roll the edges in a bowl of crushed candy canes. (Crush your candy canes in a blender, it's really fast that way!)
- 9. Enjoy! (You can place in a tupperware in the fridge until ready to serve! They taste great chilled!)