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Monster Whoopie Pies

Servings 10 whoopie pies

Ingredients

Chocolate Cookies:

  • 1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
  • 1/3 C. oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract

Chocolate Frosting:

  • 1 C. butter
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/3 C. unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2 Tbsp. milk
  • 2-3 C. powdered sugar

20 Starbursts, for tongues

White Chocolate Chips, for teeth

10 large marshmallows, for eyes

20 Junior Mints or M&M's, for eyeballs

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with parchment paper.
  2. 2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl, add oil, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Stir until dough forms. It's thick, you'll have to work for your cookies if you stir it by hand :)
  3. 3. Make golf-ball sides dough balls and gently flatten them out a little so that they don't bake up too tall. (You don't have to flatten them as much as in my photos.)
  4. 4. Bake for 6-8 minutes and let cool.
  5. 5. Frosting: Beat butter. Add vanilla extract, unsweetened cocoa powder and milk. Slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
  6. 6. Tongues: Unwrap Starburst squares and heat 2 at a time in the microwave for 5-9 seconds. Each microwave is different, but be careful because they can melt really fast! Remove from microwave and twist and turn the colors together and form a long "tongue" shape. Let cool of parchment paper.
  7. 7. Prep the whites of the eyes by cutting each large marshmallow in half and set down sticky side up.
  8. 8. To assemble (see photos), pipe a small amount of frosting on the bottom of a cookie. Place a "tongue" on the cookie and pipe more frosting on top. Top with another cookie. Use white chocolate chips to make the "teeth." Place marshmallow halves sticky side down onto the cookie. Use a little frosting to stick the Junior Mints on the marshmallows.
  9. NOTE: I placed the top cookie on at a slant like a mouth would open with the tallest point right above the tongue.