Description
These Easy Christmas Whoopie Pies are a festive and delightful treat featuring soft, chocolatey cookie rounds filled with a creamy, fluffy marshmallow cream cheese filling. Perfect for holiday celebrations, they are simple to make with a box cake mix and can be decorated with red and green colored fillings for a cheerful Christmas touch.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies:
- 1 15.25 oz box devil’s food cake mix
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup oil
Marshmallow Filling:
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 7 oz marshmallow fluff
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- Red gel food color
- Green gel food color
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line two large cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside for baking.
- Make Cookie Dough: In a large bowl, stir together the devil’s food cake mix, eggs, and oil until the mixture is well combined. The batter will be thick, which is normal for this recipe.
- Form Cookie Balls: Using a tablespoon, scoop out cookie dough and roll it into balls. Place the dough balls onto the prepared cookie sheets, spacing them about 1.5 inches apart to allow for spreading during baking.
- Flatten Dough Balls: Slightly flatten each dough ball using the palm of your hand or the bottom of a glass sprayed with non-stick spray, pressing gently to create cookie shapes.
- Bake Cookies: Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the edges are set but the centers remain soft. After baking, let the cookies cool on the sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before filling.
- Prepare Marshmallow Filling: In the bowl of a stand mixer or with a hand mixer, beat together the softened cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, vanilla extract, and a pinch of salt until the mixture is smooth and creamy, with no lumps.
- Color the Filling: Divide the filling evenly into two separate bowls. Add 4-5 drops of red gel food coloring to one bowl and mix thoroughly until evenly colored with no streaks. Repeat the process in the second bowl using green gel food coloring.
- Pipe Filling onto Cookies: Spoon each colored filling into separate piping bags. Pipe the red filling onto the bottom of six completely cooled cookies. Repeat with the green filling on six more cookies. Then, sandwich each filled cookie with remaining plain cookies to complete the whoopie pies.
- Serve and Enjoy: Serve the festive whoopie pies immediately or store as instructed. These treats are perfect for holiday parties or as a delightful gift.
Notes
- Storage: Store whoopie pies in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days to keep them fresh.
- Rolling Dough: If the dough becomes too sticky to handle, chilling it briefly can make rolling easier.
- Filling Variations: You can omit the food coloring for a classic white filling or experiment with other colors to match different occasions.
- Baking Time: Be careful not to overbake, as you want the cookies to remain soft and cakey.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 whoopie pie
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 260mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 36g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
