Teresa’s Bake Shop – Christmas Cookie edition – 2012
This cookie is to die for! Rich, decadent, amazing! I reblogged this amazing cookie last summer and finally got around to making it for the holidays. I took it last night to our church’s holiday fine arts and music gala as I had 2 dessert tables loaded down with assorted Christmas cookies for folks to enjoy during intermission. I had several people rave about this cookie and others wanted to take them home to eat.
This wonderful chocolate cookie has a scrumptious chocolate chip cookie dough filling, but the great thing about this chocolate chip cookie dough filling is it has no eggs so there’s no chance of salmonella poisoning. The icing is extremely rich and I applied it about a half-inch thick. This whoopie pie was spectacular and one we will make many times in the future.
There are only a few changes I recommend for making this cookie. First of all, I found the original cookie recipe a little fragile and broke apart rather easily. I recommend adding flour to make it a little firmer and have more body and texture. I also doubled the ingredients because I wanted to make more than just 1 1/2 dozen whoopie pies. Also, I just spread the whoopie pie filling on the back of cookies with a knife rather than piping it onto the cookie from a pastry bag. Although that would look more professional and elegant, I chose to put it on the old-fashioned way.
I found this recipe at Kay’s Sweet Obsessions. Kay’s source for the whoopie pies was here. Kay’s source for the whoopie pie filling was Cookies and Cups. I think you will really enjoy these amazing whoopie pies. Give them a try soon and watch your company swoon.
Here’s a look at these delicious whoopie pies.
If you’re looking for a wonderful chocolate cookie with chocolate chip cookie dough icing in the middle this cookie is worth a try.
Here’s a tray of these spectacular whoopie pies.
Take these treats along to a holiday party and you will have people begging for more.
Here’s what I did.
Soften butter and place in mixing bowl.
Add Crisco shortening. Don’t use cheap substitutes.
Add brown sugar.
Add eggs.
Add vanilla.
Add salt and baking soda.
Add cocoa.
Add milk.
Mix all the ingredients together with an electric mixer.
Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods. I did not add extra flour in this batch but I’ve increased it in the recipe so that the next time I make this it will have more flour to firm up the cookie a little so it will be less fragile.
I dropped the cookie dough onto well-sprayed cookie sheets. Bake cookies at 350 for about 10-12 minutes or until cookie springs back gently when pressed.
Meanwhile, make icing ingredients. Soften butter. This is melted too much.
Add brown sugar.
Add white sugar.
Add milk.
Add vanilla.
Mix all the ingredients together with an electric mixer.
Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods.
Add chocolate chips or miniature chocolate chips. Either will work.
Stir flour and chocolate chips into batter with a wooden spoon. Don’t use an electric mixer as that will toughen the dough. Because this recipe does not have eggs in the cookie dough batter you won’t have to worry about salmonella poisoning.
Here’s what the cookies look like after baking.
Here’s a close up so you can see the texture.
Spread chocolate chip cookie dough onto the bottom of the whoopie pies.
Place another whoopie pie on top of the cookie dough filling.
Here’s what that looks like.
Here’s a plate of these amazing whoopie pies.
These are great for company and Christmas baking.
Consider adding these tasty treats to you holiday baking list this year.
Here’s another close up so you can see the texture.
Take these along to your office parties and everyone will rave about the taste of these amazing whoopie pies.
Here’s the recipe.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH WHOOPIE PIES
(Recipe adapted from Kay’s Sweet Obsessions. Source: Whoopie Pie Recipe – Whoopie Pies Book / Cookie Dough Recipe – Cookies & Cups)
For the Whoopie Pie:
4 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (I’ve added more so the cookie won’t be quite so fragile)
1 1/3 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup Crisco vegetable shortening
2 cups (packed) dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups milk
For the Filling:
2 cups butter, room temperature
2 cups (packed) light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup milk
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour
12-oz. pkg. chocolate chips or miniature chocolate chips
For the Whoopie Pie: Preheat oven to 350°. Beat together the butter, shortening, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking soda, milk and cocoa until well blended with electric mixer. Stir in UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour with wooden spoon. Bleached flour toughens baked goods and using a mixer at this point also toughens baked goods. Spray cookie sheets heavily with cooking spray. Drop a couple of tablespoons of batter onto prepared baking sheets spacing them about 2 inches apart. Bake at 350° for about 10-12 minutes, or until pies spring back when pressed gently. Remove from oven and let cookies cool.
For the Filling: While the whoopie pies are baking, start the filling. In a mixer, cream together butter, both sugars, vanilla extract and milk. Add flour and chocolate chips and stir into batter with wooden spoon. After cookies cool completely, spread the bottom of a cookie with a couple of tablespoons of chocolate chip cookie dough filling. Place the bottom of another cookie on top of the filling and press down slightly. Makes about 3 dozen whoopie pies.
Here’s a stack of these delicious whoopie pies.
Here’s a close up look at the whoopie pies. Lots of fantastic chocolate chip cookie dough in each bite.
Your family and holiday guests will love these amazing cookies.
This decadent chocolate chip cookie dough filling is to die for!
Go ahead and try one. They are amazing.
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It is cookie dough you know I don’t want to eat raw cookie dough
this does not have any raw eggs in it.
ReAlly bad gross
Not sure what’s not to like in this recipe. It doesn’t have raw eggs in this cookie dough and I kept my cookies refrigerated so they turned out wonderful.
Chocolate cookies with chocolate chip cookie dough inside. I’m sold! Need to make these soon!
They were SO fabulous. Words can’t even describe how wonderful they tasted. You can pipe the frosting on if you want them to look prettier. Everyone who came by my dessert table and had one of these cookies brought other people to the table to get one! LOL!
I think I would have to share this one with a friend. Man those are some good looking cookies.
These are SO rich! You probably shouldn’t eat more than a quarter of one at any given time to prevent sugar-induced coma! Yes, when I bake a bunch of these I share them and don’t leave them here for me to eat all by myself!
You are an amazing cookie maker.
I’m scared to eat one, because I think the flood gates will open and I’ll need another…and another….and, well…I don’t have pants with elastic waists! Wow, they look amazing and I’m gona have to make these soon. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this?
They are amazing! I recommend you make them for a party or company or something where you can save out a couple for yourself and give the rest away!
They are so rich if you ate more than one or two you probably would go into a diabetic coma!
Teresa, I love how these whoopie pies look — love how each one is different and unique in shape and a joy to savor with each bite! I’m ready to look the center around each whoopie pie!!!!!
Thanks. They aren’t as pretty as they would be if I piped the filling but I did slather on the icing pretty thick. Everyone who tasted one last night just loved them!
Teresa they looked wonderful!!!!!
Thanks!