Chewy Oatmeal Whoopie Pies

Whoopie pies are 2 cookies, layered dorsum to back, amongst a thick layer of frosting inwards between. Some convey a cake texture, or then are crunchy too or then (like today's post) are chewy. I similar to wind them individually then the cookies rest on the soft side (plus, since they are pre-wrapped, they are slow to toss into a luncheon box, kind of similar domicile made Little Debbie's oatmeal cookies.

This recipe has the wonderful taste of "oatmeal too autumn" spices. It is also a cookie you lot tin easily brand fifty-fifty if the pantry is running low on everything because at that spot are no "special" ingredients inwards these whoopie pies.

2 cups dark-brown saccharide (I similar nighttime brown)
3/4 loving cup butter (room temperature)
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
i teaspoon soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon soil nutmeg
i teaspoon vanilla extract
i teaspoon baking powder
i teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons boiling water
2½ cups all role flour
2 cups quick cooking oats

Preheat oven to 350 too spray cookie sheets amongst vegetable spray (I don't spray, I merely utilisation parchment paper).

Cream together the butter, dark-brown sugar, eggs, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and boiling water. Beat until mixture is lite inwards color too fluffy.

Beat inwards the flour too oats. Let mixture sit down for virtually v minutes.

Roll into balls virtually the size of a pocket-sized walnut. These cookies don't "spread" a lot, then you lot tin infinite them virtually 3" apart. Just endeavor too brand them however size.

Place the cookie dough balls on a prepared cookie canvas too bake at 350 for x minutes. The cookies volition await similar they require or then other distich of minutes, but they don't. Remove them from the cookie canvas too house on a cooking rack. If the cookies are puffed up... real lightly tap the piece of employment yesteryear of the cookie amongst the dorsum of a fork. Cool cookies completely.

COOKIE FILLING

i loving cup butter (room temperature)
2 teaspoons vanilla
iv cups powdered sugar
iv tablespoons milk

Mix everything (starting amongst solely iii tablespoons milk) too add together the other tablespoon if the frosting is likewise stiff.

Use the frosting, generously, to "glue" 2 cookies together.