Making Whoopee Pie

Since cupcakes are so last year and whoopie pies are all the rage I decided to spend my Saturday night making whoopie (pies, that is). The first item on the agenda was figuring out what flavor to make. Let's see now. I could make s'more whoopie pies. For that I would make a graham cookie and then fill it with a marshmallow cream something or other and a genache. Genache is always in so far as I am concerned. Or... I might make a banana whoopie pie. I would fill that with a vanilla whipped cream filling. Perhaps a strawberry whoopie filled with a cream cheese, whipped cream, smashed up strawberries? Those ideas will all have to be developed another night. The ideas are fomenting in my tired brain. Hey! Thinking of all these whoopie pies tires a lady out! So for now it is chocolate whoopie pies with peanut butter filling. I am always putty in the hands of chocolate and peanut butter.
Before we get to the recipe, let's get this name straight. Whoopie refers to the pie. Definiton 1 of Whoopee refers to the affection I feel for the sweeties in my life when I spend an evening baking for them. Definiton 2 is from the Newlywed Game. I have no idea what Bob Eubanks was talking about those many, many years ago. I was just a kid.

Making Whoopee Pie

4 Cups flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 Cup cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 Cups sugar
1 Cup butter
2 eggs
1 Cup milk
1 Cup warm water
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preheat oven to 375°,
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cocoa, and salt. Set aside. In a separate bowl combine the butter and sugar, and eggs. Beat 2 minutes. Add the dry ingredients, milk, and water to the egg mixture. Beat at medium speed for 3 minutes. Add vanilla and beat one additional minute. This batter is for a cake like cookie. Bake as drop cookies. Drop by rounded tablespoons full onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the center of the cookie springs back when lightly touched. Remove from cookie sheets and cool completely on wire rack.

Peanut Butter Filling
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 Cup creamy peanut butter
3 1/2 Cups powdered sugar
1/2 Cup milk

Blend butter and peanut butter. Add powdered sugar and milk. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until well blended then beat at high speed until light and fluffy. To make whoopie pies spread the bottom of one cookie generously with filling, then top with another cookie. Wrap each whoopie pie individually in plastic wrap and give them to the peoples you love!