Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Ha Ha! The 5th consecutive pie post. Congratulations to me although these are actually cookies. I don't know why they call them pies. English is kind of messed up. I looked all over the place to find out why. Even Wiki just says that they are traditionally made from leftover chocolate cake batter - nothing on the name...



I followed this recipe from MarthaStewart.com. Instead of ready-made pumpkin pie spice, I used my own spice mix:

• 2 teaspoons cinnamon


• 1 teaspoon nutmeg


• 1 teaspoon cloves

That's a total of 4 teaspoons of spices. I used have (2 teaspoons) for the cookies and the other half for the frosting. I know, that's 4 times the spice from the recipe, but I like my food spicy.



The cookies came out tender, perfectly spiced and not too sweet - perfect to sandwich with creamy cream cheese frosting. I used my usual cream cheese frosting recipe with added 2 teaspoons of the above spice mix. I didn't think I would need that much. I kept adding spices into the frosting half a teaspoon at a time and ended up using all of it. Cream cheese has its own very strong flavor.



Pumpkin spice cream cheese frosting

• 1 stick butter - room temerature


• 1 cup confectioner sugar


• 1 package 8oz cream cheese


• 2 teaspoon spice mix (see above)

The cookies got a lot of compliments especially how perfectly spiced they were!