Chocolate Whoopie Pie with Strawberry filling

Chocolate, strawberries, and whoopie -what more can one ask for this Valentine's Day? I even made the whoopie pies in a heart shape. I piped the batter onto the cookie sheet and filled the inside with more batter. The filling with the strawberries were a great addition.

Chocolate Whoopie Pie with strawberry filling
Chocolate Whoopie Pie:
8 Tbsp butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup cocoa powder
3 cups flour

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Mix until fluffy.
4. Add the eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until incorporated.
5. Add the buttermilk and the baking soda. Mix until incorporated.
6. In a medium bowl, combine the baking soda, salt, cocoa powder, and flour. Mix until incorporated.
7. Slowly, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix until just incorporated.
8. Scoop the batter with a ice cream scooper onto the parchment paper.
9. Space the batter mounds about 3 inches apart. (Like cookie dough).
10. Bake the batter for 5 minutes. Rotate the pan and cook for another 5 minutes.
11. Remove the pan from the oven and allow to rest on the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe by Jen of Sweet Morris. 

Strawberry filling:
8 Tbsp butter, softened
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla extract
8 oz. marshmallow fluff
1 lb. powdered sugar, whisked/sifted
1 cup strawberries, chopped fine
2 Tbsp milk

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, cream the butter for a minute.
2. Add the salt, vanilla, marshmallow fluff, powdered sugar, and strawberries.
3. Stir until well combined. 
4. Add a little milk at a time until the desired consistency. 
5. (Add a little more powdered sugar if needed depending on the sweetness of the strawberries.)
6. Add a scoop of the filling in between two whoopie cakes. 
7. Gently press to sandwich the cakes to form a whoopie pie.

Recipe by Jen of Sweet Morris.

One year ago............................I made Pirozhki Meat Pies.
Two years ago..........................I made Chicken and Sausage Gumbo.
Three years ago.......................I made Nutella Molten Cake.

Did you already know...................
-The average strawberry has 200 seeds.
-The green top of the strawberry is called a calyx. 
-Madam Tallien (French Revolution aristocrat) was rumored to bath in strawberry juice.