{"id":387,"date":"2019-03-19T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/?p=387"},"modified":"2020-06-23T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:20:33","slug":"nutty-whoopie-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/nutty-whoopie-pies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutty Whoopie Pies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pi day was last week, since I&#8217;m attempting to study for my PhD qualifying exams I waited until the weekend to bake anything pi\/pie-related. I went with whoopie pies &#8211; I modified a basic recipe and accommodated it for two types of whoopie pies: chocolate peanut butter and vanilla Nutella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oven @ 450F bake for 7 minutes.<br>Cream together wet ingredients with sugar, whip the cream up a bit to make them extra fluffy. Add dry ingredients into the mix. The texture should be more like a cookie dough and less like a batter. Form 1&#8243; diameter balls, squish them down after placing them on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 6-8 minutes. Cool in fridge after baking (remove from pan). Spoon or pipe frosting onto one whoopie half then smush together with another half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients for the chocolate whoopie pie:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u00bd cup unsweetened cocoa powder<\/li><li>2 cups all-purpose flour<\/li><li>1 \u00bd teaspoons baking soda<\/li><li>\u00bd teaspoon baking powder<\/li><li>\u00bd cup salted butter<\/li><li>1 cup sugar<\/li><li>1 egg<\/li><li>1 cup heavy whipping cream<\/li><li>2 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients for the vanilla whoopie pie:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>2 1\/2 cups all-purpose flour<\/li><li>1 \u00bd teaspoons baking soda<\/li><li>\u00bd teaspoon baking powder<\/li><li>\u00bd cup salted butter<\/li><li>1 cup sugar<\/li><li>2 cups all-purpose flour<\/li><li>3 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients for the peanut butter frosting (goes in the chocolate pies):<\/strong><br>(Cream together, if too dry add more peanut butter, if too wet add more powdered sugar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1\/2 stick of salted butter<\/li><li>1 cup powdered sugar<\/li><li>1\/2 cup peanut butter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients for the Nutella frosting (goes in the vanilla pies):<\/strong><br>(Cream together, if too dry add more Nutella, if too wet add more powdered sugar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1\/2 stick of salted butter<\/li><li>1 cup powdered sugar<\/li><li>1\/2 cup Nutella or chocolate hazelnut spread<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9233-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9233-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9233-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9235-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9235-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_9235-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Vanilla Nutella Whoopie Pie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi day was last week, since I&#8217;m attempting to study for my PhD qualifying exams I waited until the weekend to bake anything pi\/pie-related. I went with whoopie pies &#8211; I modified a basic recipe and accommodated it for two types of whoopie pies: chocolate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/nutty-whoopie-pies\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nutty Whoopie Pies<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[36,31,49,50,37,12,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heffern.net\/lena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}