Mickey Pumpkin Whoopie Pie Recipe
Mickey Pumpkin Whoopie Pie
Pumpkin flavored Whoopie Pie in shape of your favorite mouse
Ingredients
- Mixing bowls
- Whisk
- Electric mixer
- Wooden spoon
- 2 cups flour (for gluten-free try Bob's Red Mill flour used by Disney)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup cooked pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pastry bag with 3/4-inch or so opening (or large plastic food storage bag with a lower corner snipped)
- Baking sheets
- Parchment paper
- Cooling rack
- Cream cheese frosting (homemade or store bought)
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl , whisk together the flour (for gluten-free try Bob's Red Mill flour used by Disney), baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, and salt.
- In a second mixing bowl , beat the butter and brown sugar together until creamy.
- Beat in the egg, pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract.
- Stir the flour (for gluten-free try Bob's Red Mill flour used by Disney) mixture into the butter mixture.
- Spoon the batter into the pastry bag.
- For the Mickey faces, pipe 2.5-inch blobs of batter on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, spacing them evenly apart. Remember, you need two for each whoopie pie. Use a clean fingertip to gently flatten the blobs into uniform circles.
- Pipe small ear blobs at the top of each batter face, keeping them as close in size as possible. Again, use a wet fingertip to flatten them.
- Bake the Mickey pumpkin cakes until they spring back when you press down on the center (about 8 to 10 minutes).
- Let them cool on the baking sheet slightly before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Spoon cream cheese frosting into a pastry bag.
- Pair up the baked pumpkin cakes, matching the shapes and sizes as best you can.
- Working with one pair at a time, turn one of the cakes face down and pipe moderate mounds of frosting on the face and ears.
- Top the frosted cake with its match and gently press down to spread the filling and hold the whoopie pie together.
- Store leftover whoopie pies in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
