Chocolate Whoopie Pie Recipe With Cherry Filling (2024)

This Chocolate Whoopie Pie Recipe might be the best thing since sliced bread! Two tender, cake-like cookies surround a decadent cherry filling. You are going to fall in love with these whoopie pies!

What Are Chocolate Whoopie Pies?

Whoopie pies or chocolate gobs are two soft, cake-like cookies sandwiched together with a sweet (often vanilla) filling. It is said that children would often yell “whoopie” when they found these little cakes in their lunches and that is how they got their name. Whoopie pies can take on almost any flavor.

I have made Snickerdoodle Whoopie Pies, Mint Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pies, and Lemon Meringue Whoopie pies with huge success.

WHERE IS THE CHOCOLATE WHOOPIE RECIPE?

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How To Make This Whoopie Pie Recipe

This recipe starts with the little cakes. I sift together, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt and set that aside.

In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until combined, and eggs and vanilla. The flour mixture is added to the batter along with milk until the mixture is thick and creamy.

Dollop or pipe the dough on lined baking sheets, you really can make these as small or as large as you want, noting that bake time may vary slightly. The cakes will take about 10 minutes to bake but they will need 5 additional minutes to rest on the baking sheets.

The filling is made by combining butter and powdered sugar and beating them until creamy.

Marshmallow fluff, vanilla, maraschino cherries, and cherry juice (if you like the filling, then check out these cherry sugar cookies!) are mixed in until combined.

Spread or pipe the filling on the bottom of one cake, place a second cake on top.

Whoopie Pie Recipe Tips

I like to use a medium-sized baking cookie scoop to divide my batter onto my baking sheet.

You will know the cakes are done when they spring back when touched.

Add as much or as little chopped cherries and juice to your filling, if you add too much juice and your filling is thin, mix in more powdered sugar one tablespoon at a time.

You can use a cookie scoop or an offset spatula to spread the filling onto the bottom of your cakes.

I was able to get about 18 whoopie pies, this will vary depending on the size of your cakes.

Whoopie pies are best when eaten the same day. Store whoopie pies in the fridge in an airtight container.

To Freeze Whoopie Pies:

Wrap each individual whoopie pie in plastic wrap and then place wrapped pies in an airtight container. Alternatively., place the cakes (no filling) in an even layer in an airtight container, with parchment paper separating each layer. Prepare the filling later when needed.

Freeze the pies for up to 6 months.

If you freeze the pies individually, you can thaw only what you need.

Love Chocolate Cherry Treats? Try:

Chocolate Dipped Cherry Meringues

Cherry Chip Cookies

Black Bottom Cherry Cream Pie