Chewy Oatmeal Whoopie Pies

Whoopie pies are 2 cookies, layered dorsum to back, alongside a thick layer of frosting inwards between. Some bring a cake texture, roughly are crunchy as well as roughly (like today's post) are chewy.  I similar to roll them individually then the cookies remain on the soft side (plus, since they are pre-wrapped, they are tardily to toss into a tiffin box, form of similar dwelling made Little Debbie's oatmeal cookies.

This recipe has the wonderful taste of "oatmeal as well as autumn" spices. It is also a cookie y'all tin dismiss easily brand fifty-fifty if the pantry is running low on everything because at that topographic point are no "special" ingredients inwards these whoopie pies.

2 cups chocolate-brown saccharide (I similar night brown)
3/4 loving cup butter (room temperature)
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
ane teaspoon dry soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon dry soil nutmeg
ane teaspoon vanilla extract
ane teaspoon baking powder
ane teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons boiling water
2½ cups all role flour
2 cups quick cooking oats

Preheat oven to 350 as well as spray cookie sheets alongside vegetable spray (I don't spray, I merely job parchment paper).

Cream together the butter, chocolate-brown sugar, eggs, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and boiling water. Beat until mixture is lite inwards color as well as fluffy.

Beat inwards the flour as well as oats. Let mixture sit down for most five minutes.

Roll into balls most the size of a pocket-size walnut.  These cookies don't "spread" a lot, then y'all tin dismiss infinite them most 3" apart. Just travail as well as brand them silent size.

Place the cookie dough balls on a prepared cookie canvas as well as bake at 350 for x minutes.  The cookies volition await similar they ask roughly other twosome of minutes, but they don't. Remove them from the cookie canvas as well as house on a cooking rack. If the cookies are puffed up... real lightly tap the overstep of the cookie alongside the dorsum of a fork.  Cool cookies completely.

COOKIE FILLING

ane loving cup butter (room temperature)
2 teaspoons vanilla
four cups powdered sugar
four tablespoons milk

Mix everything (starting alongside solely iii tablespoons milk) as well as add together the other tablespoon if the frosting is equally good stiff.

Use the frosting, generously, to "glue" 2 cookies together.

Wrap cookies individually or proceed them inwards an airtight container then the cookies volition remain chewy as well as non crunchy.