Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Coffee Filling

Name: Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Coffee Filling
Yield: Makes 8
Ingredients: 50 g cocoa powder; 5 ml vanilla extract; 475 g icing sugar, sifted; 125 g unsalted butter, softened; 25 g instant coffee granules; 15 ml milk; 225 g butter, softened; 4 large eggs; 225 g castor sugar; 5 ml baking powder; 170 g cake flour

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Zola Nene

Published 2016

About

A self-contained cake that you don’t have to share – now that’s my kind of cake! I love these because they are perfect to eat on the go. I would almost describe whoopie pies as a cupcake sandwich of sorts.

Ingredients

For the sponge

225 g butter, softened
225 g castor sugar
4

Sandwich
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 180 °C and grease two baking trays.
To make the sponge, cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into a separate bowl and th