Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling

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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling


Makes 12-14

3 cups AP Flour
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup Splenda (use could white sugar if you like)
1 cup vegetable oil
1 - 15 oz. can of pumpkin
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat together brown sugar, Splenda, oil and pumpkin. Add eggs one at time,
mixing well after each addition, followed by the vanilla.

In a separate bowl, shift together the dry ingredients. Slowly incorporate
the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined.

Using a pastry bag with a round tip, or a big zip top plastic bag with one
corner snipped, squeeze out concentric circles of batter, starting from the
middle and working outward until the circles are about 2 inches in diameter.
Bake for 11 minutes and cool on a rack.

Cream Cheese Filling
1 - 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened
1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 - 16 oz. package of powdered sugar
about a capful of vanilla extract
pinch of cinnamon (to taste)


Beat together cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar, vanilla and
cinnamon. Frost flat side of half the pies and top with another piece.