Chocolate Whoopie Cakes
 
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Soft and fudgy gluten free cookies with light and fluffy cream frosting. Tastes like your cake box "homemade Oreos".
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 22-24
Ingredients
  • For Cookies:
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup plus 3 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon gluten free oat flour
  • ½ cup potato starch
  • ½ cup tapioca starch
  • ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup cocoa powder
  • For Frosting:
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 2½ cups powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons almond milk (original)
  • pinch of salt
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. In a stand mixer beat together eggs, oil, and sugar until sugar is dissolved (about 2 minutes). Add water and vanilla to the mixture and beat to combine.
  3. In a smaller mixing bowl sift together oat flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder.
  4. Add flour mixture into stand mixer and mix into wet mixture until thoroughly combined. Dough will be thick and sticky.
  5. On a parchment paper lined cookie sheet drop 1 inch balls with a cookie scoop 2 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-11 minutes until slightly set and puffy.
  6. Immediately slide parchment paper, with cookies, off onto a cooling rack and allow to completely cool before assembling.
  7. To make frosting, beat shortening until light and fluffy. Add vanilla, salt and 1½ cups of the powdered sugar. Beat until combined. Add almond milk and beat until incorporated. Add remaining cup of powdered sugar and beat until combined. Add more almond milk (thinner) or powdered sugar (thicker) for desired consistency.
  8. Assemble cookies by putting about 2 teaspoons of frosting on half of the cookies (the bottom side) and topping with remaining cookies.
  9. Store leftover cookies in fridge or freezer.
Recipe by Breezy Bakes at https://www.breezybakes.com/chocolate-whoopie-cakes/