Pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese filling

Name: Pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese filling
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 64 min
Total time: 154 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 170 g unsalted butter; ½ tsp baking soda; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; ¼ tsp ground cloves; 227 g full-fat plain cream cheese; 5 ml vanilla extract; 390 g plain wheat flour; 1 tsp ground ginger; 99 g sunflower oil; 1 tsp baking powder; 43 g molasses; ½ tsp ground nutmeg; 2 large egg; 425 g thick plain canned pumpkin purée; 1 tsp fine salt; 425 g soft brown sugar; 227 g icing sugar

Dessert
Oven-baked
American

Soft spiced pumpkin cakes sandwiching a cream cheese filling.

Active time45 min

Cooking1 h 15 min

Total3 hResting : 1 h

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Ingredients

1 tsp ground ginger
170 g unsalted butter
2 large eggs
2 tsp ground cinnamon
5 ml vanilla extract
390 g plain wheat flour
99 g sunflower oil
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground nutmeg
425 g thick plain canned pumpkin purée
1 tsp fine salt
425 g soft brown sugar
227 g icing sugar
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp ground cloves
227 g full-fat plain cream cheese
43 g molasses

Preparation

Step completed · 1
Let the butter soften. Heat the oven to 190 °C. Line trays measuring 46 × 33 cm. Take 113 g butter for the batter and reserve 57 g for the filling. Beat the batter butter with oil, brown sugar, molasses, baking powder, baking soda, salt and all the spices until blended.
Step completed · 2
Beat in the eggs, then the cooked purée. Add flour and mix just until dry streaks disappear. Approximate yield: 12 sandwiches. Scoop mounds of about 67 g, spaced 5 cm apart, without flattening. Keep waiting trays chilled while baking successive batches.
Step completed · 3
Bake each tray for 16 minutes at 190 °C until the cakes are set and spring back lightly. Rotate the tray halfway through. Rest on the tray for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack. Repeat with all the batter. Cool the final batch for another 30 minutes until completely cold.
Step completed · 4
Let the butter soften. Beat the cream cheese with the reserved 57 g butter until smooth. Sift in the icing sugar gradually with the vanilla. Scrape the bowl to mix evenly.
Step completed · 5
Pair the cold cakes by size. Put about 30 g filling on the flat side of one cake and top with another, flat side facing the cream. Chill the whoopie pies for 20 minutes to firm the filling before serving.

Allergens

Eggs
Gluten
Milk

Composition to check for: Celery, Crustaceans, Fish, Lupin, Molluscs, Mustard, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites.

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