Apple Pecan Whoopie Pie Recipe
Yummy yum yum!!! That is the best way to describe these cookie/cake sandwiches with sweet vanilla buttercream frosting piped in between each whoopie cookie.
We discovered whoopie pies on a road trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. I was three months pregnant and during a pit stop was craving a donut. Unable to find said donut up in New Hampshire, my husband came back to the car with a whoopie pie. Seriously, I had never heard of a whoopie pie before this trip. Of course, having the ridiculous sweet tooth I have, I fell in love with them. While in Maine, I found a book on whoopie pies and purchased it.
The frosting is a sweet and basic vanilla buttercream. I like jazzing it up a bit so instead of vanilla extract, I sometimes use my Praline Liqueur as a replacement. It gives an extra pecan and vanilla flavor. You should make this liqueur because it is good, but now you can use it in another recipe which makes i more and more invaluable.
Cost to make this recipe.
I calculated this dessert cookie recipe to cost about $9.52 for the batch or about $1.06 per whoopie pie. Apples and pecans make most of the price expensive. Growing these ingredients as we do can save money, making the apple pie whoopie pie. I can reduce the cost to $5.59 for the entire batch or $0.62 per whoopie pie.
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This recipe is adapted from Whoopies!: Fabulous Mix-and-Match Recipes for Whoopie Pies cookbook. All images and text are all my own and original to One Acre Vintage Homestead – Pumpkin Patch Mountain Homestead.
Apple and Pecan Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 whole apples, grated or minced…[$1.50]
- 1 tsp. lemon juice, …[$0.02]
- 1 stick butter, softened…[$1.00]
- 1 cup white granulated sugar, …[$0.28]
- ½ tsp. almond or vanilla extract, …[$0.60]
- 1 large egg, …[$0.24]
- ½ cup milk, …[$0.12]
- 2½ cups all purpose flour, …[$0.58]
- 2½ tsp. baking powder, …[$0.10]
- ½ tsp. salt, …[$0.04]
Frosting
- ¾ cup pecans, chopped small…[$2.43]
- 1 stick butter, …[$1.00]
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract or praline liqueur, …[$0.35]
- 3½ cups powdered sugar, …[$1.19]
- ½ tbsp. milk or cream, …[$0.07]
Instructions
Cookies
- Peel and grate or mince apples. Put in bowl with lemon juice and set aside.
- Cream butter, sugar, and extract together until a smooth texture is reached. Blend egg, milk, flour, baking powder, and salt together for another 3 minutes. Fold in cut apples.
- Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out and plop cookies on greased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 °F for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are firm to the touch.
- Take cookies out and cook immediately on wire rack.
Frosting
- Chop and toast pecans in oven at 350 °F until golden brown. Keep eye on pecans so to not burn.
- Cream remaining ingredients until all ingredients are incorporated evenly. Make sure frosting is thick and firm. It will hold up to cookies better. So less milk is best.
- Frost cool cookie with frosting (I like to use a piping bag) and lay another on top. Press cooled toasted pecans into the side of frosting.
- Refrigerate to keep frosting firm.