Week 5 Pumpkin Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

Pumpkin meets Gingerbread with Maple Frosting

Ingredients

3 cups of flour
3 tsp of pumpkin spice mix
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger

2 cups of brown sugar
2 cups of pumpkin puree
1 cup of oil
2 eggs
1 1/2 Tbsp Molasses
1 tsp of maple extract or vanilla

Preheat oven at 350 degrees. You will need two bowls. In a small bowl, combine all dry ingredients together. Combine and mix all wet ingredients with sugar in a larger bowl. Add flour into wet ingredients slowly, mixing after each addition. Continue until all combined. Using parchment paper on cookie sheets or a Silpat. Make cookie size rounds on baking sheet. Continue until all of the dough has been used. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cookies cool.

Maple Frosting

1 cup of room temperature unsalted butter
pinch of salt
1 Tbsp of Maple extract
2-3 Powdered sugar

Cream butter, add a pinch of salt, add tbs of maple extract, add 3 cups of powdered sugar and mix together until fluffy. If needed add 1 tsp of milk until the desired consistency is achieved.

Place frosting in between two cookies to make whoopie pies.