Cheater's Way Whoopie Pies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (15 -19 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
• 1 (4 ounce) box instant chocolate pudding mix
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 2 egg yolks (reserve egg whites for filling)
• 2 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 4 tablespoons milk
• 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups shortening

Recipe

• 1 1. mix together cake ingredients until well combined. drop (i use a cookie scoop) onto parchment lined baking sheet. bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
• 2 2. for filling, mix first 5 ingredients together. then add shortening and powdered sugar 1 cup at a time.
• 3 3. once cakes are cool, (i use a larger scoop than used for cakes) spread or drop filling between two cakes.
• 4 *for peanut butter whoopie pies mix in 1 cup of peanut butter to the filling.