Gluten Free Peppermint Crunch Whoopie Pie Recipe

Whoopie Pies are so much like cake, some recipes actually say to use cake mix. I do it from scratch, and they turned out great. Be warned though, they will spread unless you use a Whoopie Pie Pan, which I’m secretly desiring! But either way they came out delicious, and add in some crushed candy canes and it’s just about the perfect treat tonight!

Ingredients: 

• 1 1/4 cups White Rice Flour
• 3/4 cups Tapioca Flour
• 1 cup Sugar
• 2/4 Cup Milk
• 1/2 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa
• 6 Tbsp Melted Butter
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 Egg

Directions: 

1. Preheat your oven 350 degrees. Prepare your cookie pan with a baking mat or parchment paper.
2. In your mixing bowl combine your flours, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt all in your mixer. Your mixture will resemble sand at this point.
3. Add in your milk, melted butter, vanilla and egg. Mix until well combined. Scrape down the sides and mix again for about 2 minutes. Remember this is a cake type cookie – so your dough will look like batter.
4. With a large spoon scoop your batter on to your baking mat. Only put 12 on your cookie sheet.
5. Bake for 7 minutes on the top shelf, then move to the bottom shelf for another 8 minutes.
6. Repeat with any extra cookie dough.
7. Allow to cool on the pan for 10 minutes, move to a wire rack and allow to cool for about 20 minutes – or do what I did, pull up an old Good Eats Episode. That’s exactly as long as they need to cool!

Filling Ingredients:

• 6 Tbsp Butter softened
• 7 oz Marshmallow Cream
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 cup Powdered Sugar
• 1 Candy Cane – Crushed (or 5-6 mini ones)

Directions:

1. In a mixing bowl beat your butter until it is smooth. Add in your powdered sugar and beat until well combined.
2. Add in the Marshmallow Cream and vanilla – beat until smooth.
3. With a large spoon put a large amount of your marshmallow mixture on one cookie. Sprinkle on about 1 tbsp of crushed candy cane. Place another cookie on top and push together to spread out the filling.
4. Repeat until all of your pies are filled!

This recipe is part of the Food Challenge with nine other bloggers. You can check out the recipes below for this challenge! Each month we’ll be doing another challenge – let us know if you try any of the recipes!