When I bought Wilton Whoopie Pie Pan on a whim the other day, I kind of felt like I may have thrown away a few bucks, as I had no intention of making whoopie pies.
Oh was I so so wrong. This is my new found holy grail of cookie pans. I am way to flipping excited about this pan, like abnormally profess my love in front of everyone excited. I may have even run out and purchased the Heart Whoopie Pie Pan. Hell, I may even make whoopie pies! It’s that fabulous.
I LOVE to make cookies in the muffin top pan (a la Jenny over at the oh so awesome Picky Palate). But let’s face it, those are some BIG cookies and my seven year old gets all kinds of bent when I tell her she can only have half a cookie (even if the cookie is approximately the size of her head). The whoopie pie pan is the amazing middle ground. Perfect uniform sized cookies in a “sure you can have the entire cookie because I’m such an awesome mom” size.
So anyways, now that I have hopefully conveyed my (somewhat disturbing) love of this pan – let’s talk about the cookies I made! I used Jenny’s Picky Palate Recipe for XXL M&M Cookies (though we should probably revise it to L-XL M&M Cookies).
XXL M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks softened butter
3/4 Cup sugar
1 Cup packed light brown sugar
2 extra large eggs
2 Tablespoons pure vanilla
3 3/4 Cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
12 oz bag chocolate chips
1 bag M&M’s (you’ll have some left over) & various sprinkles
(I added 1/2 tsp of baking powder to her recipe)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer beat the butter and sugars until well beaten. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined. Place flour, baking soda and salt into a large bowl; mix.
(I try to be really festive and match my baking supplies and materials to the holiday. Okay, that’s a lie – at Halloween I’ll still be baking with red and pink items, at which time it won’t look nearly as cute in photos).
Slowly add to wet ingredients along with the chocolate chips. Do not mix in M&M’s or sprinkles in with the batter – they go on last.
I separated the M&Ms because I just wasn’t completely loving the mauve tone pink with the red. And yes, I felt like a roadie for Van Halen on the 1984 tour while doing so.
Press dough into whoopie pie pan, than press M&M’s or sprinkles onto the top of each cookie and bake.
Mine took about nine minutes each (and I prefer mine slightly underdone).
And out come the cutest chocolate chip Valentine cookies!
I let mine cool about ten minute in the pan before pulling them out. They came out SUPER easily, the non-stick is actually, well, non-stick. A refreshing change of pace in my non-stick experience. I was able to get 34 cookies out of the recipe. Truth be told I’m sure you can get three dozen out of it IF you do not eat two cookies worth of dough for lunch. Trust me.
Awww… So cute I almost couldn’t eat it. But I got over that.
I mentioned I love the pan, right? Seriously – buy the pan! Cute cute cute!
And to make me love this even more, the cookies are the PERFECT size to fit in the bags that I use for my pretztels.
See – perfect fit!
Tomorrow I’ll finish packaging and share what I’m doing for that. 🙂
Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga says
And I have been debating about a whoopie pie pan. JUST posted about this two days ago. I think you have sold me 🙂
elisa says
baking powder or no?
Christi says
Elisa, yes, as noted I added 1/2 tsp of baking powder to the recipe.
Lee says
Your “link within” brought me to this recipe. I love that you thought of making cookies with the whoopie pie pan. I had no idea there was a whoopie pie pan!! I’m so excited-I’ll be looking for one of this soon!
Sweet Tooth says
they look so pretty!it seems like a shame to eat them, but then again I bet they taste so good!
Trevor Hipp says
Hi There!
Can you please tell me where you found the cut little bags to put your cookies in?
Thanks so so much!
Regards,
Trevor
Christi says
Trevor – I get most of my bags from a local baking supply company, but they have a website where you can order from: http://www.cakearts.com/temkin-clear-2-10-100-cellophane-bag.html I’ve also purchased Wilton bags at Michaels or Hobby Lobby. 🙂
@pril says
Great post! I had never heard of a Whoopie Pie Pan until now. What is the diameter of the cavities?
TidyMom says
Don’t you just love using your whoopie pie pan this way!! Now I’m dying to try them with chocolate chip cookie dough!
Thanks for linking up!!
Irina @ Sunshine's kitchen says
Hi!
I really like these cookies and I was wondering if I could make them 2-3 days in advance? Would it be okey and how should I store them?
I don’t have whoopie pie pan and I would make them in a muffin pan, do you think it would be appropriate?
Best wishes,
Irina
Christi says
Irina, I think you’d be okay a few days in advance. I have had great luck freezing cookies, so that may be an option. When I do that, I let them cool completely, than store them double bagged in Ziplock freezer bags. If I’m making large cookies, I’ll even wrap them in plastic wrap before putting them into the freezer. I think a muffin pan would work, but you could also do them on a regular cookie sheet. If you haven’t, check out my recipe for the Levain Bakery style chocolate chip cookies. They are crazy moist. I’ve had some in a ziplock bag on the countertop for almost five days and they are still super moist, so they might be a good bake ahead option. Good luck!
Christi says
Jess, great minds think alike! I love the muffin top pan, but those are some monster cookies. These still make generous cookies, but a bit more realistic in size. Can’t wait to hear what you bake up!
Jackie says
Hi
I love the whoppie pans too, but for me it will take a while for me to make 4 dozen cookies in that pan, because you have to wait for the pan to cool to put the next batch in, I think I will just stick to my cookie sheets where they can go in one right after the other. Where did you purchase the pretzel bags.
Christi says
Jackie, it certainly did take a bit of extra time. Because the cookies were a bit bigger it made fewer than my recipe normally does. I did pick up a second pan so that next time I can get through them a bit quicker. With a ten month old crawling around, I have to move fast! 🙂