Since her trip was spur of the moment, I wanted to make something easy with what I had. On Saturday I decided to make use of the Devil's Food Cake Mix I bought a while ago. I wanted to make this lower in calories and healthier. Instead of the vegetable oil required, I used the same amount of unsweetened applesauce. Instead of 3 eggs, I used 4 egg whites. I also had a recipe from my Betty Crocker Cupcakes Book for Vanilla Butter Cream icing I've used previously and decided it would be perfect.
As I was mixing this, I saw the recipe on the box for Mini Whoopie Pies. All you had to do was drop it on the parchment paper and bake it for 7-9 mins. I thought that would interesting to try. I just used two cookie sheets covered in Parchment Paper. I used 2 TBSP for each I dropped. It reminded me of making cookies. While that baked, I started on the frosting.
I took two sides and put frosting in the middle. I was afraid I would run out of frosting (I only made frosting for 12 servings) that I just put a little in the middle. Of course I ate some. They were so good! I had two... oops
Of course, I still had extra batter from my experiment, so I baked 12 cupcakes! I greased the muffin pan and when they were done, I put them in cupcake liners. They were stickier then usual, but they tasted so much better than if I had used yucky vegetable oil!!!
I played around with the frosting (BTW, any butter cream icing is amazing). The frosting was for 12 servings, but I was able to spread it out. I playfully decorated half the cupcakes (the circles are interesting... accidentally spilled the sprinkles). For the other 6 cupcakes, I sliced them in half and made mini mini whoopie pies by putting icing in the middle.
Did I mention that with the cupcakes, I put a few chocolate chips in the middle? (I poured batter, sprinkled a few chips, then put more batter.
I went back in to fill the whoopie pies since I had the leftover butter cream. It kinda tore the pies because they were sticky, but didn't hurt the taste. I used blue sprinkles because of memorial day weekend, but it made them look a bit funny, like if I used blueberries. :). Unfortunately, threw away the recipe, but it can be found on the back if you go to a grocery store.
I'm happy to say my friends loved the whoopie pies I made! I brought them to dinner and we ate them after our yummy sushi dinner at Sushi Yoshi. We had such a great time that night. We even split this huge XL Margarita Tower. And randomly, the table beside us were on their third L Margarita Tower and got too drunk and gave us theirs. We had to big Margarita Towers and Mucho Margaritas. It was crazy. Great night!