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I haven't made it yet, but here's one from Cook's Country magazine:

Whoopie Pies

Serves 6

Don’t be tempted to bake all the cakes on one baking sheet; the batter needs room to spread in the oven. 

Cakes

2 cups all-purpose flour 

1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder 

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1/2 teaspoon table salt 

1 cup packed light brown sugar 

8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick), softened but still cool

1 large egg , room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 cup buttermilk 

Filling

12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool

1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar 

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

1/8 teaspoon table salt 

2 1/2 cups Marshmallow Fluff 

hi granna2 hope this helps when i make cookies or sweets i make my filling with a confectioners sugar little vanilla milk mix with gives me the cookie filling texter but made to my liking 1box confectioners sugar 1 tsp pure vanilla extract i cup milk 1tsp melted butter let me know how it works out.

Whoopie Pies from Cake Mix

1 (18.25 oz) Betty Crocker Supermoist Cake Mix, Devils Food (with pudding in the mix)

1 cup milk

5 Tbs all-purpose flour

1 stick (1/4 lb) butter

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup sifted confectioners sugar

1/4 tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla extract

To make cakes - Prepare devil's food cake mix according to directions on package, but use only 3/4 cup of water. Drop the batter onto greased cookie sheet forming 2-1/2 to 3 inch circles

by smoothing out batter with the back of a spoon. Makes about 20 circles.Bake about 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Allow to cool.

To make filling - Using a saucepan, stir in milk and flour, cook, stirring constantly,

over medium-low heat, until a thick paste is formed. Allow to cool.

In a bowl, cream butter and shortening. Mix in confectioners sugar, salt and

vanilla. Beat with mixer on medium speed until blended. 

Begin adding, a tablespoon at a time, while beating, the cooled milk/flour mixture to the

butter/sugar mixture. Beat until combined mixtures is light and fluffy.

Flip the cooked, cooled, cakes over and spoon a dollop of filling onto half of

the cakes. Place the other half of the cakes on top of filling to form Woopie pies.

Make about 10 Woopie Pies.

Antilope, I was just wondering last night how you could make them from a cake mix and if there was a recipe for it, thanks, now wonder how much pumpkin you should add and if you should eliminate anything? thanks, Granna2

Based on the recipe below from Recipezaar, 

For the Pumpkin Woopie Pies, I would substitute a 

spice cake mix for the chocolate cake mix 

and 1 (15 oz) can solid pack pumpkin.

Eliminate most of the milk and flour.

Since the spice cake mix doesn't contain pudding, a little milk might be needed.

Easy Pumpkin Spice Cookies (Cake Mix)

Ingredients

1 (18 1/4 ounce) box spice cake mix

1 (15 ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin (the small can)

1 cup chopped walnuts (optional) or chopped pecans (optional) or 1/2 cup raisins (optional)

1 cup cream cheese frosting (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. Spray cookie sheets lightly with vegetable spray (Pam).

3. In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and pumpkin 

with a fork or mixer until well blended; stir in nuts or raisins, if desired.

4. Drop by large rounded spoonfuls onto the cookie sheet; 

they don't flatten out much so however you place them on the 

sheet is pretty much how they'll look after baking.

5. Bake for 8 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of your cookies.

6. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for up to 5 minutes before 

removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

7. Frost, if desired.

8. How many cookies you get depends on how large you make them of course - 

just increase your baking time if making larger cookies 

(it's truly difficult to burn these, but they will get crispier & less moist); 

Mine, made with a medium size cookie scoop, take 13-15 minutes to bake and 

yield about 3 dozen.

I would like to add this sites formatting needs a lot of improvement. It either posts too small by default or with too many lines between text when pasting. 

When you try to edit the post and fix it, more than half the time you get an error message. 

Antilope:

I would like to add this sites formatting needs a lot of improvement. It either posts too small by default or with too many lines between text when pasting. 

When you try to edit the post and fix it, more than half the time you get an error message. 

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