If you like the combination of banana and peanut butter, you will absolutely love these! You have a banana cake, and peanut butter and cream cheese filling and a drizzle of a chocolate glaze on these. I can't remember where I found these little babies, so if it is you, thanks for a great recipe. But, I am so glad that I did try them! So, if for some reason, you are over run with ripe bananas, instead of making banana bread, try these! I know that you will love them!Banana-Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup mashed banana
1/2 cup plain fat free yogurt (I used vanilla flavored)
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together banana and yogurt. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine butter and both sugars completely, ten add egg and beat until just combined. Add vanilla.
Alternately mix flour and banana mixture into creamed butter until just combined, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Scoop mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4 inch tip. (I used my cookie scoop.)
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and pipe batter into 1 1/4 inch rounds. Bake in oven just until the edges are slightly golden brown--you want the resulting cake to be soft and moist, not crispy. About 10-12 minutes. Transfer parchment to cooling rack and cool completely.
For the filling:
16 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
In a medium bowl, use and electric mixer to beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add sugar, vanilla and peanut butter and mix until combined. Spoon mixture into a pastry bag with the end cut off.
Pipe filling onto the flat side of half of the cakes and then top with the other half of the cakes. Drizzle with chocolate glaze.
Chocolate glaze:
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp corn syrup
Melt all ingredients in double boiler, or a glass bowl over a pot of simmering water. Mix until smooth. Do not over heat, or it will become grainy. Drizzle over whoopie pies.
These would be perfect for an afternoon tea with the girls!
15 comments:
What a great cookie!! I love seeing all of the different versions of whoopie pies!
Oh yeah! Pass a few this way, please!!
Mmmmm... Triple the fun! Doubled banana-peanut butter cookies PLUS, a drizzle of chocolate! The best of all worlds!
Like I say: "What could be bad!?" LOL LOL LOL
These look delicious! I love peanut butter and banana, and it's even better when you add chocolate in the mix!
awesome! i would love one right now!!! :)
Your cookies are making me drool. I wouldn't be upset if you sent some this way ;-)
That sounds like it has all the necessary components to me! :)
Peanut butter and bananas are a winning combination. Sounds great!
What a great new banana recipe! These cookies look terrific!
Wow! These look awesome. Its been awhile since I've made whoopie pies. Now I want to try to make these!
Just my kinda thing. Drizzle it with just a tad of caramel and I'm in heaven!!!!
I do like peanut butter and bananas.. and I'm not even pregnant. (I'm a guy).
Abby - Help! question: how much butter?
"In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine butter and both sugars completely, ten add egg and beat until just combined.
Pat-I have corrected the ingredients. sorry!! :)
I made these this week. So glad to have a recipe to use up my remaining yogurt and bananas. My son devoured so many of them! I blogged about them today. Thanks for the recipe!
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