I have always loved whoopie pies, I have a fond memory of baking them from scratch as a kid when I started getting into baking but it was a bit of a tedious process and as a kid I was annoyed when I had to use two cookies and only got 1 whoopie pie. Honestly, I haven’t baked them since. When I saw Betty Crocker’s Oreo line came out with a “cookie pie mix” which is essentially a whoopie pie, I got very excited. I love a quick baked good so let’s see how easy Betty makes whoopie pies.
You start by making the cookies which means combining butter, an egg, and the powdered mix. It came together nicely and smelled like the dark cocoa used in oreos to give them that rich chocolate flavor. The chocolate flavor was mild and honestly the dough tasted like slightly chocolatey butter which wasn’t great. The packaging says “made with real oreo pieces” but there were no chunks in the dough so perhaps they meant it was grinded up and put into the powdered mix because that’s the only other option here.
The dough was sticky at this point and the recipe states “if too sticky to roll, cover and refrigerate 20-25 minutes” so I went ahead and chilled for 20 minutes. I am impressed to see a chill step on a Betty Crocker mix, these are rare in the box mix world. Once the dough was chilled, I used a 1 tablespoon sized scoop to scoop out the dough into 12 portions as called for. Then I put the pan into the oven to bake.
The recipe says to bake for 15-17 minutes but of course, you can’t trust Betty Crocker mixes to be accurate. At 13 minutes the cookies were fully baked and came out of the oven. While they chilled, I made the filling mix. It doesn’t specifically say to use a mixer but it says to mix on low and then on medium. It was such a tiny amount of mix so instead of getting my mixer out, I used a whisk and whipped until it held a peak and it wasn’t very labor intensive so I think a whisk works great for this step instead of a mixer. The filling didn’t have much flavor, really just whipped fluffy milk, it definitely needs a vanilla extract but I held off adding this so we would get the most accurate box mix experience.
I paired the cookies up so the most similar in size were together and then flipped half of them over to start adding the filling. This mix only makes 6 finished whoopie pies which is sad. I wish they had doubled it or called for smaller cookies. The recipe calls for two tablespoons of filling per cookie, this sounded like a lot and visually I didn’t think it looked like I had 12 tablespoons of filling so I started with 1 tablespoon at a time but I actually ended up with a little bit more than enough so I distributed it equally between all the cookies. There was a lot of filling in each cookie which I appreciated since most mixes tend to be stingy and provide the bare minimum.
Biting into the cookie, all of that excess filling squished out of the back of the cookie so maybe less filling is better or really, a more stable thick filling would be better. This tasted like a brownie with whipped cream on it. Like a brownie sundae. I wasn’t really getting oreo from it or even whoopie pie since those are usually full of frosting. I expected an oreo cream in the middle so this whipped milk mixture was disappointing in comparison. This dessert was tasty but I expected oreo whoopie pie and got a brownie-like cookie with whipped cream, still a good dessert, just drastically different in comparison. This is a good mix worth trying but it didn’t hit the whoopie pie spot so I will have to keep searching for an easy whoopie pie mix.
This mixture totals 2015 calories. If divided into 6 cookie pies, each is 335 calories.
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