Mini Whoopie Pies!

"....no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing."-Julia Child, My Life in France
Hello!
Hope your week is going good! I'm in the middle of a 62 hour stretch! But, on top of everything work wise going on, I've had the time to create some delicious whoopie pies with my awesome cousin late last week (:

Here's what they came out to look like:

I made all sorts of sizes, depending on how much cake mix you place into the pans, is completely up to you.  I would suggest filling them a little less than halfway.  Play around with it a little bit.

Here's what you need to create these bad boys:
Cake Mix (home made, or boxed)
Frosting (Home made or store bought)
Optional:
Filling---You can use just frosting to keep them together or filling with frosting on top
I used strawberries and made a sauce out of them with sugar and corn starch.
Mini Whoopie Pie Pan
Whoopie Pie Shooters (Optional)

A whole cake mix box creates about 4 pans--so it creates a lot of pies.  Of course, if you make huge pies you will only get about 3 pans.  Another option would be make two pans and the rest cupcakes, or whatever you desire!

This is a mini whoopie pie pan! The directions are on the pan itself, but you bake it at 350 for about 9 minutes!

You can get your own pan here: http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=40498188  (or anywhere cake supplies and such are offered).

How to make them: 

Create the cake mix, and fill the pan as you wish.  Bake them according to pan directions (350 degrees, for 9 minutes), or until the cake pushes back up when you press on them.  Make sure they are cooled down before frosting and decorating them.  Decorating: Place frosting/filling on the flat side and place two of them together.  If your stacking them like the shooters below: create the whoopie pies by placing two together and then stacking them into the shooters.

How to make the filling:  Half of a container of strawberries, or 1 1/2 of frozen strawberries.  You wanna thaw out the strawberries a little bit if you are using frozen ones.  Chop up the strawberries into at least 1/2 inch chunks.  Place 1/2 cup of sugar into a saucepan along with the strawberries.  Use 2 tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the sauce.  The strawberries cook in their own sauce, while on low-medium.  Mix the whole time you are creating the sauce so you don't scorch the strawberries.  The sugar and the cornstarch will thicken and sweeten the strawberries into a wonderful sauce. Once it is at a thick consistency, take the saucepan off the heat.  Make sure that is cooled completely before using as a filling for your pies.

FINALLY: GET CREATIVE (:  I used lemon frosting, white cake mix, and strawberry sauce as my filling.  It was delish! Another idea would be to use chocolate cake, strawberry filling, and a buttercream frosting! (: NUM! 

After creating the pies, I placed the smaller appropriately sized ones into these shooters; I stuffed about three, sometimes four into them. These things are pretty cool because you eat them like a push pop! These are available here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/114586054/25-push-up-container-with-lids-cake

YUM! so delicious!