Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies: pillowy soft carrot cake cookies, with all the traditional carrot cake flavors you love, are filled with a sweet cream cheese frosting!
If you have never had a whoopie pie, you are sorely missing out!
A whoopie pie has two super soft round cookies, that are more cake in texture, are sandwiched together with a sweet frosting.
These Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies are no exception to that rule. The cookie itself is extra soft and pillowy.
They are loaded with all your favorite flavors and seasonings that are in traditional Carrot Cake.
Then we fill them with a gorgeous sweet cream cheese frosting and sandwich them together. They are heaven!
Whoopie Pie History
The whoopie pie is a New England classic with it’s roots with the Pennsylvania Amish people.
It can also go by other names around the United States, such as a Moon Pie, GOB, Devil Dog, and Twins.
When Jorge and I traveled to Maine this past year, we also discovered that it is the official state treat of Maine!
They had whoopie pie bakeries almost every city we went to. We tried so many, but the Carrot Cake Whoopie Pie was my favorite.
Carrot Cake Whoopie Pie Ingredients
Did you immediately check the photo for raisins? Well, you won’t find any up there, but you can add them if you like!!
I don’t mind golden raisins in a true whoopie cake, but I didn’t like biting into them in the whoopie pies.
So I skipped them, but if you want to, you can add a 1/3 cup of golden raisins if you are a big raisin fan.
However, I did load our Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies with pecans, shredded coconut, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and of course shredded carrots!
Cream Cheese Filling
I left these Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies very traditional in flavor with a standard cream cheese filling.
Some good quality unsalted butter, cream cheese, vanilla, powdered sugar and a pinch of salt is all you really need.
However, I am going to let you in on a little secret, Cinnamon.
Adding a teaspoon of cinnamon to the cream cheese filling will really spice them up.
It’s a great addition if you are making these around the Fall time of the year and makes them a little warmer in flavor.
If you are a whoopie pie fan, make sure and check out some of my other Whoopie Pie recipes: Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple Cream Cheese Filling and Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Filling.
Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups finely grated carrots
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup chopped walnuts, or pecans
- 1 batch cream cheese frosting
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- In a large stand mixer, combine butter and both sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla extract, beating until well combined.
- Add flour mixture to mixing bowl, and beat on low until just combined. Fold in carrots, coconut and walnuts, by hand.
- Transfer batter to a frosting bag fitted with a round tip. Squeeze out rounded portions of batter, about two inches in diameter, onto one of the prepared baking sheets. Leave about two inches in between whoopie pies for spreading.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes, or until tops feel set when you tap them lightly with your finger. Edges will be lightly browned.
- Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes on baking sheets before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To assemble the whoopie pies, spread the cream cheese filling onto the bottom of a cookie, and top it with another cookie, forming a sandwich. Serve fresh or refrigerate any leftovers and let them rest for 20 minutes at room temperature before serving.
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These have to happen for Spring! I love the carrot cake flavors!
I love these for Spring! I have to make them for my family!
I am mouthwatering! These whoopie pies look heavenly!
I would LOVE one of these right now!! They look SO good!!
So am I missing something? Looking at a picture of the ingredients doesn’t help with the amounts! Is there a printed recipe?
Hi Patricia! The link to the full recipe is at the bottom of the post, I created this recipe for Dixie Crystals and so the full recipe is on their site. However, I like to share it here too, so y’all also get all the good recipes I make for them! 😉 Thanks!
Now this is such a fun recipe!! I can’t wait to taste this delicious dessert!
These look so delicious! My kids will be excited to get these treats in their lunch! I may have to try them with raisins, too!
These look like perfect little bites of heaven! I’ll have to give these a try instead of making carrot cake; my daughters will love these!