Chocolate Strawberry Cream Pies
Looking for a fruity spring dessert that everyone will love? Check out this recipe for Chocolate Strawberry Cream Pies. You can call them cream pies, whoopee pies, cream sandwiches, whatever you like, but it really doesn't matter because they will be gone in no time.
Everyone will love the creamy icing filling. If you love oatmeal cream pies, then this will be a favorite recipe.
I love the flavor in this cream pie recipe. The chocolate strawberry combo cannot be beat! You'll see that in my chocolate covered strawberry lush recipe, too!
As always, you can make this recipe gluten and dairy free by swapping out ingredients that are both gluten and dairy free. Just make sure to read the labels!
Chocolate Strawberry Cream Pies
Chocolate strawberry cream pies (aka whoopie pies) are a delicious treat that combines rich chocolate with strawberry buttercream.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 ¼ cups dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk
- 1 egg
- Strawberry Buttercream:
- ½ cup butter
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 3 ¼ cups powdered sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons strawberry extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- Pink Food Dye (optional)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit. Prepare a sheet of parchment paper with a 9x11 inch pan.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream the brown sugar, salt and butter together for a few minutes. Add egg, vanilla and buttermilk to the butter mixture and mix together again.
3. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder and then whisk together until combined.
4. Use a large ice cream scoop to place the finished batter onto the parchment paper.
5. Bake in the oven for 15-17 minutes until risen and looking fluffy.
6. While they are baking make the strawberry buttercream.
7. Cream the butter and salt in a mixing bowl for a few minutes until the butter has slightly lightened. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and strawberry extract. Mix again with a hand mixer until combined.
8. Then add in the buttermilk and a drop of pink food dye if you want a pink frosting to show that it is a strawberry buttercream. Blend this together until a creamy frosting has formed.
9. Once the whoopie pies are out of the oven, let cool for 15 minutes.
10. Spread the strawberry buttercream onto each whoopie pie with a knife or use a piping bag. Place the other side of the pie on top of the frosting to create a sandwich.
11. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
If you want perfectly rounded cream pies, use a cookie cutter to cut off jagged edges when they come out of the oven.
