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Jack-O-Lantern Whoopie Pies

Source of Recipe

KSL
ack-O-Lantern Whoopie Pies
Ingredients:

* Yellow (or white) cake mix
* ½ cup vegetable oil
* 2 eggs
* Orange food coloring
* Yellow food coloring
* White frosting
* Round frosting tips, straws, knives (Wilton has Jack-o-lantern face cutter kit)
* Orange sugar (available at craft stores)
* Green licorice

Method:

In a small bowl, mix together the oil, eggs, and orange food coloring. Preheat oven to 350°. In a medium bowl, add the oil mixture to the cake mix. Mix together until well blended. Using a small cookie scoop, scoop dough onto a cookie sheet (12 at a time) and bake at 350° for 7-9 minutes. If you don't have a cookie scoop, roll into small balls. Do not over bake! They should be soft even when cooled. Yields approximately 26 halves.

Allow to cool for a few minutes. If they are still mounded, I use the bottom of a glass measuring cup to flatten them slightly. Cool completely. Using small shapes, cut faces into half of the cookies. I used round frosting tips and straws for the circles. I used a knife to cut triangles and straight edges.

Mix yellow food coloring into the frosting. Generously frost the wrong side of each of the cookies that doesn't have a face. Place a Jack-o-lantern face on each one and press the two sides together until the frosting starts showing through the openings. Roll the edges of the cookie in orange sugar so that yellow frosting is no longer showing on the sides. Cut a pumpkin stem out of green licorice and carefully insert into the top of the jack-o-lantern.