Whoopie Pie Recipes Prove This Dessert Is The Best Of All Worlds

It's a cookie, cake and pie in one!

The whoopie pie is in a category all its own. Considered to be either a cake, cookie or pie (depending on who you ask), it encompasses the best parts of all of our favorite desserts. It has ample amounts of frosting just like cakes, and it's small and compact enough to eat with our hands -- like a cookie.

The origin of this great dessert is up for debate. Pennsylvania, Maine and New Hampshire are all claiming ownership to the whoopie pie. One story we quite like asserts that the name started with Amish farmers. When they found these desserts packed in their lunch by their wives who made them from leftover cake batter, they would shoot "Whoopie!" That's pretty much how we feel when we see them too.

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Chocolate Marshmallow Whoopie Pies
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Cinnamon Roll Whoopie Pie
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Pumpkin And Macadamia Whoopie Pie
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Chocolate Biscoff Whoopie Pies
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Banana Caramel Whoopie Pies
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Fruity Pebble Pink Velvet Whoopie Pies
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Chocolate Glazed Donut Whoopie Pie
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Mochaccino Whoopie Pies
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Strawberry Shortcake Whoopie Pies
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Funfetti Whoopie Pies With Frosting
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Samoa Whoopie Pies
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Spiced Cider Whoopie Pies
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Chocolate Cookie Dough Whoopie Pie
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Gingersnap Whoopie Pies
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Orange Creamsicle Whoopie Pies
Bakeaholic Mama
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Oatmeal Nutella Whoopie Pies
Passionate About Baking
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Mini Chocolate Whoopie Pies
Martha Stewart
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Carrot Cake Whoopie Pie
Just Putzing Around the Kitchen
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Whoopie Pies with Raspberries And Lemon-Scented Cream
Food52
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S'mores Whoopie Pie
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Meyer Lemon Whoopie Pies
Tutti Dolci
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies
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Thin Mint Whoopie Pies
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Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies With Maple Cream Cheese Filling
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Chocolate Cherry Whoopie Pies
Three Little Monkeys
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Funfetti Whoopie Pies
Chocolate Therapy
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
The Caffeinated Kitchen
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Matcha Chocolate Whoopie Pies
Brittany Powell
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Peppermint Whoopie Pies
Brown Eyed Baker
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