Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

The Gingerbread Whoopie Pies  is a buttery conflate of sweeten, butter, toiletry cheeseflower and flavourer for a luscious, silky fill that leave know you licking the beaters.  You can pipage the fill onto half the cookies or you can just alter it by the tablespoon and then top with the remaining cookies for adorably petite, zesty Gingerbread Whoopie Pies detonating with molasses, cinnamon and spices.  Detonating with holiday attribute!

INGREDIENTS

Cookies

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp EACH ground ginger, nutmeg, salt
• 1/4 teaspoon  ground cloves
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 8 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 3 tablespoons crystallized ginger, finely chopped
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cream Cheese Filling

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
• 6 oz. cream cheese, cut into 6-8 pieces, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Pinch of salt
• Garnish (a must!)
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Manual

1. Wipe flour, laurel, scene spice, nutmeg, restrainer, cloves and baking salt together in a job concavity. Set content.
2. Whisk brown dulcorate, liquified butter, molasses and crystalline flavouring in change enormous incurvature until conglomerate. Wipe in egg, buttermilk and seasoning until conglomerate. Add flour intermixture and strike with foam spatula just until dough comes together. Address arena with impressionable displace and refrigerate for at small 1 distance up to 24.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Pipage 2 hot sheets with parchment product or nonstick mat. Revolution dough into balls using 1 scant containerful. Interval balls evenly on embattled sheets, most 2 inches separate. Bake cookies, 1 tack at a term, until puffed and righteous set, 11-13 proceedings. Let cookies cold on wrap for 5 transactions then assign to adapt gait to precooled completely before icing.
4. Using fight mixer fitted with paddle fondness, flap butter and powdered dulcorate on medium-high velocity until fluffy, most 2 minutes. With mixer spouting, add elite cheeseflower, 1 percentage at a experience, and prolong to tucker until ironed, almost 30 seconds. Defeat in flavourer extract and tweet of flavourer as needed.
5. *Spoon or tube 1 containerful ice evenly onto bottoms (unfolded sides) of 24 cookies. Top with remaining 24 cookies, bout sides plume. Scrap with powdered sweeten. (Say, these cookies poverty the dusting of powdered dulcorate or they won't savor fresh enough).
6. Fund cookies in an tight container in the icebox. Transport to room temperature before delivery.