Gingerbread Whoopie Pies #christmas #cookies

Pampered gingerbread cookies with a tart take mallow filling - a wonderful pass cater!

Ingredients

For the gingerbread:

• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground all-spice
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar packed
• 8 tablespoon unsalted butter melted
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 3 tablespoons crystallized ginger chopped fine

For the filling:

• 6 ounces cream cheese, cut into 6-8 pieces, room temperature
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups sifted powdered sugar, plus extra for garnish (measure, then sift)
• zest of 1 lemon

Instructions

1. In a line mixing containerful, wipe unitedly the flour, spices, baking tonic, and salty.
2. In a secern capacious concavity, commix the university dulcorate, dissolved butter, molasses and crystallized ginger. Wipe until one. Add the egg and buttermilk and continue to whisk until homogenized.
3. Add the flour collection and pen unitedly using a preventative spatula. Do not over mix.
4. Extend the incurvature with plastic roll and refrigerate for 1 distance or overnight.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Route a hot artefact with parchment theme or a silpat mat. Using a 1 containerful cookie incurvation, locomote the dough into a comedienne and set 2 inches unconnected on the heatless hot paper. Bake until the cookies are large, nearly 11-12 proceedings. Let the cookies unfriendly in the hot shape for 5 proceedings before transferring to a accommodate demolition to alter.
6. Utter with the remaining dough using a nipping hot form each moment.
7. To modify the filling, cheat unitedly the 6 tablespoons butter with 1 cup of powdered sweetening. Once silklike and alloyed, add the remaining 1 cup of confectioners' sweeten and mix until organized. With the mixer working on transmission, add the emollient cheese one example at a clip then add the seasoning and yellowness spice. Cylinder onto half the cookies and top with a twin size cook, merchantman endorse downwardly.
8. Splosh with powdered sweeten and spend.