Easy Oreo Cookie Whoopie Pies

These Oreo Whoopie Pies start easily with a cake mix and are filled with a luscious homemade cookies and cream filling. They’re a super fun, bite-sized dessert that is perfect for any occasion!

I have been making whoopie pies for a while now and they are always a hit! Who doesn’t love soft cookies stuffed with homemade cream cheese frosting with cookie crumbs?

If you’re looking for more whoopies pie recipes, be sure to check out Golden Oreo Whoopie Pies as well!

These cookies and cream whoopie pies begin with thick, cakey chocolate cookies made from a chocolate cake mix and other simple ingredients like butter, eggs, and sour cream. Then they get a homemade filling made of butter, cream cheese, and crushed Oreo cookie – does that sound irresistible or what?

I love making whoopie pies because they’re portable, handheld, bite sized, and perfect for kids and adults alike. Because we’re starting with a cake mix, homemade whoopie pies just got a whole lot easier!

What goes into this Recipe

• Chocolate Cake Mix: Using a boxed cake mix from the grocery store as the base makes these Oreo cookie whoopie pies quick and easy. The chocolate cake mix provides the rich chocolate flavor.
• Butter: The softened butter gets mixed right into the cookie dough, adding moisture and richness.
• Sour Cream: Using sour cream gives the cookies an amazing light and cakey texture, just like these Half Moon Black and White Cookies.
• Cream Cheese: Use full fat cream cheese combined with butter to make the delicious cream cheese filling.
• Oreo Cookies: Crushed Oreos get folded into the frosting, providing that iconic cookies and cream flavor and texture. If you love Oreos, you will also like this No Bake Oreo Cheesecake!

See recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

How to make Oreo Whoopie Pies

1. In a medium bowl, combine the chocolate cake mix, softened butter, eggs, and sour cream together using an electric hand mixer {or you can do this in the bowl of an electric mixer fit with a paddle attachment, or even do it by hand} until just combined!
2. Using a medium cookie scoop, portion out the cake batter cookie dough onto baking sheets with silicone liners or parchment paper. If you are using a small cookie scoop you should get 24 mounds of dough total {for a total of 12 sandwich cookies}. Refrigerate the scooped dough for 1-2 hours to firm up slightly.

3. Once chilled, roll the cookie dough in your hands and place dough mounds on a baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches apart.
4. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 9-11 minutes, until edges are set and tops are cracking slightly. Immediately transfer baked cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.

5. To make the frosting, beat the softened butter and cream cheese together in a medium bowl until smooth and creamy. Gradually add in the powdered sugar and mix until fully incorporated. Place 8 Oreo cookies in a ziploc bag and crush them into small pieces using a rolling pin or food processor. Fold the crushed Oreos into the frosting until evenly distributed. Transfer frosting to a pastry bag with a large tip cut off {or a ziploc bag with a corner snipped off}. Pipe a generous amount of the cookies and cream frosting onto the flat side of half of the whoopie pie cookies.
6. Top with the remaining cookies to create a cookie sandwich. Your homemade Oreo Whoopie Pies are ready to eat!

Expert Tips

• Refrigerate the dough after it has been scooped for 1-2 hours.  Refrigerating the dough helps chill the butter which means it will remain solid longer in the oven and that keeps the cookies from spreading.
• Shape refrigerated dough into tall mounds.  When you shape the dough into tall cookie dough mounds you are giving the dough farther to bake down.  That will keep it thicker than a cookie you just scoop and bake.
• The cookies are done when the edges are set, the tops look crackly and matte (not wet/shiny). You can also use a toothpick inserted in the center to check doneness {it should come out mostly clean}. They’ll still be soft in the middle.
• Bake cookies for a little longer than normal cake mix cookies.  Most of the time I have you almost under bake cookies slightly and then they cool completely on the warm baking sheet.  In this case, we want cakey cookies so baking them a little longer gives the cookie the texture you are looking for.
• Allow the cookies to cool on a cooling rack, not a baking sheet.  To compensate for baking them longer, we want to be sure that we don’t over bake them.  Removing them from the baking sheet and to a cooling rack straight from the oven will accomplish that.

Storage and Freezing

Store: Oreo chocolate sandwich cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days, or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Freeze: You can also freeze these chocolate whoopie pies for up to 3 months in a freezer bag or freezer-safe container.

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