They look great! I was just thinking about the pumpkin whoopie pies the other day... I can feel a batch coming on too. Thanks for the inspiration

Alexa

Wow those look terrific!!!

Alexa I still can't get canned pumpkin at my grocery store. Can you?

I haven't looked recently.... why would canned pumpkin not be available?

Alexa, it tends to be a seasonal product, usually only available around the holidays. I've looked for it off-season on occasion and have difficulty locating it but can usually scrounge up a can or two from somewhere! :)

Tracey, those look wonderful!!

Lori

Apparently the pumpkin crops were destroyed by all the rain in Nov 2009 and our stores havent had any canned pumpkin since then.

Thanks Tracey! Love the pumpkin ones... I'll have try these too. You know I LOVE chocolate!

David

Shaun, there's a pumpkin shortage here too, I didn't realize it until a few months ago when I tried to buy canned pumpkin and it was nowhere to be found. Sure enough, checking around resulted in my finding that there was a shortage, the Midwest lost most of the pumpkin crop (and a lot of other crops) due to the flooding last fall. However, harvest of this year's crop should start any time and pumpkin will be back on the shelves, hopefully.

My pumpkins did OK, last year, I've been wishing I'd have cnaned some, I sure will this year. I did find out, however, that my overflow of butternut squash takes the place of pumpkin pretty well. It's a bit milder, but still good in pie and bread, and probably, in whoopie pies. Now, winter squash didn't do all that well either, but if you can find that instead...

Annie

Annie, it's good to know we'll soon be able to buy canned pumpkin again!

Shaun, until then you could just make the chocolate ones, those look yummy!

Annie

So interesting about the pumpkin shortage. I meant to look for it when I was at Wally World yesterday but I forgot. My mission is usually to get out of that place as quickly as possible :) I have some butternut squash that I guess I will freeze just in case I need a sub for pumpkin around Thanksgiving time. And I would LOVE to make the pumpkin version of these! Is your recipe posted on the forum Alexa?

Tracey

Here you go! Hope you like them :-)

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies \

Cookie Cake Ingredients:
2 egg yolks
2c brown sugar
1c vegetable oil
2c cooked pumpkin (or 1-15 oz can)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp cinnamon
3c flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
Beat egg yolks, brown sugar and oil together, add pumpkin and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Mix in dry ingredients.
Drop heaping tablespoons of batter on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Cool on cookie rack. Mix filling ingredients and fill cookies like a sandwich. Makes about 18 pies.
Filling Ingredients:
1/2c butter
4 oz. marshmallow fluff
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 1/2c powdered sugar
1/2 tsp nutmeg

LOL I was craving pumpkin last fall when I heard talk of a shortage, so I bought some extra. Then I had my fill and now I think I still have 3 or 4 cans. Wish I could pass you a can. I haven't made the whoopie pies because I'm afraid I'll be the only one eating them.

Maybe DH can take some to work. :-D

Tracey, the pumpkin version is great. Thanks to Alexa for sharing a few years ago. I forgot to look today when I was at the store too. I did a google search and there is a lady selling cans on ebay. LOL Amazon had some organic available too.

David

Check for squash(the little boxes)in the freezer section...tastes enough like pumpkin for most recipes(to me, anyway).

Thanks for posting Alexa. I will definitely be trying these! Just out of curiosity, I checked for pumpkin at Kroger and Target and neither store had it in stock, even in organic. Still have to see if Walmart has it. Noinwi, I actually have some butter nut squash frozen already which I will be holding on to in case I can't get pumpkin at Thanksgiving!

Tracey