Gluten Free Whoopie Pies
- Yield: 6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup black beans
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tablespoons coconut oil or butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup raw honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- pinch of salt
- Chocolate chips (optional)
For filling:
- 2 cups fresh mascarpon, whipped cream, or coconut cream (coconut butter)
- 3 tablespoons honey (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Process beans in food processor until creamy.
- Add cocoa powder, egg, oil, vanilla, honey and salt and process until blended.
- Mix in chocolate chips if using.
- You will need 6 ramekin cups. If you don’t have ramekins you can make mini cookies instead.
- Grease ramekins or cookie sheet. Fill ramekins with 2-3 tablespoons of batter.
- If your making cookies, scoop 1-2 tablespoons of batter per cookie. This will make 12 cookies.
- Bake for 20-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let cool for 30 minutes.
- Remove cakes from ramekins. Slice in half and fill with cream filling (below). You may wait to fill these before serving.
- For filling: Mix ingredients until combined. You may also use your favorite ice cream in place of cream filling!
- Fill each cake with 2-3 tablespoons of filling. Serve or freeze for an hour for a yummy ice cream sandwich!
I thought legumes were not Paleo?? I’m confused!
Do you use canned black beans? How do you buy them?
and do you strain the beans? I made this for the first time and the cake didn’t cook fully, more like a chocolate pudding. Recipe not fail-safe yet. What do you advice?
I have made these twice now, subbing organic evaporated cane juice for the honey, and both times they have been awesome! I use a slightly different recipe for the filling, but my kids and all of their classmates (they took them as birthday treats in kindergarten and 2nd grade classrooms) and everyone raved about them! Such a fantastic allergy friendly recipe. THANK YOU!
I just made these..and there is WAAAY too much baking soda in it!! they looked great but tasted disgusting!! what a waste of ingredients…
looks yum, but what is black bean?
hi, I’m wondering the same about the baking soda? should it be powder? I put 2 T or batter each on a cookie sheet , baked for 20 minutes and the seemed to make a nice fluffy cookie so maybe the baking soda works out fine. I only ask because my hubby questioned the powder.. he’s a baker by trade. Just made these for dinner, my toddler and I loved em. I only put in a small handfull of chocochips but I would probably add a little more next time to satisfy my tastes. I didn’t fill them but I did dip them in a little bit of pureed coconut meat w/ a splash of vanilla.
just wondering if it's supposed to be baking powder instead of soda??? 🙂
Your round abouts look and sound absolutely delish! What a fantastic recipe – I love that it has black beans in it.
Delicious! Another great recipe Coconut Mama!
Oh yum! Another black bean recipe to try out! They look very yummy!