Zucchini Bread Whoopie Pies

Source: Iowa Girl Eats

Ingredients

½ stick butter, room temp.

½ cup unsweetened applesauce

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 egg

½ tsp vanilla

1 cup finely grated zucchini

1 cup old fashioned oats

1 cup flour

1 ¼ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

Icing

2 TBS butter, room temp

4 oz cream cheese, room temp

½ cup powdered sugar

½ tsp vanilla

Directions

1.     Combine butter, applesauce and sugars and mix for 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix.

2.     Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt and sift together.

3.     Add the dry mix to the wet mix in batches until all is mixed together.

4.     Add zucchini and mix.

5.     Add oats and mix.

6.     Preheat to 350 degrees.

7.     Line baking sheet with parchment paper and drop 1 TBS size balls on the sheet.

8.     Bake for 10 minutes.

9.     Frosting: Combine all ingredients and mix until light and fluffy.

10.   Let cookies cool on a cooling rack. Once cooled, spread or pipe icing between two cookies.

These were interesting and the more I ate the more I liked them. I definitely recommend frosting them, they can be a little dry if you don’t because the texture is mix between cookie and bread. Besides the frosting they are definitely healthier than your average cookie. Another idea I keep having is to put raisins in them! My sous chef dislikes raisins but maybe next time I will put them in half of the batch.