Name: Homemade Peeps Whoopie Pie Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 24 Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup butter flavored shortening; 2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 4 cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 Tablespoons cornstarch; 1 cup buttermilk; 2 teaspoons vanilla; Homemade marshmallow

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Do you love Peeps? Those marshmallow chicks and bunnies covered in pastel sugar? Then you're going to LOVE these homemade, Peeps inspired whoopie pie cookies. Homemade soft sugar cookies in Peeps colors, filled with homemade marshmallow, and rolled in colored sugar crystals. This is the cookie you've been waiting for, Peeps fans.

Five Peeps Whoopie pie sandwich cookies on a galvanized metal cake stand, surrounded by five Peeps candies in five different colors.

These Peeps whoopie pies are for you, my fellow Easter-Eve warriors. The ones staying up past midnight, filling and hiding Easter eggs. If you're getting up for early Easter services, all the more respect to you, my friends. These are the cookies that you need. That you deserve.

Peeps Whoopie pie sandwich cookie on a tiny metal cake stand, surrounded by Peeps and whoopie pies in assorted Peeps colors.

Homemade soft sugar cookies in classic Peeps colors, filled with homemade marshmallow, and rolled in colored sugar in classic Peeps colors. Even if you don't like Peeps, there's a good chance you'll love these.

Five Peeps Whoopie pie sandwich cookies staked on top of each other on a tiny metal cake stand, surrounded by five Peeps candies in five different colors.

Impressive balancing act, no? Ok, so I could only balance four of the whoopie pies without having the whole stack fall. This picture was actually held in place with my daughter's finger, which I edited out. But it looks cool, doesn't it? ;-)

three Peeps Whoopie pie sandwich cookies on a galvanized metal cake stand, with matching colored peeps balancing on top of each cookie.

Ready for all the details? The recipe with all the in-progress photos is next. But if you want to skip ahead to the video tutorial and the free, printable, one page version of the recipe, scroll to the bottom of the page.

Easter whoopie pies recipe made in the colors of peeps candies.

Peeps Whoopie Pies Recipe (Sugar Cookie Sandwiches with Homemade Marshmallow Filling)

Ingredients for soft sugar cookies, displayed on a wooden cutting board on a white marble background.

Peeps Whoopie Pie Ingredients:

1 cup butter flavored shortening
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 Tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Homemade marshmallow

Yellow and pink Peeps surrounding two bowls, one clear glass with uncolored sugar cookie dough, one white with pink sugar cookie dough and a spatula.

Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs and cream again. Combine all dry ingredients and all wet ingredients in separate bowls, and add to the creamed mixture, alternating, until completely combined.

Divide sugar cookie dough into as many portions as you're going to make different colors. I made five colors of Peeps inspired whoopie pies, so I divided my sugar cookie dough into fifths.

Color using gel food coloring. I used Americolor Electric Pink, Electric Yellow, Mint Green, Sky Blue, and a mix of Electric Purple and Electric Pink.

Baking sheet on white marble background, with bowl of pink sugar cookie dough, bowl of pink sugar crystals, cookie dough rolled into balls and rolled in the pink sugar, and four pink peeps.

When I'm making these cookies just as sugar cookies, I generally make them larger, as I did for the Sprinkles birthday party. But since these cookies were going to be doubled up in a sandwich cookie, I decided to use the smallest cookie scoop in this set.

Baking sheet with parchment paper covered in purple sugar cookie dough balls rolled in purple sugar, bowl of purple sugar and purple dough ball and spoon beside the baking sheet.

Roll the colored cookie dough in colored sugar and place on a baking sheet.

Baked pink sugar cookies on a cookie sheet on a white marble background, next to a pin Peeps candy.

Bake for 10-15 minutes (depending on the size of your scoop) at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sugar cookies made in the colors of peeps candies to make homemade Easter whoopie pies.

Look at all the pretty colors!

Sugar cookies colored the same color as Peeps candies, to make Easter whoopie pies.

I didn't get the colors exactly right, but it's close enough for me!

Person holding large piping bag full of homemade marshmallow for filling for whoopie pies.

For the filling, make a batch of my favorite homemade marshmallow recipe.

Fill a disposable pastry bag with the homemade marshmallow. The recipe I linked to makes a LOT of marshmallow, even more than fit in my 21" disposable piping bag! It was way more marshmallow than I needed for filling these cookies, quite frankly. Feel free to half the marshmallow recipe if you make them.

Easter whoopie pies being filled with homemade marshmallow filling for whoopie pies.

Pipe the homemade marshmallow on the bottom of one of the cookies you baked. Let it sit for a few minutes (or it will squish out the whoopie pie under the weight of the top cookie). Then top with another colored sugar cookie and roll the exposed edges of the marshmallow filling in colored sugar. Just like actual Peeps marshmallow candies!

Easter whoopie pies stacked on a metal stand and surrounded by Peeps candies.