Dunkin' Whoopie Pie Donut Recipe

Dunkin's Whoopie Pie Donut is a glazed chocolate cake donut, cut in half and filled with whipped vanilla-flavoured icing. This copy bakes six chocolate cake donuts in a donut pan in about twelve minutes, dips them in a thin sugar glaze, splits them and fills them with a whipped filling of butter, powdered sugar and marshmallow creme.

What Dunkin's Whoopie Pie Donut is

Dunkin' listed it among its chocolate items on 27 January 2025 as the Whoopie Pie Specialty Donut, a glazed chocolate cake donut halved and filled with whipped vanilla-flavoured icing. It had been sold regionally before: Spoon University found it in the autumn of 2023 at select locations in Portland, Nashville, Buffalo and other cities.

The name comes from the whoopie pie, two rounds of chocolate cake with a creamy filling between them, which Maine made its official state treat in 2011.

This is a reconstruction from Dunkin's one-line description, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Dunkin'.

Recipe

Dunkin' Whoopie Pie Donut

A reconstruction of Dunkin's Whoopie Pie Donut — a baked chocolate cake donut with a sugar glaze, split and filled with a whipped vanilla marshmallow filling. Six donuts.

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Prep

25 min

Cook

12 min

Total

1 hr 7 min

Serves

6

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• For the donuts:
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• For the glaze:
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 4 teaspoons whole milk
• For the filling:
• 4 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup marshmallow creme
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350°F and grease a 6-cavity donut pan.
2. Whisk the flour, the granulated sugar, the cocoa, the baking soda and the salt in a bowl. Whisk the egg, the buttermilk, the oil and 1 teaspoon of vanilla in a second bowl, pour them into the dry ingredients and stir just until no dry flour remains.
3. Spoon or pipe the batter into the pan, filling each cavity about three quarters full. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the donuts spring back when pressed. Cool them in the pan for 5 minutes, turn them out onto a rack and let them cool completely.
4. Stir 3/4 cup of powdered sugar with the milk into a thin glaze. Dip the rounded side of each donut, let the excess drip off and leave the glaze to set for 15 minutes.
5. Beat the butter, the other 3/4 cup of powdered sugar, the marshmallow creme and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla for 3 minutes, until white and fluffy.
6. Cut each donut in half horizontally with a serrated knife. Pipe or spread the filling on the bottom halves and set the glazed halves on top.

Nutrition

Calories:

425

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Baked in a pan

A cake donut batter is too soft to shape by hand. A donut pan and the oven give the ring without a pot of oil. The crumb is softer than that of a fried donut and has no crust, and the glaze makes up for it with a thin shell.

• Fill the cavities three quarters full. Fuller, and the batter closes the hole.
• Stop stirring when the flour is gone. Overmixed batter bakes up tough.
• Cool completely before glazing and cutting. A warm donut soaks up the glaze and tears under the knife.

A donut that is fried, from a yeast dough, is the brownie batter donut.

The filling of a whoopie pie

Dunkin' calls its filling a whipped vanilla-flavoured icing and gives no recipe. The filling of a classic whoopie pie is, in the words of the Wikipedia article above, somewhat like a marshmallow creme-based buttercream, and that is what the card makes. Three minutes of beating turn it white and light enough to pipe.

Without marshmallow creme, beat the butter with 1 1/4 cups of powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon of milk. That filling is denser and sweeter.

Splitting a ring

A serrated knife and a sawing motion keep the ring whole. Keep the filling a little away from the edge, because the top half presses it outward.

A day ahead

Unfilled, the donuts keep for a day in a closed container. Filled, they are eaten the same day: in the refrigerator the filling hardens and the cake dries out.

A donut of a different kind, chewy and made with rice flour, is the mochi donut. To drink with either there is the Dunkin' brown sugar shaken espresso.