Sugar-Free Chocolate Oatmeal Whoopie Pies are soft oatmeal cookies stuffed with a creamy sugar-free filling in the center!
Whoopie pie and healthy eating lovers can now rejoice! These yummy little cookie pies are gluten free, sugar free and low in carbs as well!
I've actually never been a fan of the deviled dog texture of the whoopie pie cake part. Changing it a bit with rolled oats and sunflower seeds make the texture uber moist and soft. You could even freeze these and enjoy them like an ice cream cookie sandwich! My kiddies loved them!
You'll be surprised to know as well these don't take nearly as long as you think they would. The cookie part is mixed and baked for 10 minutes and the cream once whipped is spread on them in no time. Seriously these are a 30 minute or less dessert!
The first time I made them I used a whoopie pie pan and they were flat looking so the second time I decided to just make free form mounds. Now if you have a whoopie pie pan of course you can use it, but to me they just didn't look like a whoopie pie, more like a large Oreo cookie. These remind me more of something cookie monster from Sesame Street would eat and I just love that!
Brenda's Notes:
- You can use all rolled oats in place of the sunflower seeds I used.
- You can also sub the sunflower seeds for almond flour as well.
- The first time I made them with just whipped heavy cream and the texture was too light once the second cookie was o0n top, the cream just oozed out.
- Make sure you use certified gluten free rolled oats if you are gluten free.
- I used a combination of pure stevia extract and this liquid vanilla stevia in the cookie and the filling but you could change it to all powdered if you prefer. If you have stevia extract I would only 1 teaspoon in the cookie and ¼ teaspoon in the filling. If you have packets of stevia I would use 4 in the cookie and 2 in the filling which you could also taste and adjust as needed.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Oatmeal Whoopie Pies
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup raw unsalted sunflower seeds
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon pure stevia extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon liquid vanilla stevia
Filling
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon liquid vanilla stevia
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Add oats and sunflowers to a food processor and process until the texture of flour.
- Add the cocoa powder, baking powder, pure stevia extract and salt.
- Process until combined.
- Pour in the wet ingredients along with the vanilla extract and liquid stevia and process until smooth.
- On a parchment lined baking sheet or silpat, spoon 1 ½ tablespoon mounds of batter totaling 18 mounds. (may need two baking sheets to allow 2-3 inches of spacing between mounds)
- Bake 10-12 minutes and allow to cool completely before adding filling.
- Once cooled, mix the filling ingredients in a stand mixer until whipped and fluffy.
- Spread filling (about 1 tablespoon) onto one half and top with the second cookie.
- Keep refrigerated.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Laura Tabor
These are so delicious, I'm amazed that they contain no gluten or sugar and taste his good! My children loved helping make these and loved eating them even more ? Thank you for the wonderful recipe!
Lisa
So I just made these while I made the kid's lunches. I substituted almonds for the seeds. I also substituted the cream cheese filling with coconut milk cream. I'M A BELIEVER!!! These are amazing. Even my husband loved them and he's usually not willing to take more than one bite of "my food."
Update - I had another one this morning and THEY ARE EVEN BETTER TODAY! There is only the slightest stevia aftertaste, but not an annoyance at all!
Brenda
Woot woot!!! Thank you so much for sharing your substitutions!
Jordan
This is amazing...
Cant believe i can feel okay eating a whoopie pie!!
You are amazing with creating recipes..
cheryl
Is liquid vanilla stevia sweetened vanilla? Do I have to put more Swetener in to replace the vanilla stevia? Also want to make to them today ,can I just use more rolled oats to replace the sunflower seeds? I don't have any . Thank you, cheryl
Brenda
No it's stevia flavored with some natural vanilla. You can use all oat flour to replace the sunflower seeds, let me know how it turns out.
Teresa
Made these today my family could not believe they were made without sugar. Delicious will definitely make them again. Thanks!
Brenda
Woot woot!! Love to hear that!! Thanks for sharing!
Silvia
What can I substitute for vanilla stevia?
Brenda
Regular stevia, clear liquid is fine or chocolate flavored is good to.
Connie | URBAN BAKES
I love how you've added oatmeal and sunflower seeds to your whoopie pies. I've gotta try this!
Jen
Brenda, I want to start by saying there hasn't been one recipe I haven't liked of yours. But this one I didn't care for. But it might have been my mistake- do they sell unsalted sunflower seeds? LOL, because I used salted sunflower seeds, they were the only ones I saw in the store. And I did not like the cookie part at all. The frosting was delish- as you said though!
Brenda
Oh dear yes if you used salted sunflower that were probably greasy oh my! SO sorry! Raw sunflower seeds are in bulk at Whole Foods. You could also sub it with more oat flour. I should have specified that within the recipe, I just edited and fixed it now. I hope you'll try again as these were really good.
Jen
Haha, I knew I was doing something wrong. Your recipes are usually delicious! Thanks, I will try again!
Rebecca {foodie with family}
Aaaaaaaand YUM! I want 6!
Brenda
Ha!! Thank you for the compliment!
Lora @cakeduchess
Sugar-free and hard to resist! Love that you used oats...I need to bake with them more often:))
Brenda
Thanks Lora!
Bonnie
Oh! And I used black cocoa and chocolate stevia in place of the liquid vanilla stevia.
Bonnie
I made these tonight and they were AWESOME!! I used all oat flour since I can't have nuts or seeds. Passed the hubby test with flying colors! Woohoo!! And it was quick to make-- another big plus in my book.
Brenda
Thanks for sharing Bonnie!
Paula - bell'alimento
Since these are essentially healthy right? I can eat a dozen with no problems ; )
Brenda
Ha!! But sadly no 🙂
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes
I love whoopie pies and love this sugar free version even more!
Brenda
Thank you Ashley!
Christiane ~ Taking On Magazines
My daughter is a huge fan of whoopie pies. I know she'd go crazy over them, just as I do over the fact that they're sugar free.
Brenda
Thanks! Hope she likes them!
Angie
I can't believe how healthy you made whoopie pies! I'm in love!
Brenda
Thank you!
Lindsay
These look great. I probably will sub almond flour for the sunflower seeds. About how much "flour" did you end up with?
Brenda
I would just use 1/2 cup almond flour for the sunflower seeds. I measured the seeds as a 1/2 cup before grinding.
Nutmeg Nanny
These look delicious! I love whoopie pies and I love that creamy cream cheese frosting...yum!
Brenda
I could eat the frosting just with a spoon it's so good, too good!
Claire Gallam
I really can't believe these are sugar free!
Brenda
Thank Claire!
Jenn @ Deliciously Sprinkled
Brenda, these oatmeal whoopie pies look delicious and I love that they only take less than 30 minutes to make! Pinned 🙂
Brenda
Thanks for pinning Jenn!
foodwanderings
Wow sugar free and gluten free?! Lovely looking cookies. I also love your suggestion for oats substitute for the seeds. I love both but completely gaga over oats.
Brenda
I just wanted to lower the carbs a it so I didn't use all oats but I'm sure it will be as delicious if you use all oats.
Charlotte Moore
YUM!!!! I don't care for cream cheese so I may have to try something different for the filling.
Susan
Thank you SO much for a recipe without any coconut products!!! This journey to get my family into healthier eating has become quite the challenge. My daughter is allergic to coconut, and almost EVERY recipe uses some, or several, coconut products. Please make more recipes like this! I know she's not the only one! 🙂
Brenda
I'm so glad you like the recipe! My youngest actually has a tree nut allergy but can have coconut products but honestly doesn't like coconut at all so I try to avoid it when I can.