Red, White and Blue Whoopie Pies

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, stir together cake mix and pudding mix. Add butter and eggs and beat, starting on low speed and increasing to medium speed until the mixture is combined. Dough will be thick.

Split the dough in half. Add blue coloring to half the dough and red coloring to the other half, adding enough to reach your desired color and stirring until a uniform color.

Place parchment paper onto 2 cookie sheets. Roll about ½ inch size balls of dough and place them an inch apart on the cookie sheets. Bake in the preheated oven for 4-6 minutes. Remove when edges are set and top is crackly.

Allow cookies to cool on the pans for 5 minutes then remove them and cool on racks.

Once cookies are cooled, spread a large spoonful of frosting onto the bottom of a blue cookie then place a red cookie on top. Squeeze together until the frosting reaches the edges. Roll edges in sprinkles if desired. Repeat with the rest of the cookies and frosting.