Anyone fancy a whoopie?

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Whoopie pies originated in New England in America and fable has it that the Amish women would bring plates of these out to their menfolk in the field who in turn would shout "whoopie".

 

They are taking New York by storm. The cupcake is dead, long live the whoopie.

 

The batter should be sticky, stiff and lumpy and the finished product a cross between a muffin and a biscuit.

WHOOPIE PIES

 

Makes 12 pies

125g softened butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

300ml buttermilk

2 cups plain flour, sifted

1/2 cup dutched cocoa (this is the very dark cocoa, like Blooker or Van Houten)

 

1 tsp bicarb soda

 

To make pies, preheat the oven to 200C. Cream the butter and add the sugar and beat until the mixture is very pale. Whisk the egg, vanilla and buttermilk together and add in alternate batches with the mixed sifted flour, cocoa and bicarb soda. Don't overmix.

 

Using a dessertspoon, dollop on to a lined baking tray. You are aiming for about 24. This will make 12 pies. Bake for 8 minutes and let them cool on the tray.

 

Remove and place them on a wire rack. When they are completely cold sandwich them with buttercream, or my preference, cream cheese frosting.

Cream cheese frosting:

250g Philadelphia light cream cheese

1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted

 

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Beat cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla until smooth to make frosting.

 

from..http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/food/7635964/recipe-chocolate-whoopie-pies/

[Jynxx 4]

I can easily imagine that YUMMY .

 

Hey, thanks for that. Gonna make one. Have a bag of organic cacao I have to use up.

[griller 9]

This is the kind of whoopie I know!

 

 

[rach 1]

Looks yummy!

[RobBright 35]

yuck - looks too sickly.

[mitchpee 10]

My dad is obsessed with these things....he loves them! My aunt bakes them for him from time to time and he about cries.