Several months ago I was telling my friend Molly about the Whoopie Festival my mom had discovered in Pennsylvania. I was hoping to go and for some reason thought Molly cared. (I'm sure Molly would tell you that she cared a lot, but really....whoopie pies?) It was right about then that I discovered a most awful secret.
Molly didn't know what a whoopie pie was. She actually confused it with a Moon pie. Oh horror!
I knew right then that I would just have to correct this terrible injustice! (How could her parents have done this to her, I wondered?)
So last week I bought the stuff to make whoopie pies. When the first batch of cakes came out of the oven, I knew something had gone terribly wrong. They were small and much more cookie-like than cake-like. Determined to finish, I sandwiched them with icing and passed them out. They were actually pretty good, but they weren't real whoopie pies. Turns out I had copied the recipe wrong 18 or 19 years ago when I made my recipe box for Missionettes.
Not willing to take my new creation over to Molly, I decided to try again, this time using a recipe from my Mennonite cookbook. So Saturday I started over. When the first buzzer went off and I opened the oven, I was so disappointed. Oh so very disappointed. My cakes had spread out into each other and filled the whole pan. They were pretty flat. It was so sad. I salvaged what I could and made the rest smaller, but the honest truth is that my whoopie pies failed a second time.
Here's a picture of what I managed to come up with:
The recipe was supposed to make 5 dozen pies. I couldn't even complete 2 dozen.Even though they weren't quite right, I took one to Molly anyway. I couldn't have her mixing up whoopie pies and moon pies any longer!
Wikipedia has a good description and a much better picture of whoopie pies if you find yourself wondering about the difference too. And just so you know, I won't get to go to the Whoopie Pie festival after all. We already have a commitment for that weekend. : (
3 comments:
From the hubby:
The whoopie pies in question were quite soft with a mild chocolate flavor and a light, delicious filling. Was that supposed to be what whoopie pies taste like? I don't know -- but they were really really good!
BTW -- I liked the first trial run as well!
Thanks Michael. : )
I heard about Whoopie Pies on Food Network. Where I am from the Moon Pie is very popular but I don't like them. Your Whoopie pies looked pretty delicious to me!
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