Friday, December 9, 2011

making whoopie (s)





* 4 cups plain flour
* 1 tspn baking soda
* 1 tspn baking powder
* 1 tspn salt (adjust that if you want!)
* 1 tblspn cream of tartar
* 1 cup cocoa powder
* 1 cup of soft butter
* 2 cups of sugar
* 2 tspns vanilla essence (less if you use extract)
* 2 eggs
* 1 1/3 cups soured milk

* sift the dry goods together




The Pies should be soft, not crispy.


* try not to eat them all yourself.


  1. Saw these 'new' sensations in the Womens Weekly - your version looks a bit less contrived. But how big is BIG?? And does the Amish cookbook say why they're called 'whoopies'??

    Have a great weekend!

  2. It's cos when they kids see them, they say WHOOPIE!!!

    BIG is maybe the size of a Nanas' snack fruit pie? only MUCH fatter.

  3. I've seen my American friends going nuts for these on FB - eating themselves sick.

    I checked out the whoopie pies website. OMG. You could go nuts.

    That's a major sugar rush, right there. Look great though!

  4. Holy crap I think I'm in love. Ever since I made my daughter's birthday cake and it actually turned out, I've thought of myself as Donna Hay. Of course I'm going to have to try to make these, and I'll probably take a photo of them and show you (for your approval of course). Thanks for enlightening me with this recipe!

  5. You are SO ahead of your time! I'm not sure I'm quite over the disaster that was the cake pop phenomenon at my place (lasted 5 months, sank without trace). But these look very tempting... x

  6. I am impressed with how cool you are. Not only are you 20 years ahead of the times, you own an Amish cookbook! What else is in there? x

  7. Amish recipes are so yummy but absolutely full of sugar and fat. Doesn't matter to them as much cos they work so hard physically, I guess.

  8. My Mum bought me a "whoopie" cookbook about 2 yrs ago and I love 'em....especially the red velvet ones

  9. My Mum bought me a "whoopie" cookbook about 2 yrs ago...I 'specially like the red velvet ones....mmmmm

