(Yes, that picture does have a nuclear glow to it, lol.)I'm so glad I joined Cookie Carnival. If I could only bake one type of baked good for the rest of my life, it would be cookies. I love making them, and eating them. The cool think about Cookie Carnival is that it forces me to reach outside of my comfort zone and try new things.
Like sandwich cookies. This is my second sandwich cookie (the first being the surprisingly scrumptious Pink Grapefruit Sandwich Cookies). This time around it's chocolate cookies with pumpkin filling, also known as Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies.
I was curious about the origin of Whoopie Pies. According to Wikipedia: "A whoopie pie, sometimes alternatively called a gob, black-and-white, or bob is a baked good traditional to the Pennsylvania Dutch culture as well as New England, made of two small, chocolate, disk-shaped cakes with a sweet, creamy frosting sandwiched between them."
Interesting, since I thought the cookies tasted exactly like Devil's Food cake. (Ha, can't fool a cookie expert, trying to disguise a little round cake as a cookie!) I wasn't too keen on the filling. My tastebuds didn't think it went very well with the chocolate cookie. I think I would have liked them better with a fluffy white filling, as with the original.
Quite a few other Cookie Carnival bakers said their filling was runny. Mine wasn't runny, just kind of slimy-ish. I whipped the heck out of it with my Kitchenaid mixer, so maybe that's why it stayed together.
I enjoyed making them though. They're super cute and make for a nice take-along for the holidays feeding frenzies. I might try them again with a different filling. The cake/cookie was lip-smacking good.
If you'd like to give them a try, you can find the recipe at Martha Stewart's site.
19 comments:
Just love"Whoopie Pies" and these look so good!
Oh wow, I'm drooling. Yum!
+Jessie
a.k.a. The Hungry Mouse
Your little whoopie pies look perfect!
I just can't wrap my head around the pumpkin - chocolate combination. I would much rather have the white filling too!
these just scream "happy halloween," so i won't repeat it. :)
I had no idea whoopie pies originated in PA. It makes total sense. I was driving back from Lancaster once last summer and stopped at a roadside stand to take pictures. I was starved and the first thing I spotted was a whoopie pie. Yum! pumpkin flavor sounds awesome!
I have to make these; they look so good!
Great educational post! You did a great job! They look FAB!!!
Looks great! I bet they would be awesome with a different filling... or at least a more pronounced pumpkin flavor!
They looked great! I was happy with the way my filling turned out. I gave most of them away, though. I thought that the cookie would be great in an ice cream sandwich!
Oh I love your nuclear pic! Might have to find out how u did that! I have this recipe bookmarked from somewhere I think, so now I have to try it. Too many recipes and not enough time, LOL. Yours look fabulous.
awww.. urs look so good !! I want a Kitchenaid too ;-))) My filling turned out a bit too thin
I wasn't too impressed with the filling either. It wasn't quite pumpkin-y enough for something that was supposed to be a "pumpkin whoopie pie".
Nice job on the cookies. I like the pumpkin/chocolate combination, but I couldn't really taste the pumpkin in the filling. My filling was a bit oozy, but I put in the fridge for a bit and whipped it again and that seemed to work better.
Great cookies! I love the day-glo shot at the beginning.
My filling wasn't runny, just so mild as not to taste like much of anything. Cookies were good though.
Congrats on making whoopie(s)!
they DID taste like devil's food cake! yours look so perfect!
where's a chair. I want one. Those seriously are cute. Kind of reminds me of the pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips which was probably the redeeming quality of the muffins. Glad you had fun whipping that filling with your almighty KA. Aren't they great?
AmyRuth
Yours look perfect!
Your Whoopie Pies look wonderful. I have found that the secret to a fabulous Whoopie Pie is its filling. At Baker Babes Bakery we do a Pumpkin Whoopie Pie with a cream filling. This allows the taste buds to savor the full flavor of the pumpkin cake without it having to compete with the flavor of a pumpkin filling. I have found that when pumpkin filling is surrounded by a chocolate whoopie cake the pumpkin flavor seems to only serve as an afterthought. You can check out our pumpkin whoopie pies at our seasonal section of our website at www.baker-babes.com.
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