I’ve been in a whoopie pie mood lately. I’ve never made them before though. I chose mini banana whoopie pies for my first time (recipe here).
Now, I didn’t have any sour cream so I substituted with organic vanilla yogurt. I don’t know if this was my problem, but all of my “pies” turned out flat.
I couldn’t figure out why, so I came up with the idea of putting the batter into my cupcake pan. I piped the batter in the bottom of each of the cups in the pan, just enough batter to completely cover the bottom but of course in a thin layer and baked them this way. I found that I needed to bake them for less time in the cupcake pans.
But, they came out exactly how I wanted them to look!
They’re very nice, they’re moist and banana-y. I’m not a huge cream cheese fan, so that put me off slightly, but I do think that these whoopie pies are a nice treat. I’m interested now in making the original whoopie pies, pumpkin whoopie pies, and my own idea of cherry whoopie pies (chocolate pies with cherry filling).
I didn’t use all of my flat pies, just the one pictured above to show you what I meant by “flat pies”. I have leftover filling so I think I might try to use that as a filling in chocolate cupcakes later this week.
Hi!
I love your blog & I love whoopie pies! Great job. I use the recipe from Martha Stewart and then wrap them up individually in plastic wrap. I will be trying the Pumpkin Whoopie Pies soon. I tried the classic chocolate. I noticed you bought cupcake liners from me! WOW!Keep up the good work.
Happy Baking ~Michelle
Your whoopie pies are wonderful! Great idea. I have a cupcake bakery in Canada and I am thinking these would be terrific to introduce here. Always great to see what is out there! Thanks! Your blog is well done and very fun to visit.
Lyns
I’m back, funnily enough today I get the Martha News and it features pumpkin whoopie pies. I am going to try those too. And to think a few hours ago I never heard of them! Thanks again
All the whoopie pies turned out great. I also came across another recipe from the 30′s called drop cakes. Will be trying those soon.
Cupcake Swirl, thank you, and yes I did buy brown cupcake liners from you and I will probably do so again soon! :)
Lyns, thank you for the compliments! I’m so glad your whoopie pies turned out nice. I’ve never heard of drop cakes – good luck with those too! :)
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