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Author
Spicewalla Team | 2021-05-25
Description
You know the dish that one family member makes that tastes like every good thing that's ever happened in your childhood? This is that dish.
Rich, chocolatey cookie-shaped cakes sandwiching a fluffy vanilla cream. Think Oreo Cakesters circa 2007. Except this recipe is more like circa 1940s—a family recipe created by my great-grandmother Marie ft. a few minor alterations over the years from her son Steve, aka my grandfather, aka Papa. I didn't get the chance to know Marie very well, but according to Papa she was an 👏 incredible 👏 baker y'all and made the most perfect Monkey Bread he's ever had. The apple truly does not fall far from the tree because Papa is an A+ baker. Like, winner of the Great British Bake Off level of baking. This whoopie pie recipe is one of his most highly requested in our family…mostly by me.
Marie made whoopie pies often when Papa was growing up in Churchtown, Pennsylvania—an unincorporated community in Lancaster County known as the hub of Amish country. Whoopie Pies (aka Gobs) are an Amish original...well, depending on who you ask (and if you're asking anyone in my family, it is). It's said that this pillowy treat was created in the early 1920s as a way to use up leftover cake batter and frosting. Amish wives/moms would add these cookie-sized cake sandwiches to their husband's and children's lunch boxes—and when they would open them, they were said to yell, “whoopie!” Giving the sweet treat its name. If you're not from Pennsylvania, you may have heard a different origin story from Maine—who also claims the dessert as their own.
The original recipe uses a vanilla cream but I sprinkled in some Spicewalla Chai Masala. Papa approved—fingers crossed Marie would, too. Hope these little sweet-treat sandwiches bring you as much joy as they've brought me. -Nicole ♥️
Yield: 15-20 whoopie pies
Time: approx. 45 minutes
