Summer Cooking Adventures

Summer is always a time my son and I try to bake and cook together.  He is great at baking, and we have a lot of fun. I am always on the hunt for 'new' stuff  to try, and on my recent trip to the South I was introduced to something called the 'Whoopie Pie'.

I had never even heard of it before I went to the South, and didn't taste one while I was there but one of my favorite authors posted the recipe she and her daughter made for 'Whoopie Pie' and we decided to try it! With some slight modifications. Below is a general description but the whole, precise recipe will be linked at the end. 

First we sifted together flour (1/2 whole wheat and 1/2 cake flour) Cocoa Powder, baking soda, and salt.

Next we made the batter out of  butter and shortening (we used butter crisco sticks and saved a step)  brown sugar splenda, egg and vanilla. We slowly folded the flour mixture in, with the medium speed on the mixer. (I have a tendency to add little teaspoons of water as I go along, because I don't like cookies to be too 'cakey'.)

The result:

After they bake for 10 minutes you get:

NEXT: the filling: Mix together marshmallow fluff, shortening (we used butter crisco again hence the yellowish tinge to our filling), confectioner's sugar and vanilla

NEXT my co-chef demonstrates the importance of tasting one's creations:

OKEY DOKE READY to FILL:

AND There you have it! Classic chocolate whoopie pies! The whole family loved them:

Click Here for Classic Whoopie Pie recipe