Making Whoopies: The Official Whoopie Pie Book

113 Pages·2010·7.4 MB·English

by  Nancy Griffin

Making Whoopies
The Official Whoopie Pie Book
By Nancy Griffin
Copyright © 2010 by Nancy Griffin
Front cover photograph by Mark Fleming.
Cover whoopie pie created by Amy Bouchard, Isamax Snacks Bakery.
ISBN: 978-0-89272-810-7
Library of Congress Control Number 2010920625
Printed in China
5 4 3
Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
For Matthew and Meara, who always make me
want to holler,
“Whoopie!”

ISAMAX SNACKS BAKERY
Recipe Index
Banana Whoopie Pies, 74–75
Basic directions for making whoopie pies, 20–21
Beatrice’s Chocolate Whoopie Pies, 26–27
Cake and Commerce’s Gluten-Free Whoopie Pies, 60–61
Classic Chocolate Whoopie Pies I, 22–23
Classic Chocolate Whoopie Pies II, 24–25
“Confidential Chat” Boston Whoopie Pies, 32
Davene’s Zucchini Whoopie Pies, 62–63
Diane’s Modified Boston Globe Whoopie Pies, 35
Eastwind Inn Whoopie Pies, The, 28–29
Grandma Jenny’s Maine Whoopie Pies, 30–31
King Arthur Flour’s Vanilla Berry Cream Whoopie Pies, 72–73
Nellie Moody Jones’s Molasses Whoopie Pies, 76–77
Pennsylvania Dutch Pumpkin Whoopie Pies, 78–79
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, 70–71
Two Fat Cats Bakery Whoopie Pies, 38–39
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Whoopie Pies, 36–37
LABREE'S BAKERY
Introduction
“A book about whoopie pies?” I hear you ask. “Is there really that much to say
about whoopie pies? The answer is a whopping yes!
The moment of the whoopie pie is now. These sweet treats are the ultimate
comfort food. They’re unpretentious and home-grown, nothing like highbrow
crêpes and soufflés. Even the name is cheerful and uplifting. The definitions for
whoopie (or whoopee) include “an exclamation of joy or excitement.” Making
whoopie means to “engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.” These definitions
all aptly describe the human interaction with the whoopie pie: eating a fistful of
whoopie pie in all its squishy, creamy sweetness is certainly joyful, can be
exciting, and is absolutely celebratory.
Of course, the phrase “making whoopie” is also a euphemism used by the
entertainment industry in the early days to suggest amorous activity while
circumventing the censors. Some whoopie pie aficionados may in fact equate
eating whoopies with its more salacious connotation.
This book will tell you everything you want to know about the wonderful
whoopie, from its debated origins to its modern-day adaptations. And the more
than a dozen recipes will have you making some whoopies (the edible kind) of
your own. Happy reading, baking, and, most important, eating!
A whoopie pie’s a wondrous thing,
Like newborn pups or early spring.
It fi lls the mouth with rapture sweet,
This yummy chocolate sandwich treat.
—Anonymous