Whoopie Pies are having their moment!

[elleng]

'FOR generations, vacationers in Maine and visitors to Pennsylvania’s Amish country have found a simple black and white snack in restaurants and convenience shops and on nearly every gas station counter: whoopie pies.

They were found in other pockets of the country, too, from New England to Ohio. But in most of the United States, people could be forgiven for not knowing that the whoopie pie is not, in fact, a pie at all. (It is sometimes described as a cookie, but that is not quite right, either. The closest description may be a cake-like sandwich, or perhaps a sandwich-like cake.)

Now whoopie pies are migrating across the country, often appearing in the same specialty shops and grocery aisles that recently made room for cupcakes. Last fall, they even cracked the lineup at Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan, which helped turn cupcakes into a national craze thanks to the bakery’s exposure on “Sex and the City.” Under the name “sweetie pies,” heart-shaped whoopie pies showed up in the February catalog from Williams-Sonoma. Baked in Maine with local butter and organic eggs, they sell for $49 a dozen.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/dining/18whoop.html?th&emc=th

[hippywife]

1. I made these about a month or so ago.

http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2008/04/lemon-whoopie-pies/

They were good but not lemony enough for me. I should try a dark chocolate one.

:hi:

[sazemisery]

2. The Amish community near here sell these

We have an Amish Bakery store here. They don't bake there but they bring goods from their community about 30 miles north of here. Yummy chocolate cake cookies with white stuff slathered in between.

[hippywife]

3. We have an Amish community here?

Do tell. Where is this store you speak of?

[sazemisery]

4. On Highway 69, on the north side of Muskogee

Where the Antique Mall used to be.

The Amish community is in Chouteau.

[Warpy]

5. I was never impressed with them

Oh, the cake wasn't bad and the marshmallow cream filling wasn't bad, but there was better junk food out there.

Moon Pies were much, much better.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Growing up (in Maine) one of my favorite treats were the neighbor's homemade Whoopie Pies.

We bought them in the corner store too.

[Lugnut]

7. Living in PA has it's advantages.

Whoopie pies and shoofly pies qualify. A trip to the farm stands in the Harrisburg area is a top priority when I visit my daughter in late summer. Freshly baked selections are an added attraction to the fresh fruits and vegetables.