New England Whoopie Pies...Yummy

Decided to make whoopie pies for a change...the original ones chocolate not the new breed...now there are so many variations...pumpkin, red velvet, oatmeal and the list goes on...the recipe is New England Whoopie Pies from Maine so how do you beat that! It was an easy recipe and the results were fabulous. It called for cocoa so I used natural cocoa...which did not give the deep black color we are used to seeing whoopie pies have...when I saw the batter I was disappointed and decided next time to try dutch processed cocoa which will definitely give that dark color but will also alter the flavor...worth an experiment to see what happens.

Brown sugar and shortening creamed till light and fluffy..love the Kitchen aid...no way I could beat this to come close to this texture

Dry and wet ingredients measured and ready to add alternately...remember always start with dry and end with dry...

Batter placed on baking sheet and spread to 4 inches...ready to hit the oven

Look at those little cakes baking in the new oven...go baby cakes go!!!!!

End result...light and airy cakes cooling

All filled with a light fluffy marshmallow fluff filling....so so tasty

Wrapped each cake in plastic wrap as suggest so the cakes don't stick together...of course one did not make it to the wrapping process and was shared by baker and her husband!!!!!

While the color was lighter than expected...the texture and taste was all I had hoped for...nothing like a whoopie pie to make one smack their lips and smile!!!!!

Elizabeth