Whoopie Pie – Recipe Development

I’ve spent a lovely afternoon playing with ingredients to make sure that I have a whoopie pie recipe perfected for the workshop in September, and I have succeeded.

All while my wonderful medium sized girl was doing her 11+ homework bless her.  Photo shoot completed tonight so now the children can eat all the whoopie pies.

I made dark chocolate whoopies with chocolate orange buttercream and an orange fondant icing.  Most of the whoopie recipes call for glace icing, pah, rubbish, bring on the sticky fondant, if you’re going to go for a sweet, sticky mass of fat and sugar (let’s not kid ourselves here, if you eat loads of these you will turn into a small house, so moderation please) that tastes amazing then let’s not cut any corners, bring out the fondant, it just tastes sooo good, with freshly squeezed orange juice you can kid yourself that as you’re using no additives therefore it’s healthy.  Sorry, it isn’t healthy but it will have more vitamins than using additives.  Still doesn’t count as healthy though, fabulously tasty but not healthy.

The second batch were filled with white chocolate buttercream (white chocolate, butter and icing sugar – nothing healthy there then!) with fresh raspberries (ooooh health alert, health alert, steady on people there may be something healthy creeping in – if you look closely at the picture the raspberry has been positioned so it looks like it’s sticking it’s tongue out as you) and a raspberry fondant icing.  No additives, the icing is that gorgeous pink due to using fresh raspberries, if I’m honest here I’ll confess that I only used 2 raspberries, yes, just 2 single raspberries.  Sidney our black labrador puppy has eaten the rest off the canes, these few were the ones he couldn’t reach.  So two raspberries made sufficient icing for 6 whoopies, tastes fantastic too.

My favourites are the chocolate orange ones, i’ve been trying to justify eating them by only having a quarter of one, but when you’ve had a quarter of four of them that’s the same as eating a whole pie and the same effect on your hips – you have to go down the gym to work it off or you’ll turn into a small house.  Guess where I’m off tomorrow morning, having a diet coke to offset any more calories.

If you haven’t booked on the whoopie pie workshop on 22 September

Whoopie Pies

then you’d better get a move on, if you move quickly you use up calories and could justify eating one the wonderful whoopie pies you’ll make and take home, go on, quicker than that, RUN!