Need a Party Dessert? Try a Whoopie Pie!

We're entering wedding season in the next few months and we've been browsing through wedding blogs and magazines. One of the most frequently served desserts recently is Whoopie Pies. We think they're adorable, easily adapted to different palettes, and small enough to serve to crowds.

When our special day comes, we plan on making a lot of the food ourselves. We pride ourselves on being a great home cook and think we could spend what is typically a costly catering budget in other areas. Since we live in Philadelphia — it would only be tradition for us to serve Whoopie Pies at our wedding, Pennsylvania has an entire festival dedicated to the delectable treat.

We recently came across the Wilton Whoopie Pie Pan and immediately bookmarked it. The nonstick pan has enough slots to make tops and bottoms for six pies. It also comes with a ten year warranty — should anything happen to it!

We're thinking of buying several so that we aren't only baking six at a time (especially if we use these for a wedding, we'd be baking for weeks!). They're also reasonably priced at $12.95 from Sur la Table.

Would you serve Whoopie Pies at your wedding or special event?

Comments (16)

Um yeah.. I don't even know what a whoopie pie *is*.. but they look yummy!

you don't need a special whoopie pie pan...save your money and just get some extra cookie/baking sheets at Marshall's or TJ Maxx! the consistency of the batter lends itself to baking up into wonderful little round cakelettes. also, good call on making whoopie pies for a wedding. super cute, cheap(er), and you can do ANY kind of cake flavor imaginable!

I agree with lissac2412! No special pans required for whoopie pies. The batter is made to bake up just so. An ice cream scoop is about the only other tool you might want to make all the cakelets the same size.

Um, you mean "palates." Just sayin'

Not recipe....recipeS.

This post got me excited for a couple variations of them I could make this weekend. :(

Actually, "palettes" is right here; see all the colors up above? :-)

This is my mom's whoopie pie recipe. I am not a big chocolate person - not a fan of brownies, hate chocolate cake, etc. (I know, it's blasphemous!). But these whoopie pies, my friends, make me a believer. Sooo yum.

2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup milk

Cream the shortening, sugar, and egg. Sift dry ingredients together and add to sugar mixture, alternating with milk, add vanilla. Drop by Tablespoon onto cookie sheet. Bake at 375degrees for 5-10 min. Until done They will spread out a bit. Let cool on baking rack.

Cooked filling:
1/4 cup flour
1 cup milk
Whisk together in saucepan and cook until thickened over medium heat
Let cool
Beat 1 stick of butter
1/2 cup crisco
1 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
fold cooled milk mixture into butter mixture. Frost 1 whoopie pie with filling and cover with another whoopie pie of about the same size.

LOL. Maybe we should have been more specific...

Does anyone have any low fat recipes?

My wedding is a year from now and we aren't doing a traditional cake-the plan since day 1 has been whoopie pies, alfajores, and ice cream! i can't wait :)

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1 Box Devil's Food Cake Mix (or any other flavor)
1 Stick of Unsalted Butter
2 Eggs

Beat with a mixer until the batter is thick.

Roll into 1 inch balls and bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes. When touched they should still be soft, when you think they're probably not done- they most likely are. : )

I used Betty Crocker Whipped Fluffy White icing- there is a difference between this icing and typical white icing, this is so much better! Make sure they're completely cooled before you put the icing in between the "pies".

i think low-fat whoopie pie is an oxy moron ; )

yeah, you're right.

but still 1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 cup crisco and 1 stick of butter is a little much I think.

:)

I'm sorry but I have to say the use of the royal "we" is pretty dang annoying. "We pride ourselves on being a great cook" just sounds ostentatious and ridiculous. Why can't your articles be written in the author's voice instead of this vague communal "we"?

The shortening recipe is the same one my aunt passed done to me...not crazy healthy...but crazy delicious!