Whoopies!

My mom was just here and she was such a sweetie! My puppies really miss her too and today Pablo looked at the guest room door and cried, it was the cutest thing! Love you mom!


In my recent (numerous) drives to and from Palm Springs, I kept noticing a billboard for West Coast Whoopies (http://www.westcoastwhoopies.com/). I had never heard of these before but they looked like cupcake sandwiches and, with my love of baking, I knew that I had to research them!

After a few minutes on the internet, I found that it pretty much is a cupcake with icing in the middle instead of on top (like those little debbie oatmeal cakes probably) and I knew that I needed to try them! I really wanted to make chocolate with german chocolate filling, but Jon doesn't eat chocolate and I didn't want plain vanilla, so I decided on Angel Food cake with strawberry marshmallow filling. I just made a mix of the Angel Food cake and spooned the batter onto a cookie sheet. They really spread out and stuck to the parchment paper (I know that Angel Food cake really isn't the kind of cake to use for this, but it just sounded so good!) but I ate one and it was good. I'll make the filling once I'm done with them! It shall be interesting!

I made 12 (11 now that I ate 1) and the rest of the batter I'm making into mini-loaves just so it's not a total loss if the whoopies don't work out this time!