My My Whoopie Pie!
by Anya Driscoll on 8 March 2010This is probably old hat to most New Yorkers, but the hottest sweet treat to hit London in 2010 is the Whoopie Pie. They might look like bizarre rejects from La Duree, but these are not so much giant misshaped macaroons as a sort of sandwich of cookies with a cream filling from New England. Harrods have recently upped the ante and made this school break snack into a bona fide gourmet delicacy, with flavours including red velvet, pistachio and gingerbread.

However, Harrods is not the only place in London you can sample some whoopie goodness, Hummingbird Bakery has been doing them for ages, and I’m pretty sure I spotted some at Happening Bagels in Finsbury Park.
New Yorkers are spoilt for choice when it comes to whoopie, but the pies at Baked and Magnolia Bakery are particularly famous, the latter branching out to include a ‘whoopie cookie’ consisting of maple cream cheese sandwiched between brown sugar cookies.
One of our Metrotwin contributors Catty recently had a go at making machta green tea whoopies, proving beyond doubt that this is the versatile sweet hit of 2010. Check out her results and read the recipe on her website.
Incidentally, if anyone wants to email me explaining the origin of the name, that would be great, as currently all I can think about is:

Photo by freakgirl and tedreese via Flickr used under a Creative Commons License

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