Pies of course, what else were you thinking about?
Having admired many photographs of these and having tried M and S ones, I decided to have a go at them myself.
I am not a baker, think it comes from me being more of a throw it all in and see what happens type of girl! I know that baking is more of a science and I do try but I have a reputation for making delicious cakes but they look awful! To quote a current advert “you can’t measure taste with a spirit level!”
Back to the pies; I found two recipes- one from Simon Rimmer from Something for the Weekend - Chocolate Whoopie Pies
and one from the Sainsbury’s magazine Vanilla Whoopie Pies
Both the recipes were fairly easy to follow, using different methods to add the marshmallow filling. I particularly liked Simon Rimmer’s melting marshmallow technique, reminscent of childhood marshmallow toasting. However, my problem came with the size of the pies. Both spread out during the cooking process and I ended up with huge whoopies!!!! The chocolate ones looked liked cookies and had a cookie like texture when eating. The vanilla ones were more of a cupcake sponge like quality.
The proof of the pie is in the eating and I had two willing volunteers (who had both tried my baking before and survived!!!) -the more popular ones were the vanilla ones; the chocolate ones were too chocolatey, maybe because of their large size! I may make them again but will continue to research recipes to find one that might work for an incompetent baker like me!
