The Next Chapter in the Whoopie Saga

Yesterday I decided to give another batch of Whoopie Pies a go. This time the flavour of choice was Peanut Butter Whoopies. Rich Chocolate 'cookies' filled with a peanut butter buttercream.

So off I went to the kitchen and started weighing and measuring the ingrediants.

Starting with the dry ingrediants

and then the butter and sugars.
Then it was over to the mixer to cream the butter and sugars. I love this part of the recipe, the beaters going, the sound of the mixer and the physical change that takes place with the ingrediants. I think I am a baking nerd!

A couple of weeks ago I had bought a pan that was for Whoopie Pies/Macarons.

The last time I had attempted Whoopie Pies I used this pan but I wasn't very 'specialised' tray again. The recipe had suggested dropping spoonfulls of the batter on to a tray for baking so this is what I did. Into the oven they went for 10 minutes. And this is what came out

Not the most attractive 'cookie'! It was odd shaped, flat as a pancake and certainly not round. That was it, no more scooping the mix onto a tray, out came the piping bag and 'normal' cookie tray. And woohoo! I had success!

While the cookies were cooling I whipped up a batch of the Peanut Butter Buttercream then sandwiched two cookies together with this delectable salty sweet frosting.