Has anyone ever made "whoopie" cakes?

bubbs

I saw these in the sainsbury mag, saying they are the new muffin, just wondered if anyone had tried them?

midnightraven3

we made the chocolate ones
they are REALLY sweet & sickly
but i am not cake fan anyways
son loves chocolate and he loved them

we used this recipe

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/451718/Chocolate-whoopie-pie

bubbs

ohhhhhhhh i love chocolate and cake so may try them lol :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

radiohelen

I made the ones from the Mail on Sunday magazine the other week. I love my cake, I love cupcakes and I was more than ready to try this new "craze" which is apparently sweeping Harrods.
The whoopie pies were easy to make but they were singularly disappointing. They were over sweet, over sized and over hyped. The recipe said it made 6 whoopie pies. If it had made just 6, they would have been massive, I mean MASSIVE. I made ten and they were more than adequate. The cake is dense and chocolately, a bit like rock cake texture, and the buttercream was nice. It made them look like giant Oreos but it also made them VERY sweet.
The thing is, according to everyone in the US, that's the point. They are supposed to be rustic, homely, big, unsophisticated things. That's what makes everyone think fondly of them, a bit like school puddings or rock buns for us. They never have icing on them either. That's just to try and convince people they are "pretty".
By all means try them, but don't expect them to look like the pictures - they are like the McDonalds menu board.... you never had a Big Mac that looked like that picture did you!

voiceofreason

They sound rubbish and a bit impractical, tbh - you know, as if Sainsbury's are trying way too hard to hype something up?

It kinda struck me as the kind of thing that maybe one of the high-level managers at Sainsburys Magazine had a bee in their bonnet about and pretty much forced onto the cover of the mag. Nothing wrong with them per se - hell, I love a good cake! - but at the same time, nothing to go mad over......

angeltreats

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I've taken a fancy to make some of these I have the Sainsburys magazine with the recipe in, has anyone tried this particular recipe or can you recommend a different one? Ideally I'd like to make some lemon ones.

kittykat500

angeltreats wrote: »

Can you recommend a different one? Ideally I'd like to make some lemon ones.

Do a search on foodgawker.com there are page loads of recipes and two for lemon whoopie pies. Never tried them myself as hate buttercream! Hope this helps.

shellysue

do you have to have the buttercream in the middle? it looks like a lot of buttercream.

angeltreats

Thanks for that link, looks like a nice website

I've seen recipes with cream cheese icing in the middle, and the Sainsburys recipe uses marshmallow icing (I can feel my teeth rotting just thinking about it).

SallyForth_2

shellysue wrote: »

do you have to have the buttercream in the middle? it looks like a lot of buttercream.

I've never heard of Whoopie pies until now, so I just googled some images.

Looking at them, I would say you can sandwich the parts together with whatever you like. I was thinking maybe some cream cheese based frosting, like what they put on carrot cake, and I don't see why you can't use less to make it less sickly.