I have not been this excited about mastering a recipe in years! Reading the news paper predictions on what’s  “hot” this year in the line of culinary arts, I could not stop myself from flying into the kitchen to bake up an enormous storm as whoopie pies are going to be in vogue this year.

I  had a lot of fun making these outrageously indulgent and seriously delicious whoopie pies. At first the song “Makin’ Whoopee” by Frank Sinatra got me going, singing in the very non-musical voices that we have.

It bugged me for a while at first as I  knew there was a song with these words, well I hope you get the idea and feeling of the amount of fun I had creating this incredibly yummy cake.I had to read up on whoopie pies and it’s said that they apparently originated in Maine, amongst the Amish community. The Amish wives used to bake small cakes from their leftover cake batters, sandwiched them together with butter cream, and packed them into the lunch boxes of their children and husbands.

The name is claimed to have originated from when the husbands and children opened their lunch boxes and found these delights they would scream “whoopie”. Well even if this is untrue and only a myth I want it to be true.. as I ate one chocolate smeared on my face and there was something magical and romantic about these pies .

I know that the song and the cake are not linked in any way shape or form but it helped me to create this desirable recipe. It was rich getting a good recipe from the internet and then discovering that they should be chocolate flavored, but then the only recipes that made any sense were pumpkin flavored which confused me even more.

So I approached the “whoopie project” by developing my own recipe. The results were outrageously good and I screamed “whoopie” when they came out this good!  I garnished my whoopie pies with a glossy chocolate glaze and sprinkled them with leftover Christmas cookie sprinkles to give them an extra touch of glamour and class. The traditional butter cream filling was replaced with a salted crunchy peanut cream cheese filling…ooh it’s incredibly good and adds a crunch and salty sweet nuttiness to this heavenly cake.

Can you tell I like my Reese’s peanut butter cups !  They say the cupcake is 2009 so watch out for whoopie pie!