Whoops! The Whoopie pies went wrong...

And then they went oh so right again! Having been baking cakes and cupcakes for many a year I decided it was time to give the whoopie pie a go. You would think it would be easy given that they are quite simply two mini sandwiches of cakes filled with delicious buttercream. How wrong could I be! The first batch was an unprecendented disaster and I had no idea why. I stood in my kitchen and puzzled how what should be lovely plumb chocolate chip pies had descended in to what can only be described as a splodge! I was not going to give in and so put in another batch, this time a salted caramel flavour. And they worked, hooray! I discovered that the trick is to have the oven completely up to temperature so that they don't have time to spread and instead cook straight away. The oven obviously hadn't been hot enough the first time and so the now infamous splodge disaster occured. This week I have finished baking another batch of the chocolate chip whoopie pies, just to prove I could do it! At least the disaster cakes didn't go to waste. They were swiftly munched by my husband and his friends after an afternoon of ruby and drinking. Glad to see they aren't fussy!