Appreciation: Whoopie Pies

Our Volunteer's Appreciation Tea is on February 10, 2012 and eighteen library staff and trustees are making sweet treats to share with all of our invited volunteers. The only rule is that the recipe must be from a book that is in the Minuteman Library Network's collection (or adapted from one.)

My daughter, Beth, is a wicked-authentic Whoopie Pie lover.  In other words, Whoopies must be chocolate and must have a marshmallow filling as far as Beth is concerned.  I love her traditional nature!

True to form, I'm going rogue instead. Here are four recipes I am trying from one of the library's cookbooks, Whoopie Pies: Thirty Recipes for Treats for Every Occasion.

Click on the links below or the recipe listing to the right.
Snickerdoodle Whoopie Pies
Oatmeal and  Raisin Whoopie Pies
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Banana Maple Cream Whoopie Pies

Update:  So, okay, Beth.  There might be a reason to stick with the traditional here! Gerry's favorite was the Oatmeal and Raisin Whoopie Pies.  The pie was a bit cookie-like and it was almost like an ice-cream filled oatmeal cookie with a nice touch of orange peel. These pies also looked the best.  The Gingerbread were not gingery enough (although there was candied ginger in the filling) and they were very dry. The Snickerdoodle were soft and closest to traditional whoopie-pie consistency but the filling was sweet and the overall taste too much.  The Banana Maple Cream were a bit dry and the cream filling made me nervous due to its consistency. The crushed pecan edging was very nice, though.

Overall?  I won't go to this much trouble again! But we had 19 plates of treats for our volunteers who absolutely loved our efforts. Grapefruit macarons, carrot cake, Queen Anne's cake, bars, cookies and Challah with honey.