Cook with Arthy shama: Whoopie pie

Remember our idly-upma from left-over idly's?? Here is the same process of converting left-overs to more yummy snack. In Pennsylvania, some farmer's wife didn't want to throw away left-over cake batter. She inturn, spooned them over parchment paper, baked to form cookie-shaped cake. After that, two cake cookies were sandwiched with icing. This initial delight excited the farmer's tastebuds, that he had shouted 'WHOOPEEE' and hence the name. Slowly, and steadily whoopie pie became popular and lots of people preferred it over cupcakes (because of ease of biting into cake first and tasting icing inside rather than cupcakes toped with icing) Now, this whoopie pie is declared as US baked good and is made professionally over a lot of eateries....

Quite interesting, isn't it ? This professionally made whoopie pie, itself is an complex process. They are actually made from butter, eggs and buttermilk. But, as the real concept involved is to balance up the left-overs, isn't it ?? So, I just baked these choco whoopie pie as simple as possible. You can take a look below

Ingredients required

For icing

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Unsalted butter- 30 gm
Icing sugar - 50gm

For batter

Large egg - 1
Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
Maida/regular flour - 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder - Less than 1/4 cup
Baking powder- 1 tsp

Method

Sieve maida with baking powder and cocoa. Keep it aside

Separate egg at room temperature. In a clean and dry bowl, add egg white and beat till foamy

After it gets foamy, add pinch of salt and beat till it forms soft peak. A soft peak is one that breaks whenever you take out ur beater. Just like below pic.

Now add in egg yolk, vanilla essence, sugar. Beat till the mixture is well combined and is creamy. This might take around ten to fifteen minutes

Now add in sieved dry mixture. Beat it till it is combined otherwise you might mix well with spoon too.

One must remember that this whoopie pie must be bit more thicker than normal cake batter. Because you are going to pour this into baking sheet, if your batter is too runny, you might not get proper shape

Pre-heat the oven to 180 degree celsius. Spoon the batter over baking sheet. Just spoon the batter and don't shape them into circle because we want pie to be broader on top.