the.com/whoopie pie
Two cakey cookies bully a tub of frosting into becoming a sandwich.
means A soft, cake-like chocolate cookie sandwich stuffed with a thick, fluffy filling of frosting or marshmallow cream.
from Thought to have roots in Pennsylvania Dutch baking, where cooks supposedly used up leftover cake batter by dropping blobs onto a sheet and sandwiching them with frosting — the delighted cry of 'whoopie!' from kids who found one in a lunch pail is the charming folk story behind the name, though no one can confirm it actually happened that way. Maine and Pennsylvania both claim the treat as their own, and the truth of its exact birthplace remains genuinely disputed.
- origin dispute
- Maine and Amish Pennsylvania both claim invention
- not a pie
- legally and structurally, it is cake
- state title
- maine's official state treat since 2011
- name origin
- supposedly from kids shouting whoopie upon finding one