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November 2 2011

(via Coujo - Click through the image or this link for the article) I grew up in Lancaster County, and I was born in Maine. Whoopie pies are in my blood from both heritages.The Pennsylvania Dutch kind: Chocolate, pumpkin, red velvet, oatmeal, even chocolate chip, and they’re still priced right around $1 at most Amish bakeries and farmstands in Lancaster.  The whoopie pie creation story that he knows is the common one: Frugal Amish housewives didn’t want to waste any little bit of cake batter, so they made little pies. When their husbands found the treat in their lunch pails after a morning of strenuous labor in the fields, they would shout “Whoopie!” In 2004, not long after I moved into Philadelphia proper, I had a whoopie pie party - very few people I was friends with knew what they were at the time. I layed out fresh baked chocolate and pumpkin cakey halves (and sneakily slipped the burnt ones in an empty drawer - shhh!) and let everyone dollop their own icing in between to their hearts’ content.  The Lancaster Amish and Mennonite have sold them at the farmer’s markets in Philadelphia for years, inexpensive and delicious. And then they became a boutique treat replacing the cupcake, smaller and pricey than the Amish original. Haley’s friend Lindsey quit Urban Outfitters and started making whoopie pies as Coco Love - the small kind I see in coffee shops that I refuse to pay $2.50 for, though I’m sure they’re tasty and I admire her daring, I can’t pay that much on principle. In the article, Lindsey Love takes a tour through Lancaster to taste all the goodness and discover its origins. You can follow her Coco Love tumblr of pretty tasty treats and buy her treats through the web site.

(via Coujo - Click through the image or this link for the article)

I grew up in Lancaster County, and I was born in Maine. Whoopie pies are in my blood from both heritages.
The Pennsylvania Dutch kind: Chocolate, pumpkin, red velvet, oatmeal, even chocolate chip, and they’re still priced right around $1 at most Amish bakeries and farmstands in Lancaster. 

The whoopie pie creation story that he knows is the common one: Frugal Amish housewives didn’t want to waste any little bit of cake batter, so they made little pies. When their husbands found the treat in their lunch pails after a morning of strenuous labor in the fields, they would shout “Whoopie!”

In 2004, not long after I moved into Philadelphia proper, I had a whoopie pie party - very few people I was friends with knew what they were at the time. I layed out fresh baked chocolate and pumpkin cakey halves (and sneakily slipped the burnt ones in an empty drawer - shhh!) and let everyone dollop their own icing in between to their hearts’ content. 

The Lancaster Amish and Mennonite have sold them at the farmer’s markets in Philadelphia for years, inexpensive and delicious. And then they became a boutique treat replacing the cupcake, smaller and pricey than the Amish original.

Haley’s friend Lindsey quit Urban Outfitters and started making whoopie pies as Coco Love - the small kind I see in coffee shops that I refuse to pay $2.50 for, though I’m sure they’re tasty and I admire her daring, I can’t pay that much on principle.

In the article, Lindsey Love takes a tour through Lancaster to taste all the goodness and discover its origins. You can follow her Coco Love tumblr of pretty tasty treats and buy her treats through the web site.