Any good reason for makin' Whoopie

It seems everyone is making Whoopie Pies now, and for good reason they are just divine, I stumbled across this recipe a few years back and loved them, but never made them too much as my husband is not a big sweet treat person and is more savoury (which my other post is just for his tastes), they have been around for decades and did not appear in publication until the 1970's.

Food historians believe that it was the Amish women living in the Pennsylvania region in the USA who created the Whoopie. Whoopies are certainly a part of culture for them and are sold at all Amish markets, and farmers markets etc. One view is that the origins of the Whoopie lie in medieval Germany, and when the Amish settled in Pennsylvania in the nineteenth century, they brought the Whoopie with them. Another unproven notion is that the Amish women baked leftover cake mixture and put the resulting pies in their husbands and children's lunch boxes, on later opening their lunches and finding the goodies, the latter shouted
"Whoopie" for joy.  - Susanna Tee

There is a big thing happening with stores opening now selling purely Whoopie Pies of all colours, flavours and shapes and sizes, and you can literally come up with any one you like they are that easy.

Stayed tuned for the pictures of todays Strawberry Whoopies and the recipe...