Whoopie!

Whenever someone asks me where I'm from, I usually say Canada first and then specifically, Vancouver, if they ask. Vancouver was the last place where I lived for a longer period of time, ten years as matter of fact and it's a great city. I miss the mountains, the temperate winters, the amazing food scene, and of course, my family. Vancouver has it all. However, the majority of my childhood was spent in small town New Brunswick, and I'll always be an East Coast girl. My husband accuses me of still having a Maritimer twang after all of these years.

Now, growing up my mother would bake pretty much everything for us kids. She loved to do it and was great at it. One of my favorite items that she made were little chocolate cake sandwiches with a creamy vanilla filling. They were perfect little treats that were half cake, half cookie but were called Whoopie pies. I thought every kid grew up eating these but over the weekend, as I went to whip up my first batch of pies, I learned a sad but true fact, not every kid grows up eating these. Kids like my husband, and according to my internet research, kids in areas outside of the eastern part of the country.

So, for all of you non-East coasters, Whoopie pies are similar to those packaged chocolate snack cakes that you find at the convenience store in boxes adorned with a little girl on them. Similar, except if you make them yourself, they're a million times tastier. I used this recipe for the cake part and if you go into the reviews for the recipe, there is a recipe for a cooked butter cream that in my opinion, made for the perfect, traditional east coast Whoopie pie.