So - apparently whoopie pies are the new "it" cake in London, unseating cupcakes, eclairs and macaroons for this title. Well - I'm not convinced. I bought two today at Barnes Farmers Market from a very nice woman selling delicious looking cakes (their brownies looked amazing) - one vanilla and one chocolate with some sort of berry cream filling. I was quite excited to taste them and even though the photo above looks a bit unappetising, these seemed like fine specimens. Maybe my expectations were too high because I can sum up my reaction to my first whoopie pie as...underwhelmed. It's not that they tasted bad...in fact they pretty much tasted like eating pure sugar (which is not a bad thing sometimes) - it was just they didn't taste amazing and to be crowned as the pastry of the moment you need to taste amazing. So give me a red velvet cupcake or a piece of carrot cake or a blondie from Bea's of Bloomsbury any day!
I agree!!! Whoopie pies taste like arse albeit sugar-coated arse.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I would go that far - but I know where you're coming from!
ReplyDeleteI hate it when something that looks good turns out bad, although I can't say I find them too appetizing myself in the photograph. There's got to be some reason why they are the new trend...
ReplyDeleteI too am underwhelmed by whoopie pies in the main. When I was in New York I travelled out to some godforsaken industrial area to try some famed whoopie pie from a place called Baked, and then I ate it and was like, meh. However, I did have a salted caramel whoopie pie from KookyBakes the other day which was delicious. I don't think it will manage to oust cupcake from being the trendleader at the moment still.
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