Sunday, November 20, 2011

Vanilla Whoopie Pies with Raspberry and White Chocolate Meringue Buttercream


Just for Ro...
I had one last whoppie pie recipe to try-the vanilla...I do believe I only need to do chocolate and vanilla, 'cause it's really the filling that makes these cupcookies so heavenly. And today's recipe not only went delightfully well, but also sent me floating in the clouds...I decided I had to be a bit more organized and seperated my tasks evenly. Fist the cookie. Noticed right away that the batter is totally different than the chocolate and wouldn't spread out, so I piped out pretty much the size I wanted and they came out a tad bigger. Then I did the raspberry "sauce"so that it would have sufficient time to cool off. Then, the white chocolate buttercream. This time I didn't listen to Martha. I prepared all my ingredients in advance, warmed up the sugar and the egg whites and by the time they were in my mixer, I could concentrate on the chocolate. I melted it the same way I would to use as decoration-up to a certain heat, then add whole chocolate bits, and then I didn't stir occasionally, I stirred like every two minutes, and watched it like a hawk! By the time I could put it in the buttercream, it was perfect! The only unfortunate thing is, I think it's better to make the entire recipe, instead of half, so I have all this leftover cream, and where can I put it? There is only the fridge...so yeah, I am pretty certain all of the chocolate will get rock solid...and my last fridge buttercream experiment had me rewisk it into a sweet butter mass. Ugh. We'll see, I have an idea...if it works out, I will tell you! Now, I'm off to enjoy my whoopie pies...and then have to go jog a marathon to burn them off!! Whoopie!!!!

6 comments:

  1. Je préfère quand ils ne sont pas décorés!
    NG

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  2. Lol... did I hear you curse? :-)


    Ils sont vraiment très réussis.

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  3. Arghhhhhhh!!!! Je le savais!!!!!! Ceux-ci je les préfères éfectivement pas décorés...je trouve que la couleur dans le milieu est assez...mais j'aimais bien ceux avec le beurre de peanut avec les sprinkles...bien qu'on ne voyait pas le superbe intérieur-super miam!!! T'as décidé ce que t'aimerais manger quand tu seras ici?

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  4. Je dois choisir? Come on!!! Ng

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  5. Very nice Heidi! I cant decide between the two either but perhaps if you made the decoration more simple, like a heart or a spiral... but how did that website do the color to make it come out blended in the actual cake part, can you do that? I think theyre perfectly fine either way, nice job Heidi! Ro

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  6. Nancy, je n'ai pas dis, choisir UNE chose!! T'auras le droit à plusieurs! Et si tu veux rammener de quoi pour Steve!!
    Ro, the woman dyed part of the dough and drew on it before baking. I really didn't feel like doing that! And I made more decoration because less looked weird! I think if whoopie pies were really the size that they sell them at Starbucks, than you could, but these are much bigger, like regular sized cookies stacked, and a few lines just look odd. I will stick to my first impression which is that I don't really like decorating them!!!

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