Whoopie!!

I have posted about my love of whoopie pies before, but I'm posting about it again. My mom gave me this cookbook last year for my birthday, and I am just getting around to using it. If you remember, we kinda had a major event happen the week of my birthday last year. You know, becoming parents. Anyway, at the time I looked through it, and then put it on the shelf with all the other cookbooks and stated busy being a mom.

Well, last week one of the blogs I read posted about making whoopie pies. It reminded me about my cookbook and made me really want to bake some. So I got out the book and looked through all of the recipes, and decided I would go with the original whoopie first. I made my list of ingredients I needed to purchase and Saturday afternoon while Michael took a nap (3.5 hours!!) I baked whoopie pies. They turned out so good. I used some cocoa I had in the pantry, but I'm thinking they might have turned out better if I had bought some new/fresh cocoa. Also, the icing had a little too much crisco in it for my taste. Next time I will cut that down and add more if need be. I can't wait to try some of the other favors in the cookbook. Like gingerbread or chocolate chip or jalapeño cornbread.

Sneak Peak

Here's a sneak peak at what I've been busy doing...

Saturday will be here before we know it.

Lots to do before the big Birthday Party!

My Quest to Make the best cake balls

Well, I'm getting better. Practice makes perfect...that's my motto. Of course, the more I practice, the tighter my pants get...hahahaha! But, the people at work love being the taste testers.

Last weekend, I set out to perfect my method of rolling and dipping the cake balls. I tried strawberry cake and yellow cake. After the cake cooled completely, I crumbled it up and mixed in the icing. After it was good and mixed, I put the bowl in the freezer. After the mixture was in the freezer for about an hour, I took it out, and started rolling out the balls.

After all of the balls were rolled out, I put the trays in the freezer and left them over night. The next day, I started the dipping process. Freezing them before hand does much better then when they are soft. Last week, I used a double boiler to melt the chocolate, and it never really got melted completely. This time, I used the microwave to melt the chocolate, and that worked a lot better.

This time I used a spoon to get them out of the chocolate. I have tried using 2 forks and tooth picks, but the spoon works the best.

These turned out a lot better then the ones I did last week. They were covered more completely and with a thicker layer of coating. Still not as good as Bakerella, but I'm getting closer.

And really, it doesn't matter what they look like, because they were Delicious!

Next time, I'm going to be trying red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Both dipped in vanilla almond bark coating.