What: Wicked Whoopie (Peanut Butter)Where: The Highway, Pennsylvania
Cost: $2.09
Cupcakes are passé, you guys.
Everybody who follows the ups and downs of the hand-held cake industry knows that the new queen in the fairy cake kingdom is the whoopie pie. Or maybe there is something even newer and hipper now, I don't know. I let my subscription lapse.
Either way, this was my first sighting of a whoopie pie in the wild. They seemed relatively fresh-looking, despite the unfortunate placement between peeled hardboiled eggs and cans of Redbull in a gas station just off the interstate somewhere.
Anybody who has ever tried to pack a cupcake into a lunchbox or been shown how to properly eat a cupcake will recognise the whoopie pie's obvious selling point. It is extremely portable. It's basically an icing sandwich.
A lot of the people I cajoled into helping me eat it (it was deceptively huge) compared it to a Jos. Louis. Although they are missing the chocolate coating and are considerably denser, whoopie pies are indeed very similar. Delicious. The addition of peanut butter to the icing was a nice twist.
I definitely see myself making a few whoopie pies in the future, but I still prefer the original. I think a cupcake's inability to be carelessly tossed into a sack somehow adds to its appeal.
7.6/10
HR
2 comments:
Love!
Though I feel slightly bad for the poor, cast-off Whoopie Pies that will now be tossed into sacks with nary a second thought :(
Rest well, Whoopie Pies.
Apple Uglies are some of the snacks they sell at many convenient stores in the south. They aren't gourmet but they are delicious!
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