Whoopie Pie Cake - 5 Step-by-Step Recipes

There are wars over territories, and there are confectionery wars for the right to be called the birthplace of a particular treat. It is such a “sweet war” that several US states are fighting among themselves, trying to prove the authorship of goodies from two halves of chocolate biscuit and cream. And while they were at war, the pastries managed to turn from a cake into a Whoopi Pie cake and spread around the world.

Classic Whoopie Pie Cake

In the classic version, the dessert has a fairly rich chocolate flavor. This is explained by a rather large amount of cocoa in the dough.

Proportions of ingredients for baking cakes:

• 250 g butter;
• 210 g sugar;
• 12 g of vanilla sugar;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 350 g of flour;
• 100 g of cocoa powder;
• 10 g of baking powder;
• 5 g of soda;
• 2.5 g of salt;
• 130 ml of freshly brewed coffee;
• 140 ml of fatty kefir.

Step-by-step baking:

1. Beat the butter, melted to the consistency of soft plasticine, beat with a mixer with both types of sugar, then add eggs one at a time.
2. Mix and sift the loose ingredients separately. In a high measuring glass, mix kefir and coffee.
3. Continuing to mix the dough with a mixer, introduce kefir-coffee mixture and bulk components into it in three or four stages. It will turn out to be quite thick and well-kept in shape, viscous-viscous dough.
4. Divide it into equal portions and bake four cakes. The oven temperature is 180 degrees, the duration of the heat treatment is 20 - 25 minutes.

Collect the cake, first by dropping round drops of cream with the help of a pastry bag on the cake surface, and then covering it with the next cake. The top of the dessert, covered with the same creamy droplets, can be sprinkled with cocoa and garnished with mint leaves. Suitable design options for the classic Whoopie Pie will be given below.

With mascarpone

Whoopi Pie cake with Mascarpone has become very popular and, oddly enough, in Kazakhstan. So, more than 80% of Instagram photos with a hashtag from the name of the dessert were made in this republic.

For Mascarpone cheese cream you will need:

• 200 g of Mascarpone;
• 350 g butter cream for whipping:
• 150 g of powdered sugar.

How to make a cream:

1. Whip cream directly from the refrigerator until a lush and stable structure along with icing sugar.
2. Next, mix the cold cheese into small pieces in a creamy mass. This should be done with a spatula or spoon with clockwise rotational movements. In the end, you can briefly break through the cream with a mixer at high speed.

In order for the cream to whip well, it is necessary to cool not only them, but also the capacity for whipping, and the beaters of the mixer.

Whoopi Pie Cake with Cheese Cream

Alas, not at every grocery store you can buy Mascarpone, but also using a more affordable type of cheese (cottage cheese), you can prepare a moderately moist and stable cream, ideal for this cake.

In this case, you need to take:

• 400 g of soft butter;
• 100 g of powdered sugar;
• 450 g pasta-like cottage cheese (9% fat);
• 100 g of condensed milk.

Working process:

1. Using a blender, grind the cottage cheese into a homogeneous paste along with condensed milk. For maximum elimination of all grains, pre-cottage cheese can be pressed through a small metal sieve.
2. Beat the butter with a mixer into a lush creamy mass along with powdered sugar.
3. Then it remains only to combine the cottage cheese with butter, mixing both masses with a spatula.

So that the cream for the cake does not exfoliate, all components must be at room temperature.

For the same reason, whipped butter and cottage cheese are not mixed using kitchen appliances, but only by hand.

With cream and sour cream

At the same time, an airy and stable cream based on oily cream and weighed sour cream is also ideal for layering chocolate cakes of this cake.

 

The list and ratio of ingredients of cream-sour cream will be as follows:

• 600 ml of sour cream with a fat content of 20%;
• 200 ml of fat cream from 33%;
• 100 - 150 g of powdered sugar.

Cooking:

1. Line the colander over the pan or bowl with gauze in four layers, transfer the sour cream into it and put the structure for 48 hours in the refrigerator.
2. After that, transfer the well-chilled cream, weighed sour cream and powdered sugar into a deep bowl or bowl and beat in a lush cream.

If there is no time for weighing, then you can use a thickener for sour cream, which is whipped separately with it, and then interfere with whipped cream with powder. The cream is important not to overdo it.

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Making a Happy Pie Cake

Cake “Pay Pie” is simple not only in preparation, but also in design. Its sides do not need to be carefully leveled with cream, and to decorate the top, you can use cream dripped with droplets, as was suggested in the classic version, or chocolate icing.

For chocolate icing should be prepared:

• 80 g of high cocoa black chocolate;
• 80 ml of heavy cream;
• 10 g butter.

How to make fondant and decorate a cake:

1. Chop a bar of chocolate into small pieces. Bring cream to a boil and pour into chocolate chips, stir until smooth.
2. When the mixture becomes smooth, add soft butter and mix again.

Spread the liquid fondant on the cake’s upper cake layer, and on top you can beautifully lay fresh berries, sprinkle with chocolate crumbs from the cake slices, confectionery sprinkles or decorate with a few small cupi pie cakes.

How to make a number

You can make a cake “Buy Pie” in the form of numbers, which corresponds to the latest trends in the confectionery fashion.

To do this, you first need to prepare a template of a full-size cardboard figure that will correspond to the size of the cake, and the further algorithm of actions will be as follows:

1. Knead the dough for shortcakes and divide it into 3 - 4 parts, depending on the size of the numbers.
2. On a parchment sheet, distribute one portion of the dough evenly so that you can then cut a figure out of it according to the template.
3. Bake the cake until ready. From the hot workpiece, carefully cut the figure, remove the trim, and leave the prepared cake to cool on baking paper. So do the rest of the cakes.
4. Cook your favorite cream. On a rectangular substrate, collect the cake, dropping cream onto the cakes with droplets, as in the classic version. Additionally, you can decorate the dessert with sweets and berries.

Like any cake, this dessert needs some time to soak the cakes, so it is better to make the final touches in the decor in the form of bezes, marshmallows and strawberries just before serving.

Cooking with Grandma Emma

A detailed examination of a simple chocolate cake makes it clear that this recipe from Emma's grandmother almost completely repeats the classic Whoopi Pie recipe. Of course, there are slight differences in the proportions and in the cream used, but if you put in the filling not dark but white chocolate and layer the cakes with cream droplets, you get the real “Wow pie”.

For chocolate cakes it is necessary to prepare:

• 200 g butter;
• 450 g of sugar;
• 3 eggs;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 2.5 g of salt;
• 400 ml of kefir (can be replaced with sour milk);
• 350 g of flour;
• 30 g of cocoa;
• 10 g of baking powder.

For a simple chocolate cream you will need:

• 500 ml of heavy cream;
• 500 g of chocolate.

Stages of baking:

1. The dough for shortcakes is kneaded similarly to the classic recipe: the butter is whipped with sugar, eggs are introduced into the resulting lush mass, and then in three or four doses alternately kefir and a mixture of loose components.
2. Two crusts with a diameter of 24 cm are baked from the batch at 180 degrees. Ready biscuits should be allowed to cool and lay down for at least 5 hours.
3. While the cakes are baking, cream should be taken. Pour the crushed chocolate with the cream brought to a boil, stir until smooth, cover with a film in contact and after reaching room temperature put in the refrigerator for five hours.

When both the cream and the biscuits lie off the time allotted to them, you can begin to assemble the cake. For greater juiciness of the dessert, you can soak the cakes with syrup.