Thursday, February 16, 2012

Chocolate Chip Whoopie Pie


  • 280gr all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 125gr butter, softened
  • 100gr powdered sugar
  • 100gr brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 120 ml buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 200gr semisweet chocolate chips
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg, then stir in the buttermilk and vanilla. 
  3. Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt) and slowly add them into the batter, mixing until just incorporated.
  4.  Stir in chocolate chips and chill for 30 minutes.
  5. in the preheated oven, bake for about 10-12 minutes for large whoopies or until cakes are left with slight impression when touched with a finger.
Filling Suggestion : Fluffy Marshmallow Filling

credits : photo by pinchmysalt

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

North Pole Marshmallow

 
  • Rounded marshmallow / marshmallow log (snip them in two)
  • Red stripes paper straws
  • Rounded choco ball/mini bubblegum
  • Bowl of water
  • White Sugar
  • Paper towel
  • Crisco
  • "North Pole" signs (get the FREE printable design HERE)
  • Scissor
  • Glue
  •  
  1.  Have everything ready, print out the Printable North Pole Signage Template and cut them, prepare bowl of water, paper towel, container for the sugar. Tips: If you cannot find a rounded marshmallow, you can snip marshmallow log in two.
  2. Skewer your marshmallow at one end with a toothpick and quickly submerge it in the water and remove. Dab the excess water with paper towel and sprinkle generously with sugar.
  3. Remove the sprinkled marshmallow from the toothpick and stack them.
  4. Snip the paper straw in two and grease them with crisco.
  5. Insert the paper straw into your stacked marshmallow, snip the top end if they are too long. Glue the choco ball / mini gumball on top of the paper straw ( you can use glue/melted chocolate/icing sugar). Glue the North Pole Sign to the paper straw.
 credits : photo by leelaaloo