Oddfellows Cafe Wants Your Whoopie Pie
Alternative Headline: Wow, I got through an entire post about making whoopie pies and didn’t include one “making whoopie” joke.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jun 29, 2010 at 02:44PM
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How’s your whoopie pie recipe? Pretty solid? Then read on. (If you don’t have any idea WTF a whoopie pie is, skip to the bottom of this post.)
On July 21 at 11am, Oddfellows Cafe will host a whoopie pie bakeoff. Professional and amateur bakers will submit their cakeburgers to a panel of judges.
Judges include Molly Moon Neitzel, owner of Molly Moon’s Ice Cream, and Christopher Frizzelle of the Stranger. Categories include best traditional, most original, and crowd favorite.
Event organizer Tallulah Anderson wasn’t ready to reveal which pro bakers are competing in the contest, so I can’t tell you whom, exactly, you’ll be baking against. But if you want to enter anyway you should email her at Tallulah@lindashq.com. There are 10 spaces left.
Anyone’s welcome to stop by the cafe to sample the whoopies, vote for crowd favorite, and watch the judging.
A whoopie pie is basically a patty of frosting sandwiched between two round pieces of cake, traditionally chocolate or devil’s food. This from Wikipedia: “According to food historians, Amish women would bake these (known as hucklebucks at the time) and put them in farmers’ lunchboxes. When farmers would find these treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!” As a native of Pennsylvania Dutch Country (a hotzone of whoopie pie activity on the East Coast), I’m inclined to think this claim comes less from “history” and more from the marketers employed by the Ye Olde General Store tourist traps that line the highways of my hometown.
Tags: Oddfellows, Baking Contests, Amish Eats,
I’ve been making a Martha Stewart recipe since it appeared on her show a couple years ago! My family loves these…and the filling with the marshmallow cream is incredible. Photos here: http://thatskinnychickcanbake.blogspot.com/2010/06/whoopie-pies.html
WHICH Oddfellows are you talking about? There are two, completely unrelated.
There is an Oddfellows GRILL in Downtown Redmond, but there is but one Oddfellows Cafe, so far as I know. It’s on Capitol Hill and it loves whoopie pies.
How about a gluten free whoopie pie?
Would someone PLEASE explain to me why this contest is on a WEEKDAY!! Not only is my heritage being exploited, but I can’t even be there to witness it. Or make you chocolate whooipie pies with peanutbutter filling, like the kind from Root’s market. TALK about adding insult to injury!!