Many modern housewives prefer to pamper their loved ones with homemade desserts. Unlike store counterparts, they lack dyes and flavor enhancers. In recent years, the American “Whoopie Pie” has been gaining more and more popularity. The recipe for this cake will be presented in today's publication.
General recommendations
Cooking this unusual dessert does not require specific skills. Therefore, any novice culinary specialist can easily cope with this task. As a rule, some difficulties arise at the stage of preparation of the cream. To get everything right as you need, you should follow a few simple recommendations.
Cream for Whoopi Pie can be creamy, buttery or sour cream. Moreover, many housewives consider the latter option the most successful. For its preparation, it is advisable to purchase not too acidic and thick enough sour cream. Then your cream will be better to keep the desired shape. To make sour cream easier to beat, it is preliminarily kept in the refrigerator for five hours. So that grains are not felt in the finished cream, sugar is often replaced with powder.
Bake “Whoopie pie” (cake) at a temperature of 180 degrees. Raw cakes are placed in a well-heated oven and left there for about 20 minutes. The readiness of the product is checked with a toothpick.
Cream Cheese Option
The original recipe involves the use of marshmallow cream. However, far from all domestic stores you can buy this light American marshmallow. Therefore, in this case, curd cream will be used instead . To bake a delicious “Whoopie Pie” (cake) you need to make sure in advance that your kitchen has all the required products. This time you will need:
- 100 grams of granulated sugar.
- Large chicken egg.
- 120 grams of softened butter.
- Half a tablespoon of baking powder.
- 50 grams of cocoa.
- 130 milliliters of milk.
- 200 grams of flour.
- A pinch of salt.
Since “Buy Pai”, the recipe of which is discussed in today's article, consists not only of cake, but also of cream, the above list needs to be expanded. Additionally, it is added:
- Half a glass of greasy cream.
- Two cups of powdered sugar and cottage cheese.
Process description
First of all, you need to do the test. To do this, pre-sifted wheat flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt and baking powder are combined in one dish. Optionally, add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Milk, softened butter and a raw egg are sent to the same container. All is well mixed with a mixer operating at low speed.
The finished dough, in appearance resembling not too fat sour cream, is poured into a mold greased with vegetable oil and placed in the oven. Bake the future “Whoopi pie” (cake) at a temperature of 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
While the cake is in the oven, you can do cream. For its preparation, powdered sugar, cream and curd cheese are combined in one bowl . Whip all ingredients with a mixer set to maximum speed.
The fully baked cake is removed from the oven, cut lengthwise into two parts and smeared with the resulting cream. If desired, pour dessert with melted chocolate.
Option with espresso and sour cream
This recipe is slightly different from the previous one. It involves using a completely different set of ingredients. Therefore, before you make “Buy Pai”, be sure to make sure that you have the required products. In your kitchen you should find:
- 350 grams of wheat flour.
- A pair of chicken eggs.
- 210 grams of sugar.
- A bag of vanillin.
- 250 grams of butter.
- For 130 milliliters of milk and espresso.
- A teaspoon of soda.
- 100 grams of cocoa powder.
- Two teaspoons of baking powder.
To prepare the cream, you need to pre-purchase 600 milliliters of fat sour cream, 150 grams of sugar and a bag of vanillin. In addition, in this case, the cake will be watered with fondant. Therefore, a little butter and 80 grams of dark chocolate and 20% cream should be added to the list of products.
Sequencing
First you need to do the test. For its preparation, softened butter, sugar and vanillin are combined in one dish. All beat well with a mixer. Raw eggs are introduced into the resulting mass and mixed again. After that, pre-sifted flour, salt, soda, baking powder and cocoa powder are poured into the same container.
Milk, lemon juice and strong coffee are poured into separate dishes. The resulting liquid is combined with the butter-flour mass and mixed well. The finished dough is divided into four parts, laid out in forms and sent to the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
Baked and slightly cooled cakes are greased with a cream made from sour cream, sugar and vanillin. Ready “Whoopi pie” (cake) is poured with chocolate fondant and sent to the refrigerator.