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By Serious, on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:00pm PDT
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I've
always liked Jane and Michael Stern because they are driven by the
kind of passionate, unapologetic appetite that isn't easily
sated. That's why they continuously wander the country, looking
for the last really good chili dog, up to their elbows in whoopie
pies and… Read More »
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Until I moved to Vermont, I had never heard of whoopie pies—a cream-filled cakey chocolate sandwich cookie originally from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They have a cultlike following in New England. At every roadside stop between here and Maine they are piled up in neat little stacks. And they’re quite delicious…but often made with a filling of sugar-laced shortening. So they’re not so stellar nutritionally.
We decided to makeover the classic
whoopie pie and we had great success. Here’s how a traditional whoopie pie stacks up against our madeover version:
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