Funfetti "Whoopsie" Pies

(#10) Master 25 New Recipes

1. Stuffed Peppers
2. Risotto
3. Polenta
4. Beef Brisket
5. French Onion Soup
6. Chocolate Chip Cookies
7. Lentil Soup
8. Macaroni & Cheese
9. Zucchini Bread
10. Chicken Piccata
11. Moussaka
12. Chocolate Cake
13. Zebra Cake
14. Chili
15. Cornbread
16. Steamed Artichokes
17. Baked S'mores
18. Barbecue Chicken
19. Meatballs
20. Waffles
21. Omelette
22. Chex Mix
23. Kale Chips
24. Tofu
25. Whoopie Pies

Finally done with the recipes. It was a whirlwind of cooking for the last few weeks of my 25th year; so exhausting in fact that it has taken me this long to talk about it.

The unfortunate thing is that we are ending the recipes on a low note.

I started with this recipe that I found on Pinterest. Funfetti + Whoopie Pie, how could you go wrong? Well, turns out you could. Some things were my own mistakes, and some things were just...not good.

And by some things, I mean the 2 1/4 cups of Crisco that were needed for the filling. Yuck. Maybe if I didn't know that was what it was made of I would have enjoyed it. But as it was I found the filling to be stiff, greasy, and unpleasant.

The recipe was not very clear about how to form the cookies, and since it was actually a cake mix they did not bake flat like normal cookies. So I wound up with giant mounds of whoopie pie that were way too large to use on their own but that became awkward to hold when I tried cutting them in half and stuffing the middle.

We wound up throwing most of them away unfortunately. Also, we still had the giant vat of Crisco when we moved and it melted in the car and got grease on two of Ronnie's tuxedo jackets. So basically, worst recipe ever.

Anybody have any advice on perfecting the whoopie pie?