One of the very first things I ever baked as a little girl was a batch of whoopie pies. At the time, I had never heard of a whoopie pie, and the old-fashioned cookbook from which I was baking had no photographs. At this point in time, the only other thing I'd ever made was a batch of cupcakes, so when I saw the recipe for whoopie pies, I had no reason to believe that I would be making anything other than a batch of small pies. As I progressed through the recipe, first making the little chocolate cakes, then the filling, I was skeptical: would these little cakes and filling somehow become a pie? Shouldn't I be rolling out dough somewhere?
When I finished, I looked at my creations, and, cute as they were, I felt duped. Whoopie pies, I concluded, were not pies at all.
For an alternative dairy-free filling, try these Dairy-Free Chocolate Whoopie Pies, which, although they're not vegan, are great for persons who are lactose intolerant or otherwise dairy-free. Filled with an egg-white based chocolate filling, these are a terrific dairy-free combination of the rich, the sweet, and the light.
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