When Betty Crocker found out how much BBand I love baking, she asked if we would review her new Whoopie Pie mixes. By Betty Crocker I actually mean the PR department because Betty is in fact not a real person (she was created by Marjorie Husted in 1921) but it sounds good don’t you think?
Anyway, when asked to review a cake mix that is very chocolatety, the answer was always going to be a big fat YES!
Long-time American favourites, whoopie pies are delicious mini sponge cakes sandwiched together with sweet, fluffy icing. Thought to have originated in Pennsylvania, they reputedly get their name from farmers shouting “whoopie!” upon finding them in their lunch boxes.
BBand I made them last Friday night. I have to say for toddler cooking the mixes are perfect because it skips all the measuring and weighing part that they either get bored with, or get over excited with and you end up with flour everywhere! It jumps straight to the mixing bit, which BBloved. It was so easy and the additional ingredients of vegetable oil, water an egg and milk are all things you would have at home anyway, so no special buying involved either.
BBmixing!
Teddy is in the picture because he had to help!
My only flaw with making the pies, was my stupid oven which just gets too hot whatever temp you put it on and they cooked much faster than the stated time allowance, so just be on guard! Other than that we had load of fun!
The whoopie pies retail at £2.15 and come in two flavours including Chocolate and vanilla and Double Chocolate.
Both were extremely yummy and I and BBloved the filling in both.
Our finished pies!
Taste Testing
I could not get over how simple they were and how easy to throw together and such great fun in the kitchen.
You can also find Betty Crocker on Facebook and on their website.
So I have a fab giveaway running for the next 10 days where you can win a pack of both the Double Chocolate and Chocolate and Vanilla Whoopie pie mix and I have three sets to giveaway, so three of you could be lucky winners!
All you need to do is follow the instructions below! Good luck!
You can also…
Share your Whoopie Moments
To celebrate the arrival of the new Whoopie Pie Mix range, Betty Crocker is calling for the nation to share their Whoopie Moments – those moments when something unexpectedly exciting happens to you that makes you “whoop!” with joy. Like when a friend pops over as a surprise or your partner comes home with an unexpected present, or just the excitement of watching the cake rise in the oven! They happen all the time, but they’re great and should be celebrated.
Just search Betty Crocker UK on Facebook and upload your ‘Whoopie Moment’ to be in with a chance to win an exclusive family trip to the home of the whoopie pie – Pennsylvania, USA. Or if you don’t have your own Whoopie Moment to share, why not give a friend or loved one something to whoop about by nominating them for a special Whoopie Moment.
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My daughter is only 17 months but she did enjoy helping me beat some eggs when I was making a sponge cake the other day.
Mmm Whoopie pie’s sound yum yum for my tum tum!
I have to admit I have never seen these before.
We make fairy cakes quite a lot. I think we are going to try gingerbread this week too.
We love making butterfly cakes – eating the buttercream as we go xxx
We love baking cupcakes. They are our absolute favourite x
Fairy Cakes with my daughters as they love to decorate them and the boys love making jam and lemon curd tarts as they love spooning in the jam and lemon curd!!!!
We like to bake shortbread biscuits
Chocolate cake! simple but so nice!!
@Dorothee77
We love making Gingerbread men – we even have Holloween shapes and Christmas shapes!!!
mini cupcakes!! They love putting the sprinkles on top of the buttercream and they are quick and easy to make which is just as well because they never want to wait too long to eat them!!
I love Betty Crocker. I like to make my own cakes but you can’t beat a packet mix if the kids want to get involved. It’s so much easier for them and they feel like they are doing it all themselves.
My favourite thing to bake with K’Boo and H’Boo is shortbread cookies – easy ingredients, easy to mix, lots of getting your hands in the bowl, shaping, pressing and they are so melt in the mouth yummy afterwards!
Chocolate fairy cakes
we like making cookies , num , num , num
Fairy Cakes.
Rise Krispie cakes
@littleboo_21
With big bean; cupcakes as watching him lick the bowl out is fab and his attention to detail decorating is great from an ADHD child.
With middle bean; biscuits. He loves stamping the shapes out with cutters
he also sits and watches them cook until the oven beeps! Adorable!
With mini bean; giant cupcakes. She’s tiny so the cake is almost the size of her and her eyes always pop when she sees the size of the finished product.
Of course they all taste absolutely disgusting…not.
Crispie cakes
we make scones or chocolate tiffen quite alot!
chocolate cake
We love making white chocolate cookies The smell is amazing!
Has to be fairy cakes. So simple but the results are always great.
By the way is it true Betty Crocker isn’t real? Noooooo! Next you’ll be telling me there’s no such person as Ronald Mcdonald!
My favourite things to bake with my daughter are butterfly buns.
chocolate cupcakes.
I like making cookies, biscuits, cupcakes and cakes.
We like making alsorts of things although we’ve never made Whoopie pies.
We love making cupcakes and adding different things to it
fairy buns- although she likes making them much more than eating them, which is not good for my waistline!
They look devine.
Yummy Yum!!!
I could really do with these…I have recently bought a whoopie pie tin but have never made whoopie pies! I like to make pizza with Jack as he just gets on with it x
pumpkin cupcakes with orange and honeycomb sprinkles :-))
oh damn, it says bake…does pizza count? if not it would have to be gingermen!
x
love baking brownies
My little one loves baking especially Fairy Cakes but he’s also a dab hand with the leftover pastry when we make daddy an apple pie
We make all sorts, mostly controlled by me as my children are very young but the have bits sorted into bowls ready to add. The last three things we have made are rolled biscuits, lemon tarts and cheese nibbles, (This is just puff pastry and grated cheese, easy but they think its great)
cupcakes
Fairy Cakes because mt two daughters make them look so pretty and they taste good too!
chocolate cake
Tiny chocolate cakes.
My 2 year old son loves helping me bake cakes and cupcakes.
i’m not very good at baking so we always buy the packs!! but i love to make brownies while my son likes to make fairy cakes!!
Natasha xx
I haven’t been brave enough to try any baking with JW yet but if I win these I’ll let him help out 😉 x
Me and my princess love to make gingerbread men
they look yummy!! x
Baking and decorating cupcakes! Although its more fun for me to be honest! xx
My grandaughter is just starting to make pastry.She loves making mince pies at the moment.
my kids favs gingerbread men , must admit sometimes they have extra parts lol
Cupcakes
yummy
They love to make smores!
x
my niece loves to bake biscuits when she visits, she likes to make as much mess as possible when icing them
@daisyangel1
if its savoury they love making homemade pizza and if sweet its choclate cake
My son is to young to bake with, he is 4months, but when old enough it will be cupcakes.
we love to make fairy cakes with butter cream filling yummy
We love making rice krispie or corn flake cakes, not very original, but there is never any left, which as a mum of five with a tight budget is important.
We all made this years Christmas cake, everyone had to have a turn a mixing up the mixture, I held the bowl (very tightly) whilst Dad helped them stir & mix.
I’ve actually made two this year, one with no alcohol & then another one thats soaked in the stuff LOL, that will be my slice for Christmas night when its all peaceful – shouldn’t have said that out loud as we all know what will happen now.
Merry Christmas to all of you. xx
My twins and I like to make rice krispie cakes 😀
the url for my tweet is https://twitter.com/#!/Picklepie35/status/146344809085415424
i dont think it copied correctly above 😀
Chocolate rice crispie cakes, because even I can’t go wrong with them lol
x
My LO is only 1 and she loves banging minnie mummies baking bowls all over the floor when i am baking keeping her busy so i can bake until she is old enough to help
we are having lots of fun making huge amounts of mince pies & xmas puddings
A lovely chocolate sponge cake
Gingerbread men!
Cupcakes are great to bake with the little ones as they can be as creative as they like when decorating
Thanks for the giveaway
We love to make bread
Rice Crispy Cakes – yum..
chocolate chip cookies
Sugar cookies, and then ice them in various colours.
Trifle!! We love deciding what the layers will be x
cupcakes, love decorating them!
My daughter is too young to help cook at the moment but my nephew loves it when we make pancakes
Chocolate biscuits
pancakes
lemon squares
these are my fav cakes!!
any Cakes
Cupcakes
My 5yr old loves to ‘help’ bake fairy cakes and muffins
cupcakes