Whoopie Pies

Wrapped up in plastic like hazardous material and sporting ingredient lists that read more like failed science experiments than food, my earliest exposure to whoopie pies at a gas station pit stop was not exactly compelling. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the appeal of squishy, week-old cake wrapped around achingly sweet frosting, piled up on the counter like a basket of brown tennis balls. It took many more years to find the subject worthy of reexamination, not to mention a total gut-renov