Whoopi Goldberg in my kitchen.

I saw this recipe during a baking show on TV once and I wanted to try it out ever since. Surfing around the internet I even found a funny little story about the origin of its name:

“According to Amish legend, when children would find these treats in their lunch bags, they would shout “Whoopie!” What’s cooking america

That’s it about history for now, let’s start baking!

 

Chocolate Whoopie Pies

© Jule Helmke

 

 

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup strong coffee or or 1/2 cup water

Filling

1/4 cup vegetable shortening (Magarine)

1/4 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 cup light corn syrup

2 carrots 1 cup(cake)

It’s time! It’s time! After what feels like an eternity I finally decided to bake some cupcakes again! This is actually a recipe that I’ve never tried before, even though it’s not that special or difficult to do, I guess. When I wrote down all the ingredients before I went grocery shopping, I kind of overlooked the number of how many cupcakes you could make from this dough. It was not the usual 12 pieces but 24! So if you don’t want you whole fridge filled with cupcake, divide all numbers down below in half! But on the other side, who doesn’t want their fridge being filled with cupcakes??

© Jule Helmke

Ingredients

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 pound carrots

3 eggs

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups sugar

1 cup oil

1 tablespoon orange zest

3 cups flour

3 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cardamom

1 teaspoon cinnamon

 

Frosting

1 cup butter

16 oz cream cheese

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Ring of nougat.

Whenever I have a lot of things that I should be doing, which are boring, exhausting or just plain not fun, I do something unnecessary instead. Like making a to-do-list of the things that I should be doing. Or baking. Well I did the to-do-list at work already, so what was left? Yep, baking

Today I wanted to make my all time favorites: nougat rings (Nougatringe) which you can buy in every bakery in Germany, I guess. All you need to do is to bake some round cookies, mix a butter-nougat-creme, top it with some hazelnuts and cover everything with chocolate. Et voila: 10000000000 kcal on a cookie. Yummie!!

© Jule Helmke

ingredients:

cookie: 200C 7min

100g flour

45g powdered sugar

1 package vanilla sugar

zest of 1/2 orange

1 egg yolk

60g butter

 

topping:

120g crushed hazelnuts

150g butter

350g nougat

zest of 1 orange

2 packages couverture (à 150g)