I purposefully turned a blind eye on the whoopie pie trend last year. Who needs a special pan to make one kind of treat? Let's ignore the fact that I bought a cream canoe pan to make Twinkies for a friend's birthday. Though I have actually used it for other things. Remember my homemade corndogs ? When I had some leftover amaretti and leftover sea salt caramel, I decided to revamp them and make my own version of the whoopie pie or, as I prefer to call them: hucklebucks. According to food historians, Pennsylvania Amish women would bake what they called 'hucklebucks'. They would tuck them into their husband's lunch boxes; and the story goes, when men would find the hucklebucks in their lunches, they would shout "Whoopie!" Whoopie! Amaretti 2 egg whites 1 C organic granulated sugar 2 C ground almonds Beat egg whites to stiff peaks. Gradually beat in sugar, again, forming stiff peaks. Gently fold in ground almonds. Spoon mixture onto parchment pape...
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