Bake Sale Imminent!!

heretoday

Our parish is having a spaghetti dinner/bake sale quite soon. I usually bring a couple of banana cashew loaves, and whatever kind of cookie I have the ingredients for (if I make chocolate chip there's never enough left for a bake sale!).
How about sharing some yummy bake sale goodies recipes? I'd like to bring a surprise along with the good old banana-cashew!

heretoday

P.S.:
If you have a good chocolate chip something recipe, I wouldn't mind having it to make for later...thanks

Laughingmouse

Whenever I am faced with providing a dessert, I break out a canned pie filling and a pre-made, graham cracker pie crust.

I add a little whipped cream to the top, once the filling is in the crust, chill it, the shave a few chocolate curls to go on top of the whipped cream.

No baking, but yum to the core!

heretoday

It's funny, I just made a banana cream pie the other day and I never thought of it for the bake sale.
If you buy the ready-made graham cracker crust you not only have a time saver, but turn the plastic lid over and you have a nice sturdy cover for your pie.
I'm wondering though, how long whipped cream will last on the pie? I can't stand the various cool whips so it must be whipped cream. I put the whipped cream on each piece when I make it at home. Anyone with some good pointers about how to keep it fresh and fluffy?

katharina

I haven't taken anything to bake sales... ever actually, so I don't have a "surefire hit" recipe... BUT I do notice that when I see a bake sale there are usually pretty many whoopie pies and rice krispies treats, so they must be good sellers.

heretoday

Katharina, I know about rice crispy treats but I've never heard of a Whoopie pie (great name, by the way!) What are these made from?

katharina

It is two large and fat soft cookies (chocolate or pumpkin are best) with
homemade cream filling in the middle. And soooo loaded with calories it's
not funny. But individually wrapped, they go really fast at bake sales.

heretoday

Those whoopie pies sound absolutely delectable!!! I think those would definitely be a hit at the bake sale. You wouldn't happen to have the recipe, would you?

katharina

I wish I did! But truthfully I always buy them at... yep, you got it, bake sales. That said, there should be plenty of recipes for them online. Just compare a few. They should be described as soft chocolate cookies with a creamy filling. You'll be able to tell from the ingredients which recipe should work better for you.

heretoday

I am definitely on the internet prowl for whoopie pies! Even if it's just to say that I have eaten such a thing. I love that name...!

katharina

I got two mini whoopie pies at the farmer's market this morning... chose a chocolate with fluffy peanut butter filling and a pumpkin with sweet white filling. If it had been one of my naughty days, I'd have gotten an oatmeal and red velvet, too.

I only had the one and my daughter got the other, so it worked out.

heretoday

I admire your restraint, katharina; if it had been me I would have bought one of each! I'm still on the prowl for a recipe for whoopie pies...

katharina

I'll confess something about that. I'll be going back in two weeks and I knew
that at the time, so the thought was "oh well, I can get more next time."

heretoday

The pumpkin whoopie pie with vanilla inside, is that kind of a carrot-cake white (cream cheese?) topping? Sounds heavenly. If they really wanted to hook me they'd make a chocolate with a fluffy chocolate mousse kind of filling.

katharina

It's actually any kind of filling the cook wants to put in the middle, I think. I've had the "plain" sweet fluffy kind and some have cream cheese, yes. One that I haven't had, unless I've forgotten, is chocolate filling. I've also had red velvet whoopie pies... that would be the cream cheese filling, too.