From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...These delicious "sandwiches" are a riff on the chocolate version that most folks are familiar with. According to food historians, Amish women would bake these desserts (known as hucklebucks, or creamy turtles at the time) and put them in farmers' lunch pails or lunch boxes. When farmers would find the treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!". Hence the name. It is thought that the original whoopie pies may have been made from leftover cake batter. As the harvest season draws to a close, the appearance of pumpkins in farmer's markets is a sure sign that it's time to put the heady spices associated with fall to work, and there is no better way to do that than to whip up some pumpkin treats. Duly motivated, I pull out my pumpkin recipes, of which there are an admittedly ridiculous number, and start to work my way through the lot. We, of course, have favorites, and, if there are young boys or teenagers around, these pumpkin whoopie cakes, known to the grandchildren as poltergeist pies, are always among the first of the recipes to be made. The pies are a bit more work than cookies, but anyone sitting at your table will love them, and you may even garner you a round of applause when they appear on your table. They are not a pretty treat but they are enormously flavorful and will please those who like sweet treats. These pies are filled with a marshmallow buttercream rather than the more common cream cheese filling, so you will find them to be quite rich and filling. The pies are not hard to make and you can have them on the table in about an hour. Here is how they are made.
