I’ve been promising my friend Emily for a while that we’d have a baking date, and today the stars finally aligned. After much debate (“What should we make?” “I don’t care.” “How about Whoopie Pies?” “What the hell is a Whoopie Pie?” “Great, it’s settled then.”), we decided to make some Whoopie Pies. It’s been a while since I’ve used brown sugar in a recipe. Which is a shame, since brown sugar adds such great sweetness and depth of flavor to food. Sometimes granulated sugar just doesn’t cut it, you know? The recipe I found called for marshmallow fluff in the frosting, but the Safeway near my apartment didn’t have any, so I just said “screw it” and made a batch of cream cheese...
