A whoopie recipe!!

Alas this is not one of my own, but it is brilliant thus I shall share! This recipe came from 'The Times - The Table' Supplement a few weeks ago and is wonderful!

Ingredients:
115g Soft butter
200g Brown sugar
1 Egg
225ml Buttermilk (Or 225ml milk mixed with lemon juice..my sneaky tip)
60g Cocoa Powder
5g Bicarbonate of Soda
190g Plain flour
5ml Vanilla essence

Method:
* Preheat the oven to 200*C.
* Grease your baking trays / Use parchment.
* Cream together butter and sugar.
* Add the egg to the mix.
* Add the vanilla to the mix.
* Sift the dry ingredients - flour, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda - twice (Though I am not one for faffing this is well worth doing as it adds air to the mix and a lightness of texture).
* Add half the flour to the wet mixture (eggs etc.). Fold in lightly.
* Add half the buttermilk to the mixture. Fold in lightly.
* Add the remaining half of the flour to the mix. Fold in lightly.
* Add the remaining milk and fold in lightly. Your mix should resemble a very stiff sponge almost a cookie mix.
* Spoon the mixture onto a baking tray. For a biscuit sized Whoopie use a teaspoon and cook for 7 minutes. For a traditional burger sized Whoopie use a tablespoon and cook for 9 minutes (Cooking times may slightly vary with different ovens).

A FEW LITTLE HINTS:
* Work lightly with this mix as it shouldn't be overmixed.
* Use a large metal spoon to fold to avoid overmixing.
* It may seem there are a lot of steps but they are well worth following as there are hardly any mixing agents used and this adds air and lightness in their place.
* Take the time to 'quenelle' the Whoopie mixture onto the tray as otherwise they have a tendency to burn around the edges.

GO FORTH AND MAKE WHOOPIE!!