We 'heart' Whoopie Pies

Take 2 children with a day off school, a pregnant Mum with chocolate cravings and lashings of rain, mix it all together and you end up with 12 amazingly yummy heart shaped Whoopie pies for Mummy to eat!

We used the Whoopie pie recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery cookery book which involves hunting down a jar of Marshmallow fluff for the filling. Luckily we already had a jar in the cupboard so the baking began.

The kids had great fun mixing up the cake ingredients but had even better fun when i let them lick the bowl of the filling leftovers. This gave me a 5 minutes for a peaceful cup of tea. Happiness all round.

Once the cakes had cooled, we used a heart shaped cookie cutter to turn the normal shaped whoopie pies into heart shaped whoopie pies to give to Daddy.

This meant that some of the cake was left over and so the kids promptly polished that off. Not much lunch was eaten but everyone was happy!

This has been my entry for the Cook with Kids Rangecookers competition to win an amazing Select 90df Range Cooker (my dream kitchen NEEDS one of these!) which you can see here.