Meet the new cupcake - whoopie pies. These delicious little treats are baking's latest trend.
Claire Ptak is a California pastry chef who moved to London in 2005 after working at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. She owns Violet, a baking company in East London which supplies her popular Broadway Market stall and is best known for its American-style cupcakes with buttercream frostings that change with the seasons. Violet now is also a cafe and cake shop where whoopie pies have become a much-loved fixture. www.violetcakes.com.
An absolutely gorgeous book by my favourite cake maker in the whole
world -- Jamie Oliver
Move aside cupcakes, whoopie pies are all the rage now * Daily
Telegraph *
The cupcake is dead. Long live the whoopie! * The Times *
Chic and sweet, the whoopie pie has landed. Cupcakes are so last
season * Sainsbury's Magazine *
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