PrintSugar Rush: Whoopie Pie From Milk & Cookies
In Cobble Hill, the whoopie pies made by One Girl Cookies is a fine example of a whoopie pie done right. Soft cookie-cakes in flavors of pumpkin and chocolate, with a nicely proportioned fill of cream cheese frosting. In the West Village, Milk & Cookies is an example of a whoopie pie ($3.50) gone horribly wrong. Here the cookies are not cookie-cakes, but overblown chocolate cookies, hard and crunchy. Crunchy in a way that indicates they've been sitting out a bit too long. The cream cheese frosting: gloopy, sugary and dried out at the edges. Combined, they make a horrific pair. Stick to the cookies (the mint chocolate chip is a particular winner), but avoid the whoopie pie at all means.
Milk & Cookies Bakery
19 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014 (map)
212-243-1640
www.milkandcookiesbakery.com
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6 Comments:
Oh, the horror!! Still love the ones at Columbine, when they are available. Check the specials, in season soon.
dbdtron at 3:26PM on 08/28/09
My favorites can be found at Baked in Red Hook. The ones I had from One Girl Cookies were dreadful. They shouldn't have been serving them. I still can't figure out if they were stale or just way overbaked.
CornflakeGirl at 12:01AM on 08/29/09
If the filling isn't made of shortening, it can't be called Whoopie Pie.
KWBrown at 7:40AM on 08/29/09
Don't understand the obsession with Whoopie pies anyway!
Totally disgusting!
jlewfoodie at 1:18PM on 08/30/09
Where I live (not whoopie pie territory) it's popular for bakeries and grocery stores to offer sandwiches made of two enormous crunchy cookies with a frosting-like filling. Disgusting, but potentially delicious--except for the obvious fact that when you bite into the cookies all the filling gooshes out. That's just one thing that makes a soft whoopie pie so wonderful.
I used to know a wonderful web site that sent them by mail order, but I've lost the URL.
ChloeA at 7:30PM on 08/30/09
That's a bummer, milk and cookies is usually great. Big fan of their ice cream sandwich and brownie sundae. Ditto on the Baked shout out. Baked has amaaaaaazing everything including whoopie pies.
cg_ups at 10:51AM on 08/31/09