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" You know how I feel about cupcakes. One word: evil. And it seems that we&amp;#x27;re now facing another viral pastry epidemic: whoopie pies. No, not the packaged kind that are pumped with preservatives. I&amp;#x27;m talking about the luscious, cream-filled confections that may be coming to a bakery near you... **** The New York Times ran a story yesterday about whoopie pies--basically soft cookies sandwiched between a creamy, icing-style filling--which some food experts are predicting to be the next big thing (even though they&amp;#x27;ve been around forever). Where there were once whoopie-less shelves, you can now find the yummy treats at Trader Joe&amp;#x27;s and Whole Foods, and they recently found their way into the Williams-Sonoma catalog ($49 will buy you a dozen). Not to tempt you or anything, but I found a pumpkin-filled whoopie pie variety (that I&amp;#x27;m kind of drooling over) from a small bakery in Pennsylvania called Kitchen Kettle Village. Yum. Some are blaming the economy on the whoopie pie craze. That is to say: We&amp;#x27;re more apt to want to sink our teeth into a 500-calorie dessert when we&amp;#x27;re stressed. What do you think? Do you fear the whoopie? (And is that not the funniest name for a dessert ever?!) Photo: Kitchen Kettle Village"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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