Simply Wicked

I love to eat. Oh, not the healthy stuff, unfortunately. I crave sugar -- and if it has chocolate in it, all the better. I wish it wasn't this way. I really do. I wish I craved fruit and vegetables; but alas, it is not nor will it ever be that way. I have also noticed that sugar helps me deal with stress. Not good . . .

I woke up this morning craving these little gems. It was early and no one was up, sooooo . . .

Many years ago my mother introduced me to Whoopsie Pies, a homemade delectable with plenty of chocolate and sugar and gooey cream cheese frosting in the middle. (But she had the self-control to only make them occasionally.) I still love them and probably prefer them, but they are a huge project to make.

When one of my daughters was in homemaking class in junior high school she shared a recipe for mock Oreo cookies, and they make a pretty satisfactory subsitute for Whoopsie Pies. They're a lot easier to make, too.

It was a pretty nice Saturday morning.