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The World’s Largest Whoopie Pie Whoopie pies sparked an interstate battle in 2011 when Pennsylvania and Maine traded bakers’ blows over which state is the rightful birthplace of the treat. Enter Amy Bouchard, founder of Farmingdale, Maine’s Wicked Whoopies and fabled queen of the form, who sought to settle the score by baking the world’s largest: a 1,062-pound, 2,186,700-calorie whopper five times the size of her Pennsylvania rival’s. Maine celebrated by naming the soft sandwiched cake its official state treat, second only in standing to the official state dessert, blueberry pie. PHOTO: RANDALL SMITH |
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Kelly Senyei is an associate editor at Gourmet Live and author of the forthcoming Food Blogging for Dummies (Wiley, spring 2012).