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Directions:Cake:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
Cream together sugar, Crisco, and eggs. Add sour milk, boiling water, and vanilla.
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa, and salt. Fold into wet ingredients and mix well.
Spoon heaping tablespoon sized drops to make round gobs onto baking sheets that are parchment lined.
Bake for five minutes and set on rack to cool.
Filling:
Mix together flour and mix and cook at medium heat until thick, stirring constantly. Cool.
Cream confectioner's sugar, margarine, salt, and vanilla.
Mix the two together and beat until light and fluffy for about 5 minutes.
Take one cake and add filling then cap it with another piece of cake. Viola' - you have your Gob. Repeat until you have assembled all of the gobs. |
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Notes: This is a standard Pennsylvania treat. When we were young, we often would get a homemade gob as a trick or treat when going from house to house on Halloween. Rick is sad because he never got a gob but in our section of town, gobs were often given out at Halloween. At festivals and other gatherings, gobs were always available for sale.
Homemade is much better than those from Sheetz but in a pinch the Sheetz gob can't be beat.
We know them as “Gobs” because we are from PA but in other parts of the country they are known as “Whoopie Pies”. Whatever you call them, these classic desserts are absolutely irresistible! They consist of two cakey chocolate cookies sandwiched around an old-fashioned vanilla filling. Today I’m sharing my Nonna Rose's recipe, no marshmallow fluff in this one!
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