Icons are our benchmarks, touchstones, and foundations. As we work through Stella Parks’ amazing book, *BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts*, I was immediately drawn to the Oatmeal Creme Pies. This required me to make the Marshmallow filling, which led me to the Cool Whip variation of the marshmallow creme. Stella and I had a conversation about dipping cookies in cool whip as kids— I used soft Archway oatmeal cookies and she preferred chocolate cookies. I immediately thought of whoopie pies and knew I would be making this sooner rather than later. Today, when I made the creamy “cool whip” from her book, it naturally went with chocolate cake. And I’ve even got some left over so that later I can make her oatmeal cookies without the filling and recreate my childhood memory.
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