BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – The Whoopie Pie festival was back again Saturday in Rutland, bringing people all the cakey creamy goodness, but also an attempt at a world record sized whoopie pie.
“It tastes like chocolate and it’s really sweet,” Naomi Klosheim of Rutland said.
“Just seeing all these people that I know and love just supporting each other, the happiness, the kindness, the goodness, I just like the goodness about this. And it’s an incredible day. It’s beautiful out,” Christina Sweet of Rutland City said.
Love for Rutland was overflowing as thousands took to the streets to eat some tasty treats in whoopie pies of all varieties.
“The whoopie pie is sweet,” Kelty Klosheim of Rutland said.
Crowds gathered downtown, and the talk of the festival was if a team from Dream Maker Bakers would be able to break a world record for largest whoopie pie.
That team is led by Megan Wagner
“I told my father in fourth grade that I was gonna open a bakery one day, and for Christmas that year, I got 1001 muffins at the baker’s bible, and I’ve been tearing apart kitchens ever since,” Wagner said.
She’s ambitious, and all day people kept checking in on the progress.
Channel 3 was also in on the fun doing auditions for The Price is Right.
Above all, the day is about celebrating community
“I love seeing the joy of the children, especially as they’re wandering around town with stuff all over their faces and having a really great time,” Sarah Ginolfi of Rutland City said.
Late in the day, the gigantic whoopie pie was finished, and needed some heavy machinery to see if it in fact beat the world record whoopie pie.
“I feel absolutely incredible. A world record just got broke, 1187 pound whoopie pie,” Wagner said.
Wagner wasn’t originally wasn’t going to go for the record this year, but a shop in Maine called them out, so they rose to the challenge. A massive whoopie pie, now a centerpiece of the festival.
“They were looking for a baker who would make a big whoopee pie and they were having a tough time and I’m always up for a challenge, and I said yes. And three years later, we made a world record,” Wagner said.
