Classic Whoopie Pie vs Clafoutis aux Cerises (Cherry Clafoutis)

Both desserts lean on butter, eggs, milk and two kinds of sugar, yet put them to very different work. The whoopie pie creams butter and granulated sugar into a cocoa batter baked as mounds, then beats more butter, shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla into a fluffy filling for a chocolatey sandwich eaten out of hand. The clafoutis whisks four eggs with sugar into a thin milk-and-cream batter poured over cherries and baked until puffed and set, giving a tender, fruit-studded dessert finished with just a dusting of powdered sugar.