SOUTH PORTLAND – They’ve made whoopie in Maine. A big whoopie pie.

In an effort to outdo Pennsylvania, a South Portland radio station teamed up with a whoopie pie maker to create a massive one that tipped the scales at 1,067 pounds Saturday.

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Amy Bouchard, fourth from right, owner of Wicked Whoopies, gets some help putting the 180-pound devil’s-food cake top on the 1,067-pound whoopie pie that was assembled at the Maine Mall in South Portland on Saturday. Radio station WMGX and Gardiner-based Wicked Whoopies joined forces to create a pie that would surpass Pennsylvania’s 250-pound confection. Cheryl Senter/The Associated Press

Onlookers watch as the whoopie pie is assembled. Cheryl Senter/The Associated Press

State Reps. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville, and Emily Cain, D-Orono, sponsors of a bill to declare the whoopie pie Maine’s official “treat,” were on hand as it was assembled at the Maine Mall in South Portland.

The idea was to outdo Pennsylvania, where people created a 250-pound whoopie pie in September at an annual festival in Lancaster County.

“We’re just stealing the title from them,” said Randi Kirshbaum, program director of WMGX, the radio station that joined forces with a Gardiner business called Wicked Whoopies to make the huge treat.

A friendly competition has broken out since Maine tried to claim the whoopie pie, which consists of chocolate cakes filled with creamy frosting. Pennsylvania took exception to Maine’s claim, saying whoopie pies were actually invented by the Amish.

A forklift was needed to manage the devil’s-food top and bottom, baked beforehand.

A big crowd that watched the event got to eat some samples. Kirshbaum imagined that after that experience, some of the onlookers might be sick of whoopie pies for a bit.

Other parts of the giant whoopie will be wrapped up and sent to Maine troops overseas. And others will go to a local food bank.A forklift was needed to manage the devil’s-food top and bottom, baked beforehand.

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