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Whoopie Pies
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 0 Minutes
Ready In: 0 Minutes
Servings: 18
Just like I remember them... HUGE chocolate cookies with cream filling.
Ingredients:
2 2/3 c flour
1/2 c hersheys dark cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 c sugar
1/2 c shortening (i use spectrum organic)
2 eggs
1/2 c sour milk
1/2 c coffee-hot
filling
1 c milk
1/4 c flour
1 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 c butter
1/2 c shortening
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Grease or silpat a large cookie sheet.
3. Combine dry ingredients.
4. Combine coffee and sour milk
5. In another bowl beat sugar and shortening until fluffy
6. add eggs and vanilla.
7. Beat well.
8. Add flour mixture and sour milk mixture alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
9. Drop by generous tablespoonfuls onto baking sheet,
10. flatten slightly with wet fingers.
11. Bake 10-12 minutes or until cookies spring back when touched lightly.
12. Remove and cool completely.
13. Filling
14. In microwave safe bowl mix :1 c milk and 1/4 c flour until no lumps remain.
15. Microwave, stirring every minute until thick like paste.
16. Set aside to cool completely.
17. In a medium bowl beat 1 c sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 c butter and 1/2 cup shortening until mixed and fluffy.
18. beat in cooled flour mixture and whip until light and doubled in volume, about 5 minutes.
19. If it s hot it may not whip up exactly right but chill and and whip again. As long as it mounds on a spoon it will be fine..
20. Put a spoonful of the filling on the flat bottom side of one of the cookies
21. top with another cookie, so that the flat parts are against the filling. Refrigerate.
22. Dust tops with confectioners sugar before serving if desired.
By RecipeOfHealth.com