Whoopie Pies
Source of Recipe
Amy Dacyczyn
List of Ingredients
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 cup cocoa
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
3/4 cup *sour milk* -- *add 1 tbsp vinegar to 1 cup milk &
let sit 10 min.
1 teaspoon vanilla
Filling---
1/2 cup milk
2 1/2 teaspoons flour
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Recipe
To make cookie: Cream sugar and shortening. Add cocoa and egg; mix well.
Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk/shortening mixture.
Add vanilla & mix well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes at 375 degrees.
To make filling: Cook milk & flour til thick. Chill until cool, then beat well with automatic beater. Add remaining filling ingredients, and mix well.
Pair off cookies by size; add filling to make sandwiches.
Freeze!