Whoopie Pies!

I was asked to post the recipe to my family's favorite cookie, so here it goes!

I could probably make these every other day, and they would all be eaten still, but I try to space it out a bit, you know...for health reasons :p

Whoopie pies are a soft chocolate cookie (with a brownie like texture), held to another soft chocolate cookie with frosting. Can you say sugar coma?

What you'll need:

2 cups Sugar

1 cup butter or margarine

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

4 cups flour

1 cup cocoa

2 tsp soda, dissolved in 1 cup warm water

1 cup milk

What to do:

First, cream together the sugar, shortening, eggs, and vanilla. It will look like this:

And it will taste like this:

Then, add flour, cocoa, and soda/water mixture. Mix well. Add milk and stir thoroughly.

The mixture should be the consistency of thick whipped cream, and should look something like this:

Want some?

Drop by tsp onto a cookie sheet...I make them fairly small since you will have two held together with icing when you're all done!

I use the pampered chef medium scoop to scoop the batter...it makes it so easy and hassle free (man, you would think I sell pampered chef! LOL. I don't...just an avid user!).

Bake @350 for 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

As the cookies are cooling, make your frosting:

1 tsp vanilla

2 Tbsp flour

2 Tbsp milk

4 Cups icing sugar

1.5 cups crisco (or margarine)

Cream together ingredients for your frosting!

As an extra, my family loves adding peppermint extract to the icing, and I usually let the kids pick a color for the frosting too. This time, we went with ocean blue :)

Enjoy your Whoopie Pies!