Amish Oatmeal Whoopie Pie Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups quick-cooking oatmeal, not instant
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 tablespoons boiling water
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup vegetable shortening

Recipe

• 1 for oatmeal cookie mixture -- cream butter, sugar and eggs.
• 2 sift together flour, salt and baking powder and add to creamed mixture.
• 3 add cinnamon and oatmeal.
• 4 mix well. add soda to hot water and add to batter -- mix well.
• 5 drop by tblspoon onto greased cookie sheet;
• 6 bake 19-15 min in 325* oven.
• 7 for filling, combine egg , vanilla, milk and 1 cup of powdered sugar.
• 8 cream well.beat in mixing bowl about 10 minutes.add rest of ingredients and beat an additional 2-3 minutes.
• 9 put filling between 2 cookies.
• 10 wrap each whoopie pie cookie in plastic wrap.