Grandma Pearl's Whoopie Pies From Scratch

Ingredients:

• 6 tablespoons crisco
• 1 cup sugar (200 grams)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk (1% or 2%)
• 2 cups all purpose flour (250 grams )
• 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder (30 grams)
• 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda (7 grams)
• 4 tablespoons flour (31 grams)
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup salted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup crisco
• 1 cup sugar (200 grams)
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Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.  Grease 2 large baking sheets and set aside.
2. Mix flour and milk together in a medium sauce pan and heat slowly, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken.  Thicken until it's the consistency of heavy cream.
3. Put immediately in the fridge to cool. 
4. With a hand mixer, in a large bowl whip butter for 4 minutes.  
5. Add Crisco and whip for 4 minutes. 
6. Add sugar and whip for 4 minutes.
7. Once the flour and mix mixture has cooled, add the Crisco and sugar mixture and and whip it all together for 4 minutes. 
8. In a large bowl cream together Crisco and sugar.  Add egg, vanilla, and milk and mix together until well combined.
9. In a separate medium sized bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda.
10. Mix dry ingredients into bowl with creamed ingredients. 
11. Scoop 1/4 cup of batter onto greased baking sheets, leaving plenty of room - 2 -3 inches between each scoop. The batter will spread!
12. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes.  Then remove from sheet and let cool.  
13. Assemble the pies by spreading a thick layer of frosting on one pie and then topping with a second.  
14. Enjoy!!