Cream-Filled Chocolate Cookies (Like Oreo Cakesters)

Rich chocolate, cake-like cookies with a creamy filling.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 24 filled sandwich cookies

Ingredients

• 2  eggs, beaten
• 1  cup  oil
• 3  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 8  tablespoons  cocoa
• 2  cups brown sugar
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1  cup evaporated milk

• Filling

• 1  cup vegetable shortening (Crisco preferred)
• 1⁄3 cup evaporated milk
• 2  cups powdered sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa together into a large bowl.
3. Add remaining ingredients; mix together.
4. Drop chocolate batter by teaspoons about 3-inches apart on cookie sheet.
5. Bake for 5 minutes.
6. Remove to a cooling rack.
7. Beat filling ingredients together until creamy.
8. Put the white filling between two cooled chocolate cookies like a sandwich, then wrap in plastic wrap.