Pumpkin whoopie pies
Yield: 3 Dozen pies
Ingredients:
- 2 c Sugar brown
- 1 c Oil
- 1 1/2 c Pumpkin cooked; mashed
- 2 Egg
- 3 c Flour
- 1 ts Salt
- 1 ts Baking powder
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 1 1/2 T Cinnamon
- 1/2 T Ginger
- 1/2 T Cloves ground MMMMM--------------------------FILLING-------------------------------
- 1 Egg white; beaten
- 2 T Milk
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 1 c Sugar
Instructions:
confectioners Cream the sugar and oil. Add the pumpkin and eggs. Add the flour salt baking powder soda vanilla and spices. Mix well. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 F. for 10 to 12 minutes. Make sandwiches from two cookies filled with the filling. FILLING: Mix all ingredients; then add one more cup of confectioners' sugar and three-quarters cup of shortening. VARIATION: Adding half a cup of ground black walnuts gives these cookies a special delicious flavor. From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens (1984)



