Chocolate Whoopie Pies

• FOR THE COOKIES:
• 2 cups All-purpose Flour
• 1/2 cups Cocoa Powder
• 1-1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 cup Well-shaken Buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cups Unsalted Butter, Softened
• 1 cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
• 1 whole Egg
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• FOR THE FILLING:
• 1/2 cups Marshmallow Fluff
• 3/4 cups Vegetable Shortening
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 2 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour
• 2 Tablespoons Milk
• 1-3/4 cup Powdered Sugar

1. Make cookies:
2. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
3. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a bowl until combined. Stir together buttermilk and vanilla in a small bowl.
4. Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a standing mixer or 5 minutes with a handheld mixer. Then add egg, beating until combined well. Reduce speed to low and alternately mix in flour mixture and buttermilk in batches, beginning and ending with flour, scraping down the side of bowl occasionally and mixing until smooth.
5. Spoon 1/4-cup mounds of batter about 2 inches apart onto 2 buttered or lined baking sheets. Bake in the upper and lower thirds of the oven, switching the position of the sheets halfway through baking, until tops are puffed and cakes spring back when touched, about 11 to 13 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool completely.
6. Make filling:
7. Combine marshmallow fluff, vegetable shortening, vanilla, flour, milk, and powdered sugar and beat for several minutes at high speed with a hand or stand mixer until fluffy and delicious.
8. Assemble:
9. To make the whoopie pies, spread a generous amount of filling on a completely cooled cookie. Top with another cookie. Wrap each pie individually in plastic wrap for Pennsylvania Dutch authenticity.
10. Wrapped, pies will keep for up to 3 days, but I doubt they'll last that long.

allpurpose, cocoa, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, vanilla, unsalted butter, brown sugar, egg, filling, marshmallow fluff, vegetable shortening, vanilla, allpurpose, milk, powdered sugar

Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/chocolate-whoopie-pies/ (may not work)