Need a delicious Cookie recipe, My family's favorite.

I have made this recipe 4 times now and it just seems to be better each time. Each time I make it I improve on the time before. I think now my adjustments have perfected the recipe and made these cookies almost as good as in the store bought version.

The cookies referred to are " Oatmeal Whoopie Pies" or "Li'l Debbie cookies"


4 cups packed Brown sugar
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine
4 eggs
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
5 cups flour
4 cups of oatmeal *(i use quick oats and I grind the oats fine down to an oatmeal flour like consistancy, you can still see that it is oats.)
6 Tbsp Boiling Water
4 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla

Cream filling:
4 Tbsp flour
4 Tbsp milk
1 1/2 cups of Crisco
2 cups of powdered sugar
2 egg whites whipped and beaten well

Mix all of the cookie ingredients in a mixer and cream sugar and butter and eggs together. Then gradually add salt, cinnamon, baking powder and flour and oatmeal. I transfer the dough to a big bowl and use a wooden spoon or large scrapper to mix and fold in the flour and oats into the cream mixture. Add the vanilla and in a separate mixing cup put the 4 tsp (1 Tbsp and 1 tsp) in and add your 6 Tbsp of boiling water. Then after everything is mixed poor the hot baking soda mixture over the dough and stir till everything is wet and mixed thoroughly. * Instead of scooping the mixture out onto cookie sheets, I flour my counter surface and roll out a portion of dough and cut cookies out like biscuits. I have found that it makes the cookie look more like the original and it stretches the amount made. By doing this I get another dozen out of the recipe. Now it depends on how flat you roll them and what size cutter you use. I use a 3 in cookie cutter and roll the dough out about 1/4 to 1/3 inches thick. If you roll them to thin they will be crunchy and not soft. Bake them in a 350 degree oven for 12 minutes.

Cream filling:

Whip 2 egg whites in a mixer or with a hand held mixer and set aside. In a separate bowl add all other ingredients and mix well. Combine both mixtures in a mixer and mix thoroughly. Should be thick and creamy looking. If it looks to wet from the milk add a 1/2 cup at a time of powder sugar.
* since I make at least a dozen more by rolling the dough out, I double the filling recipe. After all who doesn't like extra filling. (Even when I made them the orginal way I still ran out of filling.)
Spread between two cookies and enjoy. These cookies are so tasty you just have to share them with everyone.