Whoppie Pies

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup crisco
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp.salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 tsp.vanilla
• 1 cup boiling water
• 4 cups sifted flour

Directions

Cream crisco and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add milk and dry ingredients; EXCEPT baking soda, alternately. Add baking soda mixed with the hot water LAST. Then add vanilla. Mix well.
Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Make sure you leave 2" between each cookie. Bake at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes.