Oatmeal Creme Pies

This is a really exciting post for those of you who begged your mom to buy you Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies when you were a kid.  These are almost a complete replica! I ate two for lunch. I'm going for a walk this afternoon. So good! I adapted them from a recipe on Shugary Sweets.

• 1 cup margarine (no substitutes!!!)
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 Tablespoon molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (I heaped it a bit as I LOVE cinnamon!)
• 1 1/2 cup quick oats
• 1 1/2 cup flour

Combine margarine and sugars. Add molasses, vanilla, and eggs. Next the salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Add flour and then quick oats. Drop by tablespoons on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. (If you have a baking stone you can just drop them directly on the stone) I know these cookies look small but they spread quite a bit. Bake at 375 for about 8-9 minutes. (The original recipe called for 350 for 8-10 minutes. My oven works way better at 375 so that is what I use but us whatever works well for your oven and cookies!) Cool however you normall cool cookies, I always put mine on a paper towel. (I like to think it absorbs some calories out of the cookies as they do wick away some oil!) Once they are cool you can frost them!

• 1 1/2 jars of marshmallow fluff/creme. (About 10-11 ounces)
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 teaspoon butter flavoring (you can find this at Meijer by the spices and other extracts)
• 2/3 cup powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons HOT water
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Start by heating up the water to very hot and then add the salt and dissolve the salt. Beat marshmallow fluff/creme with the shortening and butter flavoring. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Add salt water. Beat until well combined.

Frost downside of cookie and add another downside of cookie on top of frosting. I store mine in the refridgerator as they keep longer and taste really good cold. These are very soft cookies so I layered wax paper between layers of cookies. I was able to make 26 cookie pies. Try these today!!! You cannot live another day without these!