2 c  Sugar
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 c  Shortening
1/2 ts Salt
2    Eggs
1/2 c  Cocoa
1 ts Vanilla
1 c  Buttermilk
4 c  Flour
1/2 c  Boiling water
2 ts Soda

Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs and vanilla and beat. Mix dry
ingrediants and add to sugar/shortening alternating with the water and
buttermilk. Drop on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 5-7 min. at 400-425
degrees. Cool.

Filling: 4 T flour 1 C milk

Cook on med. heat until thick, stirring constantly. Let cool.

1 C Crisco 1 3/4 C powered sugar 1/4 t salt 1 t vanilla

Cream and add 1T at a time to the cooled flour/milk mixture. Whip
until fluffy. Use this mixture as filling between 2 of the chocolate
cookies.

I know this all sounds disgusting, but it really is wonderful. Kids
love them, especially this 30 year old kid. My grandmother still
makes them for me, individually wraps them and freezes them for my
next visit.