Faux-reos

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 (18 1/4 ounce) boxes devil's food cake mix
• 1 1/2 cups shortening
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ounces cream cheese
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 set oven racks for upper third and middle third of oven. preheat oven to 350 degrees f (180 degrees c).
• 2 combine all cookie ingredients and mix well. batter will be thick.
• 3 roll dough into balls the size of nickels; you should have 48 balls. place on two greased cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart. bake for 8 to 10 minutes, switching sheets up for down, and rotating back to front, halfway through.
• 4 cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to cooling racks until completely cool.
• 5 meanwhile, beat together all filling ingredients. if using a stand or hand mixer, start very slowly, or sugar will spray all over the room! when blended, transfer to a gallon-size ziptop bag and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
• 6 when cookies are cool and filling has set up slightly, cut off a corner of the ziptop bag and, using it like a pastry bag, pipe filling onto the bottoms of half of the cookies. stick bottom-to-bottom with another, unfrosted cookie.