Oatmeal Cream Pies

I had never had a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie until about a year ago.
My boyfriend bought a box and I have to say they were so addictive I think we ate the whole box in less then 24 hours. Thinking about that makes me feel ill. When you are in it though, and those cream pies are sitting on the table calling your name, it's hard to resist.
I decided I would make Oatmeal Cream Pies for him and they are all over the baking blog world.
I ended up using the recipe from sallysbakingaddiction because it was easy and I didn't need to use gelatin and I had the ingredients. I love oatmeal cookies so I knew that whatever happened they would be wonderful. Tt was just a question of how close they would be to the original Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies and how much my boyfriend would like them.

Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies

Cookies
1 & 1/4 cup margarine
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp cooking molasses
1 & 1/2 cups AP flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
3 cups quick oats


Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
cream together butter and sugars until smooth
add egg, vanilla, molasses and continue to blend together.
in another bowl add in all the dry ingredients and lightly mix.
slowly add the dry ingredients into the other ingredients and continue to mix. You may have to end up mixing with a wooden spoon as the mixture will be thick.
scoop out round amounts about 2-3 tbsp in size and place on cookie sheets. (I made some larger ones and some smaller only 1 tbsp in size)
the cookies will spread out so leave enough room between each cookie.
bake for about 10 minutes until cookies are golden on the edges.

allow to cool on the cookie sheets for a couple minutes then allow to cool completely on wire racks.

Once cookies are completely cool make the cream filling:
3/4 cup margarine
3 cups powdered sugar
3 tbsp whipping cream
1 & 1/2 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

beat butter until creamy. add the sugar and mix together. pour in the cream and vanilla and beat until fluffy. add a pinch of salt or more if desired. Add more sugar or cream depending on how thick or thin you would like the filling to be. Spread filling on bottom of one cookie and sandwich with another.

These cookies were really good. I enjoyed them alot and so did my boyfriend.
However, hey are not like Little Debbie's, I'm not sure if it would even be possible to mimic the texture and flavour of those little plastic wrapped creme pies. bravetart says her recipe is the closest to them, so I'm going to have to try them out sometime!
I still have Cream Filling let over though, I wonder what I should put that filling on or in...hmm..