Soft Ginger Cookies {filled with cream cheese frosting}

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup shortening
1 cup butter
3 cups sugar
3 eggs
3/4 cup molasses
6 cups flour
4 1/2 tsp. baking soda
4 tsp. ginger
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. salt

Directions:
Step 1: Cream butter and shortening together with the sugar.
Step 2: Add eggs one at a time then add molasses and stir well.
Step 3: In a separate bowl mix all the dry ingredients together.
Step 4: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet until both are mixed together well.
Step 5: Cover the dough and refrigerate for about an hour.
Step 6: Roll dough into small 1 inch balls then roll in sugar. Place 12 balls on baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. When the timer goes off take out and let cool in pan for 5 min. then take off and cool completely.

Frosting Ingredients:
4 ounces of cream cheese softened
1 stick of room temperature butter
3 to 3 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 to 2 tablespoons of milk

Directions:
Step 1: With and electric mixer cream together the room temperature butter and cream cheese, then add vanilla.
Step 2: Add one cup of sugar at a time to the butter cream cheese mixture, when it get a little to dry to mix add the milk. Mix on high until the frosting is fluffy.
Step 3: Spread frosting on the bottom side of one cookie, now sandwich the frosting by adding another cookie.

Bakers Notes: The frosting recipe is for a half batch of cookies.