Goldy Bear's Sweetheart Sandwich Cookies
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
36 cookies
ingredients
- 1⁄4 lb unsalted butter
- 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- whipping cream
directions
- FOR THE COOKIES --
- Cream the butter with the sugar in a large bowl until light.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla; set aside.
- Sift the cocoa, flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together.
- Stir the dry ingredients thoroughly into the butter mixture.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 or 3 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375F and butter 2 cookie sheets.
- Using a teaspoon measure, roll level teaspoons of the dough into balls and place them 2 inches apart on the sheets.
- Bake for 10 to 15 mins, until cookies are puffed and surfaces slightly dry and cracked.
- Cool on racks.
- FOR THE FILLING --
- Cream the butter until light.
- Beat in the vanilla and powdered sugar, adding whipping cream and continuing to beat until the consistency is like creamy frosting.
- When the cookies are complete cool, spread about 1/2 tablespoon of iflling on the bottom of one cookie, then top with the bottom side of another cookie.
- VARIATION --
- For half a batch of vanilla-filled and half a batch of peppermint-filled cookies, add 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract to half the filling. Tint the peppermint filling pink or green before filling half the sandwiches.
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