Goldy Bear's Sweetheart Sandwich Cookies

"Recipe from Diane Mott Davidson's culinary mystery Dying for Chocolate."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
36 cookies
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ingredients

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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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