Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies – Cookies and Cups
Delicate, candy Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies are the last word vacation cookie! Buttery and smooth cookies with a sugar crunch on high full of creamy frosting!
Ensure that to strive my recipe for Soft Gingerbread Cookies too!
This recipe is made in partnership with my pals over at Imperial Sugar. Discover the FULL RECIPE HERE.
This festive tackle a traditional smooth gingerbread cookie is my tackle the favored cookie bought at Dealer Joe’s yearly on the holidays! Delicate gingerbread is my favourite sort of gingerbread. After all I really like these cute little gingerbread males, however they by no means appear to be as scrumptious as I would like them to be. A smooth gingerbread cookie is lots like a snickerdoodle with a bit extra spice! And naturally you’ve that wealthy, molasses taste that may be a should in gingerbread!
Why not?? Why have one cookie when you’ll be able to have two…plus the addition of creamy, candy filling on the within. They’re principally an entire dessert! The buttercream pairs superbly with the spiced gingerbread cookie. You would even use a scrumptious cream cheese frosting as effectively, that will be such an ideal pairing! These are a enjoyable option to change up your regular Christmas Cookies.
Substances
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- Butter at room temperature
- Granulated sugar
- 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
- Molasses
- Baking soda
- Kosher salt
- Floor ginger
- Floor cinnamon
- Floor cloves
- All goal flour
- Coarse Turbinado sugar
- Filling
- Butter at room temperature
- Powdered sugar
- Milk
Steps
- For the cookies: preheat the oven to 350°F. Line your baking sheet with parchment paper and put aside.
- Within the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine the butter and sugar collectively for two minutes on medium pace. Add within the molasses and blend till included.
- Then combine in egg plus extra yolk, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and cloves till easy, scraping the edges of the bowl as neeeded to verify all the pieces is mixed.
- Flip the mixer to low and add in flour till dough comes collectively.
- Pour the turbinado sugar right into a small bowl and put aside.
- Utilizing a small cookie scoop portion out the dough and roll into balls. Dip half of the dough ball into the turbinado sugar and place them onto your ready baking sheet 2 inches aside. You solely need the highest of the cookies to be coated with the coarse sugar as a result of you make sandwiches. You definitely may coat the entire cookie within the turbinado sugar if you need, nevertheless it’s not vital.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes till the perimeters are golden and funky fully earlier than making your sandwiches.
- For the filling: That is only a easy buttercream recipe. Combine all of the filling elements till creamy after which pipe onto the underside of half the cookies. Regulate the creaminess of the filling by including a tablespoon roughly of milk if wanted. You may unfold the frosting as effectively, I simply discover piping the frosting is faster and fewer messy. You are able to do this simply with a piping bag or a zip-top bag with the nook snipped off.
- Press the remaining cookies on high of the filling creating sandwiches.
The important thing to creating your gingerbread smooth is the ratio of elements. Including an egg yolk together with a full egg makes the cookies chewy and smooth. The quantity of molasses issues paired with the right quantities of sugar and flour.
That is easy and is nice for this recipe in addition to all cookie recipes!
- Use a cookie scoop! That is a simple method to make sure that your cookies are all the identical dimension!
- Weigh the cookie dough. For those who don’t have a cookie scoop, you’ll be able to weigh the dough to verify they’re all the identical dimension.
- For these cookies, rolling the dough into uniform balls ensures that they’ll bake evenly.
- Ensure that all of your elements are combined effectively. For those who don’t combine effectively you may get pockets of butter or sugar inflicting the cookie to bake erratically and spreading.
- As quickly because the cookies come out of the oven, in the event you discover any are misshapen, use you spatula to type them again into the right form. As soon as they cool this received’t work, so do that asap!
Variations:
- Use cream cheese frosting as an alternative of buttercream! That may be a scrumptious combo!
- Add in a teaspoon of floor cinnamon to the frosting for a cinnamon buttercream filling!
- Coat the filling edges with some mini chocolate chips, coconut or sprinkles for a festive and fairly contact!
Retailer these chewy ginger sandwich cookies hermetic at room temperature. It’s also possible to freeze these for as much as 30 days hermetic!
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