34. Cookie Sandwiches
You hungry? I’m hungry. And I have leftover icing. Let’s make cookie sandwiches.
I LOVE making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, they’re a classic for a reason. They’re quick, they’re easy, and they are DELICIOUS. I don’t know if there’s anything more moreish than a good chocolate chip cookie. Did you know that they were a completely happy accident? Someone was trying to make chocolate cookies (or cake, I forget which) and had run out of cocoa powder, so they decided to use chopped up chunks of chocolate, because they would melt and combine with the rest of the dough right? WRONG. The chocolate chip was born. Happy accidents exist!
Whilst cookies are great entirely on their own (don’t feel pressured to make the icing too, just eat these on their own for something just as yummy!), paired with Oreo buttercream icing to make a cookie sandwich? Amazing. Hits that sweet tooth so hard the dentist might suggest braces.
Makes 30 cookies or 15 sandwiches
Ingredients
For the cookies
150g (5.25oz) butter
80g (2.75oz) golden caster sugar
80g (2.75oz) light brown sugar
1 egg
200g (7oz) plain flour
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
150g (5.25oz) chocolate chips
For the icing
400g (14oz) icing sugar
200g (7oz) butter
6 Oreos
Method
Preheat the oven to 190C and line two baking trays with baking paper (You need two. Mine merged. I should know better by now.)
Cream together the butter and sugars for the cookies. Add in the egg, flour, salt and baking powder and combine.
Mix in the vanilla and chocolate chips.
Roll a teaspoon worth of dough into a ball at a time, place on the baking tray and slightly flatten. (If you’re slightly more anal, like me, use 22g of dough for each cookie)
Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges start to go golden, then take out and leave to cool. (OR EAT THEM WARM BECAUSE THEY’RE TOO GOOD TO WAIT)
Cream your butter, then add in the icing sugar a bit at a time, so it won’t go everywhere. If it doesn’t quite all combine, add in a teaspoon of milk or water.
In a ziploc bag or similar, bash your Oreos to a fine crumb, then add in to your buttercream icing.
Take a cooled cookie, and cover the flat side with icing, potentially using a piping bag with a pretty nozzle.
Add another cookie on top for an excellent sandwich.
ENJOY!
