Sweetheart Sandwich Cookies

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Title: Sweetheart Sandwich Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 36 servings

1/4 lb Unsalted butter
1 1/4 c Sugar
2 lg Eggs
1 ts Vanilla extract
1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa
2 c Flour
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Baking soda
Filling:
4 tb Unsalted butter
1 ts Vanilla extract
4 c Confectioner's sugar
Whipping cream

Recipe by: Diane Mott Davidson. The Cereal Murders Preparation Time: 1:00
To make 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.

To make 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.
Makes about 3 dozen sandwiches.
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. NOTES
: A Goldy Bear mystery set in Aspen, Colorado. A pair of fudgelike cookies
separated by a slide of buttercream filling. "Goldy's Rx for stress - take
chocolate and call me when it's over"

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