Description
Homemade chocolate sandwich cookies are rustic, delicious, and so much better than store bought; especially when they’re made with love. Pour yourself a tall drink of milk to dunk these classic cookies!
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies
- 1 and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup high quality cocoa powder (I like Guittard or Hershey Dark)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup packed medium brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Filling
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 ounce softened cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 and 3/4 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Set your oven to heat to 350 degrees F and move an oven rack to the middle position. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium size mixing bowl and set aside.
- Whip butter on high until creamy, (about a minute) then whip in the sugars, egg and vanilla until fully combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients into the butter/sugar mixture, scraping the sides and bottom to ensure the dough is mixed thoroughly. It will be a bit clumpy.
- Roll small balls of dough about an inch in size and place on a non-stick cookie sheet (or on parchment paper placed on a regular baking sheet) and bake for 8 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes before moving to a cooling rack. Repeat with remaining dough.
- While cookies are baking, whip up the filling by beating the butter, shortening, cream cheese and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar. Spread a little filling onto the bottom half of cookies with a knife and press another cookie on top. Dust with powdered sugar if desired and serve with milk.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 cookies
- Calories: 364
- Sugar: 35.8 g
- Sodium: 143 mg
- Fat: 19 g
- Saturated Fat: 11.6 g
- Fiber: 1.4 g
- Protein: 2.7 g
- Cholesterol: 53 mg