Chocolate Candy Cane Sandwich Cookies



Ingredients:

for the cookies:
1 egg, at room temperature
1 loving cup flour
1 loving cup low-cal brownish sugar
1/2 loving cup butter, at room temperature
3/4 loving cup cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

for the cream filling:
1/2 loving cup milk
1/2 loving cup confectioners sugar
1/2 loving cup mutual depression temperature butter
1/4 loving cup crushed candy canes
two 1/2 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
1/4 teaspoon salt


Directions:
For the cookies:
Line three cookie sheets alongside parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350. Cream together the butter together with saccharide inwards a large bowl. Add the egg. Mix thoroughly. Whisk together the dry out ingredients. Turn the mixer to depression together with slow add together the dry out ingredients. Mix until a thick dough forms. Sprinkle a clean, apartment surface alongside flour*. Roll the dough out until 1/8 inch thick, taking attention to gyre exclusively inwards ane direction. Cut alongside cookie cutters. Place two inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake for 8 minutes. Carefully take away from the pan to cool on wire racks.

For the filling:
In a little pan, mix flour alongside milk together with boil until thick. Cool. Beat until fluffy together with add together other ingredients (except for the candy cane bits) ane at a time, beating good afterwards each addition. Fold inwards the candy cane bits. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Spread the filling on the underside of one-half of the cookies. Top alongside the remaining cookies.


*Or gyre the dough out betwixt two sheets of parchment paper.

Tip: Crush candy canes yesteryear placing them inwards a resealable purse together with trounce them alongside a rolling pivot against a difficult surface.


Yield: near 1 dozen cookies

My thoughts:
I know I am inwards the minority hither but I actually don't similar Trader Joe's. I've only never had a positive sense at that topographic point together with then I stopped going. That said, this fourth dimension of year, I am almost tempted to become dorsum to essay the Peppermint JoJo's everyone is raving about. Almost tempted. Luckily I know how to bake together with tin brand a cookie that is much meliorate than whatever packaged cookie could promise to be. I made a unproblematic chocolate wafer that wasn't every bit good sugariness together with a sweet, creamy, no shortening allowed minty filling alongside crushed candy canes folded in. The perfect vacation treat!

Note: If yous alive inwards a rattling warm climate (indoor temperature over 85) together with create non conception to consume the cookies the same solar daytime yous brand them, yous may take refrigerate them overnight. Otherwise, shop inwards an air tight container at room temperature.

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