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red velvet cookie sandwiches

Red Velvet Cookie Sandwiches

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Servings: 12 cookie sandwiches
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

For the Cookies
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/3 cup cocoa powder
  • 6-10 drops red food colour to preference
  • 1.75 cups flour
For the Icing
  • 3.5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste can sub vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup red melting wafers to decorate with drizzle optional!

Method
 

  1. Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees F and grabbing all of your ingredients and parchment lined baking tray.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs. Mix well.
  3. Sift in the cocoa powder and continue mixing slowly until we’ll combined.
  4. Add the red food colour until you start to reach desired colour, but remember this colour will soften as you add flour!
  5. Combine the salt, baking soda and flour and gradually add to wet mixture until we’ll combined.
  6. Scoop out 2 tbsp sized balls of cookie dough, roll with your hands into a smooth ball, place on parchment, then flatten with the bottom of a glass cup or your palm. These cookies don’t spread a ton so flatten half way to desire size.
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Use a wide mouth cup to bring the cookies back to a perfectly round shape. Stick wide mouth over cookie while on parchment sheet and move around in circular direction.
  8. Combine all icing ingredients in electric mixer and mix well on medium speed until combined. Add some milk if it is too thick or some icing sugar if too thin.
  9. Once the cookies have cooled completely pipe the icing sugar onto the bottom part of the cookie and place another on top. I put the icing in a freezer size ziploc and cut the tip off to make piping easier.
  10. Melt red melting wafers and then drizzle on top of cookie. Optional and can use any chocolate you like :)
  11. Recipe makes 6 sandwiches (12 cookies total).