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Pumpkin Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Maple Cream Cheese Filling

November 6, 2018

Pumpkin Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Maple Cream Cheese Filling- The perfect fall cookie treat that you can whip up in around hour. Fun and yummy!

So I was on the news last night!!

It really was so weird that I got to see myself on TV. But it was really cool too.

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Filed Under: Cookies, Bars, and Candy, Pumpkin, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: cookie, cream cheese, cream cheese frosting, pumpkin, sandwich cookies

Chocolate Mint Chip Sandwich Cookies

December 9, 2014

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I’ve put in my time off requests for the holidays (and for our upcoming cruise in January)!! Once it was all signed off (by 4 diferent people) I almost danced around the office.

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I am taking Christmas week off for some ME time… lots of PJ wearing, garlic noodle making, You’ve Got Mail watching, with some scrapbooking in the mix. Damn, I really miss scrapbooking. I could have a sob fest about it right now, but I will soilder on and focus on how I get 2 whole days to myself (the others will be with Miss Autumn) to make a mess with pictures, washi tape, stamps, and such. Bliss.

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In the 9 days from when I leave work to return from the holidays I’m sure I’ll do some baking as well. Or plan on it and maybe I’ll  just scrapbook instead. I dunno. I’m trying to stay quite focused on that so that I can zen out while I watch Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan exchange witty emails back and forth while I work on our 2014 project life.

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I am thinking about making these babies again though. They are perfect. Minty. Chocoately. They scream winter to me. And there is plenty of minty frosting smack dab in btween 2 cookies. Aren’t cookie sandwiches the best?

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I have a funny story about making these cookies.

It involves a thief (Price) who snagged a cookie while they were cooling before I had put a generious amount of frosting between the paired off cookies. So when I was a nearly done with the sandwiching, I noticed I was off. I searched the counter. I recounted.  I looked on the dining table. A cookie was missing. I knew had made 13 pairs. And then I asked…

“Yeah, I took a cookie. Why?”

UGH!!! And that is why you must notify other thieves in your house when making sandwich cookies. ha!

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I’m starting to think that all cookies should come in pairs with frosting in between. The world needs more cookie sandwiches. Def.

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I brought they babies into work to share so I cut them up. They cut in half pretty easily as the cookies are delightfully soft, and yet dense to hold up to the frosting filling.

If you don’t feel like making sandwiches cookies then at least the cookies since they are so Christmasy good.

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What are you doing for the holidays? Any movie marahons? Crafting? Cooking and baking? Traveling? Stuffing your face with cookie sandwiches and spiked nog?

Chocolate Mint Chip Sandwich Cookies

Makes 12-13 Sandwich Cookies

Ingredients

For the Cookies

  • 2 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 Cup  unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 Cup sugar
  • 1 Cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (10-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Dark Chocolate & Mint Morsels

For the frosting

  • 1/2 Cup butter, at room temperature
  • 4 Cups of powered sugar
  • 10-12 drops green food coloring
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • 1-2 Tablespoons milk

Process

  1. To make the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper/ use a silpat.
  2. Wisk the flour, salt, baking soda, and cocoa powder in a bowl to combine. Set aside.
  3. Combine the butter and sugars in bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla extract to the sugar mixture and beat until combined.
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the bowl and mix until a dough as formed. Once the dough has combined add in the minty chocolate chips and continue to mix.
  5. Divide the dough in half. From each half, scoop out even sized cookies until you have made 12 or 13 cookies (24 or 26 total).
  6. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove cookie sheets from oven when the center of the cookie is still soft to the touch. Let cool and set up for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet prior to removing.
  7. While the cookies are baking, make the sandwich cookie filling by beating the butter until light in color and fluffy in texture. Add the powdered sugar in small amounts and beat until combined. Add the food coloring, and extract. Add a bit of milk until you have reached your desired consistency, which should be thick but spreadable.
  8. Once the cookies have cooled completely, put a big dollop or pipe the frosting on the underside of a cookie. Add another cookie to sandwich it off.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chocolate chips, chocolate cookies, cookies, cookies sandwiches, frosting, mint, mint chocolate chips, mint frosting, peppermint extract, sandwich cookies

Maple Walnut Whoopie Pies

September 21, 2013

Maple Walnut Whoopie Pies

You should totally make these for your dog walker when you leave your dog with her and her adorable family for 4 1/2 days and the idea is totally crushing you. Sure, you really need the vacation before you are cut off from flying and before a cute wiggly baby comes crashing into your heart. But the fact that he has NEVER been without either of you for even a day is freaking you out… A LOT.

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So that is what I did. I made these the morning of our flight so that our super amazing dog walker and her family would have something to enjoy while our pup ‘terrorized’ her life. Hello, middle of the night pee walks!!! In fact I got up so early (crazy lady) that the dog didn’t even want to get up when I checked on him. So I got to make these in peace while he slept another hour. Again, I’m nuts!

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Oh, you aren’t pregnant and crazy about leaving your dog? Then just make these for this weekend’s NASCAR race in New Hampshire since you can’t not have maple goodies while in New England. So you’re not a NASCAR fan and don’t follow along with my Sprint Cup Snacks? Then make these just because you deserve them.

You totally do.

These are light, spongy maple cookies that are studded with walnuts that sandwich a fluffy cream cheese frosting. Once you take a bite you will be transported right to the middle of the woods in New England with maple taps all around you. Kinda like a Klondike Bar experience.  Kinda. 

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Maple Walnut Whoopie Pies

Makes 13-15 small whoopie pies

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Filling

  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • 4 cups sifted glazing sugar OR confectioners’ sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Process

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease two baking sheets, or line them with parchment paper.
  2. For the cookies: Whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, and maple flavoring.
  4. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Scrap the bowl down between the addition of each egg.
  5. Add in the dry ingredients until the mixture is evenly moistened.
  6. Scrape the bowl again, then mix in the walnuts.
  7. Scoop by the tablespoonful to make 26-30 (even # amount!) cookies onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving 2″ of space between each cookie.
  8. Bake the cookies for 9 to 11 minutes, until the top springs back when lightly touched, and the edges are a light golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool completely on a rack before filling.
  9. For the filling: Place the cream cheese and half of the confectioners’ sugar in a large mixing bowl, and beat at slow speed until the mixture is smooth.
  10. Add the remaining sugar and the flavoring, and mix until the filling is a spreadable consistency.
  11. Place a tablespoon of filling on the flat face a cookie then top off with another cookie, flat face towards the filling.

Slightly adapted from King Arthur

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cookies, cream cheese, maple, maple flavoring, maple syrup, maple walnut whoopie pies, NASCAR, New Hampshire International Speedway, sandwich cookies, sprint cup snacks, walnut, whoopie pies

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