Jack O Lantern Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Ingredients
For Cookies:
- 1 cup of butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Orange food coloring
For Chocolate Filling:
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
For Cookies:
- In a large bowl add your butter and sugars and beat until combined. Next, add your eggs and vanilla and beat again.
- Once your wet ingredients are combined, add your dry ingredients and mix until dough forms. Add your orange food coloring and food until evenly distributed.
- Let your cookie dough chill for about 30 minutes to an hour to firm up so you can roll it out.
- Roll your cookie dough out and cut out cute pumpkin shapes and Jack o lantern faces. Make sure you cut faces out faces on half of the cookies. Let chill in the freezer for 15 minutes then bake in the oven for around 10-12 minutes. Let them cool.
For Ganache:
- Measure your heavy cream in a glass measuring cup and heat in the microwave was about 30-60 seconds.
- In a small bowl add your chocolate chips and slowly pour your hot heavy cream on top.
- Let set for a couple of minutes and stir until combined. This will be your filling.
Assemble:
- Once your cookies and ganache have cooled down you are ready to assemble. On your cookie with the face spread a spoonful of chocolate ganache. Sandwich your other cookie on top. Do this with the rest of your cookies. Enjoy!