Valentines Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Ingredients
For Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups flour all purpose
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup Valentines sprinkles
For Frosting
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
- 4-5 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup Belfonte Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- pink food coloring (optional)
Directions
For Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl cream your butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add your vanilla extract, eggs and stir until well combined.
- Add your flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. Stir until just combined.
- Pour in about 3/4ths of your Valentines sprinkles (reserving the rest for the tops of your cookies) and stir in until evenly distributed.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop your cookie dough into 1-2 inch balls and place on your baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Dip or top each cookie with more Valentines sprinkles.
- Bake in the oven at 350 F for 8-10 minutes until edges start to brown.
- Remove from oven, use a round glass or cookie cutter to scoot around the edges of the cookies to make them round and thicker. Let cool.
For Frosting
- In a bowl of a mixer add your butter and whip on high until light and fluffy and lighter in color.
- Add your powdered sugar 1 cup at a time mixing in between each addition. Add pinch of salt and mix.
- Add your Belfonte Heavy Whipping Cream and Vanilla Extract and whip it up.
- Add a drop of pink food coloring and using a spatula gently mix it in.
- Add to a piping bag fitted with your tip of choice. (Or you could frost them with a spatula)
- Match your cookies with ones of the same size and pipe a swirl of frosting onto the back of your cookie and top with another one.
- Dip the edges of the cookies in your extra Valentines sprinkles.
- Serve, share and enjoy!!
Makes about 18–24 cookie sandwiches, depending on cookie size
