Chocolate sandwich cookies with three filling

18 Cookies

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
6tablespoonsButter or margarine
½cupSugar
cupLight brown sugar, packed
1teaspoonVanilla extract
2eachesEgg whites
1⅓cupFlour
cupCocoa
½teaspoonSalt
¼teaspoonBaking soda
2tablespoonsButter or margarine
¼cupPowdered sugar
¾cupPowdered sugar
¼cupCocoa
teaspoonMilk
2tablespoonsButter or margarine
¼cupPowdered sugar
teaspoonFresh lemon peel, grated
¾cupPowdered sugar
teaspoonMilk
2tablespoonsButter or margarine
¼cupPowdered sugar
¾cupPowdered sugar
teaspoonMilk
2teaspoonsStrawberry all-fruit spread
Several drops red food color

Directions

COOKIES

CHOCOLATE FILLING

LEMON FILLING

STRAWBERRY FILLING

Preheat oven to 350F.

Cookies: In bowl, beat butter, sugars and vanilla until well blended.

Add egg whites; beat well.

Stir together flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda; add to sugar mixture, beating until well-blended. Refrigerate dough about 1 hr. or until firm enough to handle.

Grease or spray cookie sheet. Shape dough into 1" balls. Place on cookie sheet. Using fingers, flatten each ball into a 2" circle. Bake for 7 mins. or until set. Cool 1 min., remove to wire rack. Cool completely.

Using half of the cookies, spread about 1½ t. of desired flavored filling on each cookie. Top with remaining cookies.

Fillings: In small bowl, beat butter and ¼ c. sugar until well bleneded. Gradually and other ingredients until well blended and of desired consistency. Adjust amount of milk if needed. Each makes about ⅔ cup.

Source: Hagerstown Herald-Mail; Hagerstown, MD From: Rammots