Sandwich Cream Cookies

5 from 18 votes

These easy Sandwich Cream Cookies are delicious light cookies filled with sweet cream. Easy to make with simple ingredients in an array of colors.

Prep Time20

Cook Time10

Course: Cookies

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 221kcal

Author: Raquel Pineira

Ingredients

2 ¾ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup butter softened
1 ½ cups sugar
1 egg
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
food coloring pink, blue, yellow and green

Cream Filling Recipe

2 sticks butter (1 cup)
6 cups of powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350° and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
In a larger bowl, beat the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix to combine.
Add in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients slowly, about 1 cup at a time. Beat using a hand mixer to mix. Divide the dough into 4 bowls, add about 2-3 drops of the food coloring to each one, 2-3 drops of pink in one bowl, 2-3 drops of blue in another bowl etc.
I used clean beaters and used the hand mixer once again to combine the cookie dough with the food coloring. Just make sure to wash them each time before mixing each color.
Scoop about 1 teaspoon of dough and roll into a ball and place on the cookie sheet, leaving about 1 ½ inches apart from each dough ball.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden brown. Let them cool for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
While the cookies cool make the buttercream frosting. In a separate mixing bowl add 2 sticks of butter and 3 cups of powdered sugar and beat together using a hand mixer. Add the other 3 cups of powdered sugar and mix again. Add in the vanilla extract and beat until it’s a pale color and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
8. Once the cookies are completely cool add the butter cream to a zip lock bag and cut a small piece of the tip off, pipe the buttercream on the bottom of one cookie and then take another cookie and place on top and slightly press down so it sticks and makes a sandwich. Repeat with all the other colors of cookies and then serve and enjoy!

Notes

Use room temperature butter.

When mixing, be sure to scrape sides of the bowl often with a rubber spatula

You can use any colors you’d like! And as many colors as well.

If the buttercream is too dry you can add a splash of water until it becomes the texture you need.

Clean the beaters or your electric mixer after each time you mix the colors so you don’t mix and change the colors up.

You may need to add more drops of food coloring to the dough to get your desired color.

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