Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are soft, chewy, sugary chocolate cookies with a layer of decadent chocolate frosting in between. It’s a chocolate lover’s dream! After you make the frosting for these sandwich cookies, try the brownie frosting on your next batch of brownies!
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
If you love brownies, you will love these Brownie Sandwich cookies. Why am I talking about brownies? Because eating this cookie is like eating frosted brownies in cookie form. And, if you are a chocolate lover, these cookies will not disappoint! If you love the flavor combination of chocolate and peanut butter, I also have Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies.
Sandwich Cookies Ingredients
There are two parts to this recipe–the chocolate cookies and the filling.
Room Temperature Ingredients: Using room temperature ingredients (specifically butter and eggs) will help you get the best results when baking these cookies (and other recipes that call for room temperature ingredients). Butter is at room temperature at 65°F. Don’t put it in the microwave to soften it; simply cut it up into small pieces and let it sit out if you forgot to take it out of the refrigerator.
Cocoa Powder: I used unsweetened cocoa powder in the cookies and frosting. You could also use Dutch-process cocoa for a darker chocolate cookie and frosting.
Sugar: Granulated sugar is used in the cookies as well as for rolling the cookie dough.
Honey: Adding honey to the frosting ingredients might throw you off. However, don’t leave it out; it really does something magical to the frosting.
Do I Have to Chill the Dough?
You may notice that you need to chill the dough for about an hour. Of course, you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, but chilling the dough does make a difference. When you chill cookie dough, it solidifies the fat. Then, when you are ready to bake the cookies, the chilled dough takes longer to melt and remains solid longer, meaning the cookies spread less.
Chilling dough also gives you more flavorful cookies. The dry ingredients have time to soak up the wet ingredients, allowing them all to come together. Baking will be more even as well.
Can I Make the Cookies without the Frosting?
Sure! If you are just craving sugary chocolate cookies, you don’t have to make them into sandwich cookies. You will get about 16 individual cookies made from this recipe.
Can I Make the Cookie Dough Ahead of Time?
Yes! This dough can be made and frozen to bake at a later time. To freeze the dough, place the balls of dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for 1-2 hours, or until the dough balls are completely frozen. Once frozen, transfer the dough to freezer-safe zipper bags. When ready to bake, simply bake as many of the cookies as you need from frozen. You may need to increase the baking time by 1-2 minutes.
