Twelve Days of Baking - Day 4

So I had big plans to knock out several of my 12 holiday recipes this weekend. That way I only had to do the blog during the week, but here it is, getting late on Sunday night, and I've only made two batches of cookies this entire weekend. Hmmm. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the week goes.

For today's recipe, I baked some sandwich cookies. I know they don't look very impressive. They're not very festive or colorful or in a cute Christmassy shape, but the filling is made with browned butter, and that makes for a flavor explosion! I'm guessing the flavors will get even better as they sit. 

They're easy to make. Here's the recipe. It also comes from my Taste of Home Cookies cookbook.

Sweet Sandwich Cookies

Cookie:
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg yolk
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt

Browned Butter Filling:
2 tbsp butter
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
4-5 tsp milk

Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk. Combine flour and salt. Gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and chill for 20 minutes.

Shape into 1" balls. Place on baking sheets and flatten with the bottom of a glass. Bake ate 325 degrees for 8-10 minutes Cool.

For the filling, heat butter in a saucepan over medium heat until golden brown. Remove from the heat and stir in powdered sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve spreading consistency. Sandwich cookies together with the filling. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Notes: The original recipe says to flatten the cookies with a fork in a criss-cross pattern. To me, that is what you do with a peanut butter cookie, so that's why I used a glass instead. I had to dip it in a little flour or it would stick to the cookies. Also, I didn't think the filling recipe looked like it would make enough for my taste, so I doubled it, because when it comes to fillings, more is always better. Right?