Simple Christmas Cookie Sandwich Recipe

This Xmas cookie recipe is a must-try, particularly should you’re a fan of egg nog. 

I’m dusting off my baking abilities this week with a Christmas cookie recipe that screams vacation vibes. It’s a gingerbread cookie sandwich with selfmade egg nog icing sandwiches in between. A Christmas cookie sandwich!

This recipe is tremendous simple to make and tastes amazingly wealthy (in a great way). Plus, they’re so fairly, you’ll be able to wrap them up as presents for mates, household, or the hostess of that upcoming vacation occasion you’re headed to.

These cookie sandwiches match proper into the ‘simple Christmas cookies for a cookie change’ class. Proper? Particularly if you find yourself utilizing the gingerbread cookie hack I linked under. Talking of which, let’s bounce in. First, you’re going to want the cookies!

Tremendous Simple Gingerbread Cookies

You need to use your fave gingerbread recipe for the cookie OR do that easy gingerbread cookie hack utilizing store-bought sugar cookie dough and some different components. I like a superb Christmas cookie hack. What about you?

We went with the latter choice and it was really easy and the cookies had been severely scrumptious! A bit softer than your typical gingerbread, which is form of good for making cookie sandwiches.

Once I was virtually completed making these, I noticed that utilizing Christmas cookie cutters earlier than baking the gingerbread would have been actually cute. I don’t thoughts the standard look of those completed sandwiches, however one other form would have been cool too. Needed to say that, in case that appeals to you.

Now that you’ve got the gingerbread beneath management, you’re going to want to make the Christmas cookie icing. And this one has ‘holidaze’ written throughout it – there’s egg nog combined in!

Learn how to Make Egg Nog Icing

Christmas cookie icing like this egg nog icing tastes similar to the vacations! For those who’re an egg nog lover, you must do that one. Right here’s are the components you’ll want:

• 8 tablespoons of softened butter
• 3/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons of egg nog

1. Upon getting every part above, mix the components above utilizing a hand mixer till totally combined. Refrigerate till agency.

2. Add to a piping bag and pipe onto the middle of a cookie.

3. Then add one other cookie on prime to create the sandwich. And roll the surface with crushed sweet cane. That’s it!

Learn how to Crush Sweet Canes or Peppermints

To complete up this Christmas cookie recipe, you’re going to want some teeny tiny items of sweet cane or peppermint sweet. So I believed I might share how I crush mine up tremendous shortly and simply for initiatives like these.

For those who’re internet hosting a cookie change or a Christmas cookie making occasion, it’s good to have little sweet cane or peppermint items crushed up for sugar cookie adorning too.

So right here’s what I do…Throw a handful of peppermint candies right into a plastic baggie. Or should you’re utilizing sweet canes, break them into a couple of items and put them in a plastic baggie. Seal. *As an alternative choice, you should utilize reusable baggies as an alternative, just like the Stasher baggage that I exploit for every part. 

Then, utilizing a metallic measuring cup or a heavy metallic spoon hit the sweet to interrupt it up, whereas holding it contained within the bag. When it’s crushed as much as your liking, pour the sweet items right into a bowl and it’s prepared to make use of – for cookie sandwich adorning like these or one thing else. Appears nice sprinkled over a selfmade cake too, btw.

What else are you able to make with egg nog?

Have left over egg nog after making the egg nog icing for these festive cookie sandwiches? Strive my egg nog popsicles for an surprising egg nog dessert on a stick!

Extra Christmas Cookie Recipes

• For those who favored this Xmas cookie recipe, strive these vacation meringues. They’re made with blood oranges and oh-so-pretty. One other stable addition for a Christmas cookie change, though they’re not technically cookies.
• I even have marbled matcha sugar cookies recipe (and raspberry sugar cookies too), which really feel festive for the vacations.
• And final however not least, these egg nog gingersnap sandwiches scream simple Xmas cookies to me.

Are you baking any vacation cookies this season? What recipes are your faves? And (perhaps) extra importantly… Do you want egg nog?!