Recipe Ingredients
Cookie
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup Land O Lakes® Butter
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 cups real semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 Land O Lakes® Eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Filling
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup Land O Lakes® Butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 to 4 tablespoons milk
Recipe Directions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Combine brown sugar, 3/4 cup butter and water in heavy 3-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 3-4 minutes, until butter is melted. Add chocolate chips; cook, stirring constantly, 1-2 minutes, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat. Beat in 1 egg at a time, until mixture is smooth. Stir in all remaining cookie ingredients.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 6-8 minutes or until set. Let stand 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
- Combine all filling ingredients except milk in mixer bowl. Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often and gradually adding enough milk for desired spreading consistency.
- Spread about 2 teaspoons frosting onto flat-side of one cookie; top with second cookie, flat-side down. Squeeze together gently. Repeat with remaining cookies.
- VARIATION: Chocolate Mint Sandwich Cookies. Prepare cookies as directed above. Substitute 1/8 teaspoon peppermint or mint extract for vanilla in filling.
