Ginger Sandwich Cookies With Lemon Filling Food

GINGER SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Place the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in a sifter and sift into a bowl. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the egg. Then, stir in the molasses.
• Add the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture.
• Shape the dough into 1-inch sized balls, rolling them into the granulated sugar.
• Place the cookies a couple of inches apart onto the lined baking sheet, flattening slightly.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes, letting them cool before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixture on medium speed until the butter is light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. (You can also use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment.)
• Add in the almond extract and salt.
• Add in the confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time. Once all the sugar is added, mix on high for 2-3 minutes.
• Once fully combined, gently fold the marshmallow creme into the frosting by hand. This can be used immediately or refrigerated until ready to use.
• When ready to use, spread the filling on the bottoms of half the cookies and top with the remaining cookies.

GINGER COOKIE SANDWICHES WITH LEMON MASCARPONE

Steps:

• To make the cookies, put the butter, sugars, treacle, egg and vanilla in a large bowl and mix together with an electric whisk until smooth and combined. In a separate bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients except the demerara. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix until a very sticky dough is formed. Cover with cling film and chill for at least 4 hrs.
• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line two baking trays with baking parchment. Roll the cookie dough into balls, about a tablespoon in size, then roll in the demerara sugar. Place on the lined trays, leaving about 2.5cm space between cookies.
• Bake for about 14 mins or until just lightly browned around the edges, swapping the trays over halfway through cooking. Allow to cool on the trays for 10 mins before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• To make the filling, beat together the mascarpone and lemon curd in a bowl until smooth and creamy. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a plain round piping tip. Pipe a layer of the cream onto the base of half the cookies and sandwich together with the other half. Will keep for 3-4 days in a sealed container in the fridge - the texture will turn soft and cakey (this is no bad thing).

LEMON SANDWICH COOKIES (W/ LEMON CREAM CHEESE FILLING)

Steps:

• To make cookies, preheat oven to 350°F
• In a large bowl using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter, icing sugar, lemon zest, and salt until combined.
• With mixer on low, add flour (dough will be stiff); finish mixing with a wooden spoon.
• Turn dough out onto a piece of plastic wrap; pat into a disk about 1/2 inch (1 cm) thick.
• Wrap and chill until firm, about 1 hour (and up to 3 days).
• Unwrap dough; place on a lightly floured piece of parchment or waxed paper.
• With a lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough about 1/8 inch (3 mm) thick. (If dough cracks, let it warm up slightly).
• Cut out cookies with a 1 1/2 inch (4 cm) round cutter.
• (Re-roll scraps once, chilling if too soft).
• Place 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart on two baking sheets; sprinkle with granulated sugar.
• Bake until barely beginning to brown, 15-20 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool.
• For the filling, in a small bowl, mix cream cheese and zest until smooth.
• Gradually add 1 cup of icing sugar, mixing until smooth.
• Mix in remaining sugar as necessary to create a firm but spreadable filling.
• To form the sandwiches, place about 1 teaspoon filling between two cookies, sugared sides facing out; squeeze gently.

LEMON SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter, confectioners' sugar, lemon zest, and salt until combined. With mixer on low, add flour (dough will still be stiff); finish mixing with a wooden spoon.
• Turn dough out onto a piece of plastic wrap, pat into a disk about 1/2 inch thick. Wrap, and chill until firm, about 1 hour (and up to 3 days).
• Unwrap dough; place on a lightly floured piece of parchment or waxed paper. With a lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough about 1/8 inch thick (if dough cracks, let it warm up slightly).
• Cut out cookies with a 1 1/2-inch round cutter (reroll scraps once, chilling of too soft). Place 1 inch apart on two baking sheets; sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake until barely beginning to brown, 15 to 20 minutes; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Form sandwiches: Place about 1 teaspoon Creamy Lemon Filling between two cookies, sugared sides facing out; squeeze gently.

MOLASSES AND SPICE LEMON SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine wet ingredients and sugar in one bowl, dry ingredients in another, then combine.
• Chill for about in hour so the dough is easy to work with.
• Form into balls and roll in sugar and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10 minutes or until the tops just start to crack a bit. Remove from oven and cool completely before filling.
• Filling:.
• Combine remaining 3 tablespoons margarine, lemon juice, and confectioner's sugar in bowl and whisk until smooth. Spread heaping teaspoon filling over bottoms of half of cooled cookies. Top with remaining cookies and let filling set 1 hour.
• When cookies are cool, and filling is ready, just frost the bottom of one cookie with the frosting and place another cookie on top to make a sandwich.
• Enjoy!

GINGER CREME SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and molasses. In another bowl, whisk flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Refrigerate, covered, overnight., Preheat oven to 375°. Shape dough into 1-in. balls; roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with a fork, forming a crisscross pattern. Bake until set (do not overbake), 8-10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool., Meanwhile, combine filling ingredients until smooth. Spread over bottoms of half of the cookies; cover with remaining cookies. Refrigerate.

LEMON GINGER SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• to prepare the cookies:.
• sift dry ingredients into a medium bowl and set aside.
• in a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed.beat the butter and powdered sugar till smooth -- about 1 minute.
• stop and scrape down sides of bowl as needed during mixing --.
• on low speed, mix in dry ingredients and the dough holds together and comes away from the sides of the bowl.
• divide the dough in half and form into two 6" discs -- wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate the dough until cold -- at least 45 minutes.
• preheat the oven to 325*.
• Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or lightly spray with non stick spray.
• unwrap one piece of dough.lightly flour the rolling surface and rolling pin.roll the dough into a rectangle 12x8".and 1/4" thick.
• slide a butter knife under it to loosen it from the rolling surface.
• use a cookie cutter to cut out 3 1/2" circles or any shape you prefer --.
• set dough scraps aswide.
• place dough with help of thin metal spatula.cake frosting utensil works great here.
• 1" apart on prepared sheets -- they do not spread very much -- Repeat the rolling and cutting process with the second piece of dough. gather together all of the dough scraps, forming a smooth dish.repeat the rolling and cutting process.you will have 18 cookies when finished.
• cut about 1" circle, or other shape from the center of half of the cookies.and remove these from the cookies -- you can bake these for snacks.
• bake the cookies one sheet at a time until edges are light broqwn and tops are firm.about 20 minutes.
• cool for 3 minutes on the sheets before transfering them to a wire rack to cool completely.
• to prepare the FILLING:.
• in a medium bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter, powdered sugar, lemon zest and lemon zest till smooth.
• turn the cookies without the holes, bottom side up.leave just 1/8" plain edge, spread about 1 tblspoon filling on each one.
• place the bottoms of the cookies with the holes on top of the filling.
• Cookie sandwiches can be wrapped individually in plastic wrap and stored in a tightly covered container in refrigerator for up to 4 days.
• bring to room temperature before serving to enhance lemon flavors.