A Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich is a tasty cookie treat that takes two soft chocolate chip cookies and sandwiches them together. Inside the two cookies is filled with fluffy and sweet frosting. If you are a cookie lover by doing this and making them a Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich it totally takes the cookie to the next level of awesome!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich
If you are looking an amazing dessert then you are going to love these cookie sandwiches. Soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies filled with creamy and fluffy butter cream frosting. You can’t go wrong making them for dessert!
My kids love it when they see me pull out the cookie ingredients and the frosting ingredients because they know the next thing I am making is one of their favorite desserts. Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches!
During the summer months I tend to change things up and make Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches because they are amazing too. If you are looking for one of the best summer desserts you gotta make them!
What is a Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich?
A Cookie sandwich is when you take 2 cookies, and put homemade frosting in the middle of them and turn them into a sandwich. You can make cookie sandwiches with any cookie, but they are best made with soft cookies.
I make mine with the best chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe ever because it is a perfectly fluffy and soft chocolate chip cookie. This is by far my favorite cookie recipe to make when I am wanting to WOW people. I didn’t think it could get any better and then I stuffed it full of sweet and fluffy frosting. Yea, those cookies didn’t last long on the counter, they were gone faster then when I don’t make them into cookie sandwiches!
Best Cookies for Making Cookie Sandwiches
I love using chocolate chip cookies but there are other great cookies that are perfect for making cookie sandwiches with.
If you are looking for another amazing cookie recipe to use, my bakery style chocolate chip cookies work amazing too! If you want to get really fancy, make them with monster cookies, chocolate chip M&M Cookies, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies or peppermint chocolate chip cookies.
Best frosting for Making Cookie Sandwiches
For these Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches I used bakery style buttercream frosting. However, you can change up the frosting that you use to customize them however you want to. Depending on my mood there are times that I use other frostings that I love.
Some of the other frostings that I use when making these Cookie Sandwiches are:
- Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
- Chocolate buttercream Frosting
- Almond Buttercream Frosting
- Mocha Buttercream Frosting
- Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting
- Cookie Dough Frosting
- Mint Buttercream Frosting
- Peanut Butter Buttercream frosting
Cookie Sandwich Supplies
You will need a few things to make it easier to make these tasty cookie sandwiches. When baking cookies I find that it is best to use a silicon mat on top of my baking sheet. You don’t need a silicone baking mat, but I do find them easier.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich Ingredients
- flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- salt
- unsalted butter
- brown sugar
- granulated white sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- chocolate chips
Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- Butter
- Shortening
- Vanilla Extract
- Confectioners sugar
- hot water
How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich
Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and kosher salt together in a medium bowl.
Beat your butter, brown sugar and sugar together with your mixer on medium speed until light and creamy, about 5 minutes.
Add in the eggs and the vanilla just until combined.
Turn the speed down to low and carefully add in the flour mixture just until its combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
With a small scoop, scoop out the dough and refrigerate for an two hours.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.Roll each scooped cookie in your hands so they are round and smooth.
Place them on a cookie sheet two inches apart.
Bake for 14 to 16 minutes, just until the edges start turning brown. (They will still look raw in the middle but the remanding heat from the cookie sheet will finish cooking them.)Let them cool on the cookie sheet for 5 to 10 minutes.
While the Cookies are cooking make your frosting.
How to Make Buttercream Frosting
Place your butter and shortening together in the bowl of your mixer.
Mix them together on medium speed until they are nice and creamy.
Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting and slowly incorporate the powdered sugar into the shortening mixture.
Once you have added all the sugar to the mix pour in the hot water and the vanilla.
Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
Assembling Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches
Once the cookies are cooled and frosting is made, the next step is to put the chocolate chip cookie sandwiches together.
Cut the end off your piping bag and place the star tip into the bag.
Place your buttercream into the piping bag.
Turn half of your cookies upside down.
Pipe the buttercream onto the flipped cookies.
Top each cookie with an extra cookie.
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Chocolate chip cookie sandwiches
Ingredients
Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
- 3 3/4 cups flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 pounds chocolate chips
Frosting Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 tablespoons hot water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 pounds confectioners sugar
Instructions
Chocolate Chip Cookies Directions
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and kosher salt together in a medium bowl.
- Beat your butter, brown sugar and sugar together with your mixer on medium speed until light and creamy, about 5 minutes.
- Add in the eggs and the vanilla just until combined.
- Turn the speed down to low and carefully add in the flour mixture just until its combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- With a small scoop, scoop out the dough and refrigerate for an two hours.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.Roll each scooped cookie in your hands so they are round and smooth.
- Place them on a cookie sheet two inches apart.
- Bake for 14 to 16 minutes, just until the edges start turning brown. (They will still look raw in the middle but the remanding heat from the cookie sheet will finish cooking them.)Let them cool on the cookie sheet for 5 to 10 minutes.
- While the Cookies are cooking make your frosting.
Frosting Directions
- Place your butter and shortening together in the bowl of your mixer.
- Mix them together on medium speed until they are nice and creamy.
- Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting and slowly incorporate the powdered sugar into the shortening mixture.
- Once you have added all the sugar to the mix pour in the hot water and the vanilla.
- Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
Assembling Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches
- Once the cookies are cooled and frosting is made, the next step is to put the chocolate chip cookie sandwiches together.
- Cut the end off your piping bag and place the star tip into the bag.
- Place your buttercream into the piping bag.
- Turn half of your cookies upside down.
- Pipe the buttercream onto the flipped cookies.
- Top each cookie with an extra cookie.
- Store in an airtight container.
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