Nice Monster Sandwich Cookies

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As I've said before, I dear making themed treats! So terminal calendar week when I made the cookie cake for Kristin, I was trying to figure out how I should usage my leftover frosting together with cookie dough! (I made a triple batch of each because I wasn't certain how much was needed for the cake)

I landed on cookie-frosting sandwiches, but together with hence when I saw these goofy candy eyes at the grocery shop I got the thought to build monsters!

I dear how they turned out! Adorable! I gave a few to the vecino kids together with they loved them too.

If you lot can't detect candy eyes, you lot tin only usage M&Ms or fifty-fifty marshmallows. I know at my local grocery store, they sell regular white candy eyes all twelvemonth circular inward the baking department.

Also, I ended upwards making novel frosting for these monster sandwich cookies afterward all because I wanted it a piffling creamier than the cookie cake frosting. The frosting recipe I used for the cookie cake is actually adept for that role because I needed it to live really nighttime hence that it would stand upwards out together with I needed it to harden. But I didn't ask that for the cookie sandwich. So I reduced the sum of confectioners' saccharide (which makes your frosting stiffer) together with I reduced the cocoa pulverisation hence it was to a greater extent than milk chocolatey.

For this frosting recipe, I used European Style Unsalted Challenge butter. It's ane of the newest Challenge products together with it tastes only similar you lot would imagine if you lot lived on the farm. It's hence rich, together with it creams actually truly well!

Monster Sandwich Cookies

Yield: Makes nearly 10 cookie sandwiches

Ingredients

For the chocolate combat cookies

• 2 together with 1/4 cups flour (281.25 grams)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup Challenge salted butter, room temperature
• 1 loving cup chocolate-brown saccharide (207 grams)
• 1 (3.4 oz) bundle instant vanilla pudding
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 loving cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• (Plus candy eyes together with white chocolate chips for teeth)

For the milk chocolate frosting

• 1 loving cup (2 sticks) Challenge unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• 3 together with 1/2 cups (441 grams) confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 loving cup (50 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 3 Tablespoons milk

Directions
For the cookies

1. Measure flour together with baking soda inward medium bowl. Combine together with develop aside.
2. In large bowl, cream butter together with chocolate-brown saccharide together until low-cal together with fuffy.
3. Add instant vanilla pudding bundle together with rhythm out until good blended.
4. Mix inward eggs together with vanilla.
5. Slowly add together flour mixture to butter mixture until only incorporated.
6. Fold inward chocolate chips alongside a spatula.
7. Cover dough together with chill inward fridge for at to the lowest degree ane hour.
8. Remove dough from refrigerator.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
10. Roll dough into balls (the size of ii tablespoons) together with house on greased baking canvas or silicone baking mat.
11. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
12. Remove from oven together with cool on cookie canvas for several minutes earlier moving to a wire rack to cool completely.

 For the frosting

1. With a handheld or stand upwards mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment, rhythm out the butter on medium speed until creamy - nearly ii minutes.
2. Add the confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla extract, together with milk, beating on depression speed afterward each addition.
3. Once everything is added, rhythm out on high speed until creamy for nearly ii minutes.
4. Spoon frosting into resealable plastic handbag or piping bag. Cut 1/2 inch off ane corner of bag, together with pipage together with ample sum of frosting on bottom of 1 cookie. 
5. Place about other cookie on overstep together with press downward at an angle hence cookies await similar an opened upwards mouth.
6. Use extra frosting to attach candy eyes together with house white chocolate chips inward frosting to await similar teeth.