Q:Why did the cookie cry?
A:Because his mom was a wafer too long!
There will only be happy tears when you serve these Molasses Spice Lemon Sandwich Cookies. The sweet-tart lemon filling is perfect with the warm spice of the cookies.
Molasses Spice Lemon Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients for cookies:
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 cups granulate sugar, divided
1/4 cup dark molasses
1 egg
12 Tbs unsalted butter, melted and cooled
Ingredients for filling:
3 Tbs butter, softened
3 Tbs lemon juice
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
Directions:
1. Whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and cloves together in medium bowl. In another bowl, stir 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar, molasses, egg and melted butter together until combined.
2. Add dry mixture to butter mixture in three batches, stirring after each addition. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until dough is firm, about 1 hour.
3. Adjust oven racks to middle-upper and lower-middle positions and heat oven to 375°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
4. Place remaining 1/2 cup sugar in small bowl. Shape dough into 3/4-inch balls then roll the balls in granulated sugar. Transfer to prepared baking sheets, spacing balls 2 inches apart.
5. Bake until tops of cookies are just beginning to crack, 8 to 10 minutes, rotating rack position and direction of baking sheets halfway through baking time.
6. Cool cookies on baking sheets for 3 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
7. For filling, mix butter, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt together in medium bowl. Whisk in confectioners’ sugar until smooth.
8. Turn half of cooled cookies over so the bottom side faces up. Spread each with 1 tsp lemon filling. Sandwich with another cookie.
Makes 3 to 4 dozen sandwich cookies
Recipe from America’s Test Kitchen
‘This Bird Is Flown’ is new from T.R. Burge & The Temple, the Manchester UK based band whose members include T.R. Burge, Aninka Rosa, Pete Leaver, and Frederic Lyenn Jacques. Written following an emotional dream of Burge’s, it’s a layered, moody and tense song that I have really been enjoying. And it makes me want to cry, in a good way.
“Deep down I know
we’re just a fragment
inside a solitary mind
She’s been out there
for days and days
waiting on the shoreline”
Check out T.R. Burge & The Temple on the band’s Website where links to buy the music will be coming soon.
Cheers!
