I have a confession. I bought 3 huge boxes of candy canes and am using them in recipes left and right. Hopefully you love candy canes as much as I do? Right? What we have here today is a fudgy chocolate cookie sandwich stuffed with candy cane buttercream in the center. What is candy cane buttercream? Glad you asked. The delightfully festive buttercream starts just as any basic vanilla buttercream—butter, vanilla extract, powdered sugar, and a touch of milk. I use this classic recipe anytime I want a vanilla frosting. Simply grind up some candy canes and sift the candy cane “dust” into the vanilla buttercream. The dust gives the buttercream just enough peppermint flavor and a charming light pink hue, which I think is gorgeous paired with the dark chocolate cookies! I love a pretty cookie. Confession. I ate some leftover candy cane “dust bunnies” with a spoon -> minty powdery perfection! Candy cane dust will be the loudest, but sweetest thing you’ll food processor will ever make. 😉 The cookies themselves are worth writing home about. They have cocoa powder, rich melted chocolate, and mini chocolate chips in the dough—a triple chocolate threat. Would you have it any other way? The cookies are rich and dense, just like brownies. My version of a “brookie”—or brownie cookies. The cookies are a chocoholics pure dream and the perfect “bread” for the minty candy cane buttercream. The absolute best part of these cookies is that they stand the true cookie test—remaining soft, even the next day. To keep the frosting fresh, be sure to store your extras in the refrigerator. If you have any extras, that is. We didn’t. 😉 My intense fudgy cookies aren’t for the faint of heart and do require a few steps. For a short cut, try using my Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies instead! Cake mix short-cut, I’m all about those sometimes. You and your family are going to just love these cookie sandwiches this holiday season!
More Festive Peppermint Picks:
Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprints Peppermint Bark & Peppermint Bark Fudge Peppermint Mocha Cookies Peppermint Frosted Chocolate Cookies White Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes
