Coconut Vanilla Jam Sandwich Cookies
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Spelt Flour Cookies
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Serves: 21 Sandwich Cookies
 
Great sandwich cookies that can easily be made with the kids. I made these with Spelt Flour but it is 100% substitutable with all purpose.
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
  • 200gr Butter – Softened (I grate my butter to speed up things)
  • ½ Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 Cups Spelt Flour (Can be substituted with all purpose)
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 Cup Unsweetened Shredded Coconut
For the Vanilla Filling:
  • 50gr Butter – Softened
  • ¼ tsp Vanilla Extract
  • ½ Cup Powdered Sugar (Icing Sugar)
  • 2 tsp Milk
For the Jam Filling:
  • Your favorite jam (I used Blueberry and Apricot)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375F (180C)
  2. Layer a large baking pan with parchment paper
  3. In a stand mixer bowl, put the softened butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract and whip until light and fluffy.
  4. Add in the egg and whip a bit more until the egg is fully combined with the butter (careful, don’t over mix it)
  5. Add in the flour, baking powder and coconut into the whipped butter and mix (don’t whip) until all the ingredients are fully combined and you get an even, soft dough batter.
  6. Scoop 1 tablespoon batter at a time and roll into a ball. Place the cookies balls on the baking sheet about 1- 1 ½ apart from each other.
  7. Gently flatten each cookie ball with you hand and decorate with stripes by gently pressing a fork onto each cookie (optional decoration but it looks pretty).
  8. Place the cookies in the preheated oven for about 12 minutes or until golden brown (note that Spelt Flour tends to take less baking time so keep an eye open).
  9. When cookies are ready, remove from oven and let them completely cool down before filling.
Prepare the Vanilla Icing:
  1. While the cookies are cooling off, Whip the butter, vanilla extract and icing sugar until they’re light and fluffy.
  2. Add in the milk and keep whipping for another 1-2 minutes until you get a nice, white, spread consistency mix (aka Icing :) )
Assemble the Cookies:
  1. Take each pair of cookies, spread vanilla icing on one cookie and some jam on the other cookie and close them together to form a sandwich.
Recipe by Maya`s Kitchen at https://www.mayaskitchen.info/2013/08/27/coconut-vanilla-jam-sandwich-cookies/