brownie cookie dough sandwich-cookies

Happy Hallowe'en!

On a totally different, non-Hallowe'en related topic, I made cookies today. And get this.. they weren't pumpkin, or in the shape of a pumpkin, or orange. They're actually full of chocolate chip cookie dough, that I probably could have dyed orange but was getting tired of the whole pumpkin-festival look. So anyway, they're just like any other normal day's cookies. But better. Where am I going with this?

Oh yeah. Here.

First you bake these wonderfully decadent chocolate brownie-like cookies:

Brownie Cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cups brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt (if your butter is salted, skip this)
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Prehead oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl or mixer, cream together butter, and both sugars. Add the vanilla, and the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Add the dry mix to the wet mix and beat well.
Using a spoon, scoop even amounts (about a teaspoon or two) of the dough onto a greased baking sheet. The dough is meant to be rolled into balls, but its usually too sticky to do - if you can do it, congrats! Bake for 8-10 minutes or until puffy and slightly cracked on top. Allow cookies to cool for 5-10 minutes on the pan before removing to cool completely. The cookies should flatten out quite a bit in the cooling process, so don't worry!

Now, make the Cookie Dough Filling:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered/icing sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour (for authentic cookie-dough flavour)
1 jar (13 oz) Marshmallow Fluff
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

In a mixer, cream together butter, brown sugar and vanilla. Gradually add icing sugar and flour. The mixture will be very thick and slightly crumbly. Add in the jar of marshmallow creme. Mix well until fluffy and smooth. Stir in chocolate chips.

Once the cookies are completely cooled, spread on 2-3 tablespoons of the filling onto the bottom of one cookie, and using the bottom of another cookie sandwich the filling inbetween.

And there you have it! Makes about 15 cookie sandwiches. Mmmmm.