Gingersnap Sandwich Cookies

These Ginger Sandwich Cookies are filled with almond butter and maple cream! With its small portion, it is a deliciously healthy dessert.

This post and giveaway are sponsored by Roxbury Mountain Maple. All opinions are ours.

When I first started reading food blogs (around 2008), I had no idea there were real people behind them. The idea of ​​ordinary people making recipes, photographing food like in magazines, and regularly posting those pictures online was too much for my brain. Who were these people and how did they have so much free time? Did they have real jobs? Was it really robots trying to sell you something or steal your soul?

A lot has changed since the early days of food blogging and I think the idea of ​​real people writing food blogs is being accepted. In truth, there are so many blogs that recipes and food pictures are a dime a dozen. These images have become so commonplace that I think we’re losing a bit of the story behind each one. Read on for the story behind these Ginger Sandwich Cookies!

The story behind this sandwich cookie recipe

Because food shots don’t come out of nowhere. The story of these ginger sandwich cookies goes like this: A family business that makes maple syrup in the Catskills of New York came to Alex and I to create a recipe using their maple cream. Maple cream is maple syrup that is heated and stirred to make a pure maple spread. The cream has an intensely concentrated maple flavor and the jar has quickly become a prized possession in our fridge.

How do we create recipes here at A Couple Cooks? A bit of trial and error. Alex and I both thought about recipes: Alex said gingerbread sandwich, I said gingerbread pancakes. So we decided to try them both! Alex’s cookies were good, but the amount of maple cream needed for a real sandwich was instant sugar overload. I returned the favor with gingerbread pancakes topped with maple cream. Alex thought they were too sweet for breakfast (and I agreed), so we went back to the sandwich cookie idea. This time we combined almond butter with maple cream for a rich, salty-sweet bite with natural nutty goodness. And what followed was magical.

How to make sandwich cookies

These ginger sandwich cookies have a healthy filling of almond butter and pure maple cream. It’s a slice of heaven, and the small portion makes it a relatively healthy dessert. They’re perfect for fall and winter, even as Christmas cookies! Cookie dough is a standard flour and sugar dough made even spicier with freshly grated ginger. The dough will chill for 3 hours so be sure to factor that into your timing! Once cool, roll out the dough and you will need cutters like these or another small object to cut out a 1 1/2 inch diameter circle. You can also bake larger cookies with larger cutters, but remember that you may need to add a few minutes to the baking time as the cookies are larger.

For the filling of these sandwich cookies: almond butter and maple cream! For the almond butter, we used our homemade almond butter recipe, which we made without spices and maple syrup. You can also use store-bought almond butter. For maple cream, the easiest way is to buy maple cream, or you can make your own. The maple cream we used in this recipe is made by Roxbury Mountain Maple, a family business run by the Holscher family in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. It is made using only maple syrup, with the syrup being heated and stirred until millions of maple crystals form to create a pure maple spread. It’s delicious and a fabulous Christmas gift idea (pay attention, friends and family!). Visit Roxbury’s Amazon Store for Maple Syrup, Maple Cream and Maple Sugar.

Looking for Christmas cookie recipes?

In addition to these sandwich cookies, here are some of our favorite Christmas cookie recipes:

This recipe is…

This sandwich cookie recipe is vegetarian.