Description
A fun and festive holiday cookie sprinkled with crushed candy canes, dusted with sparkling sugar and filled with a delightful peppermint buttercream. This shortbread sandwich cookie will add a little fancy to your holiday cookie tray.
Ingredients
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For Shortbread Cookies
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 cup rice flour, sifted
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- pinch of kosher salt
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 10 TBSP cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- crushed candy canes for topping
For Peppermint Buttercream
- 8 TBSP unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups confectioner’s sugar, sifted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp peppermint extract
- 1–2 TBSP whole milk
For White Chocolate Drizzle
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 TBSP coconut oil, liquid
Instructions
For Shortbread Cookies
- In a stand mixer, combine flours, sugar and salt on low for 10 seconds. Add cold butter, mixing on medium until large crumbs form
- Mix in egg and vanilla on medium to low until dough barely comes together
- Remove dough from mixer and and place on marble slab or countertop and need by hand until smooth
- Wrap carefully in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Remove dough from refrigerator and allow to soften slightly
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper
- On floured surface, roll dough into 1/4 inch thickness
- Cut dough into desired shapes with cookie cutter
- Place on cookie sheets and chill for 30 minutes
- Bake 10-12 minutes, cookies will brown only slightly on edges
- Do not over bake
- Cool five minutes on cookie sheet and then remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack before assembling cookie sandwiches
For Frosting
- In bowl of a stand mixer, whip softened butter on high for 4-5 minutes
- Add confectioners sugar, vanilla and peppermint and mix on high for 2 minutes
- Add 1 TBSP of milk and continue to mix for one minute, adding more milk if frosting is too thick
For White Chocolate Drizzle
- Place 1 cup of white chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl
- Add coconut oil
- Microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between until melted
- Set aside until ready to use
Assembly
- Spoon buttercream into a piping bag
- Once shortbread is completely cool, pipe approximately 1-1 1/2 TBSP of buttercream onto the flat side of cookie
- Top buttercream with a second cookie
- Drizzle tops of sandwich cookies with melted white chocolate and crushed candy canes
- Set aside to set
- Store tightly covered at room temperature
Notes
Prep time includes chilling time for shortbread cookie dough