This is going to be a fun week. I didn’t plan it out this way, but I’ve ended up with lots of goodies to giveaway, so this week is going to be giveaway week! I’ve got giveaways today through Thursday, and I might just throw in a giveaway on Friday and Saturday – just to round the week off. It is the holidays, after all!!
Up first – my friends at McCormick have teamed up with Kim Ima, the author of The Treats Truck Baking Book. If you are looking for some ideas for some holiday baking this year, this is a must have book. In fact, it’s a baking book that you’ll want for year round baking!
I couldn’t pass up these cookies the minute I saw them in this book. A brown sugar soft cookie sandwich with a browned butter frosting – this one screamed out to me! I would probably make them a bit smaller next time, because these cookies are super sweet, but I did love the soft texture of the cookies and of course, I loved the browned butter! I also think they would be great with a sprinkle of salt to balance out a bit of the sweetness. There are so many cookies, cakes and brownie recipes in this cookbook that I can’t wait to try out!
Want to win a copy of The Treats Truck Baking Book by Kim Ima? Thanks to McCormick, I have a cookbook, along with some cinnamon, ginger and peppermint extract to give to one of you!
Here’s how you can enter:
Mandatory: Comment below and let me know your favorite holiday cookie.
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*This giveaway is open to US residents.
*This giveaway will be open from today until Monday, December 11th Tuesday, December 12th at midnight MST. The winner will be emailed on December 12th December 13th, 2011.
2 soft brown sugar cookies are sandwiched with a browned butter buttercream. A truly indulgent cookie!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 cups (4 sticks) butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 5 cups confectioners' sugar
- 6 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream the sugar and butter together. Add in the egg yolks and the flour and mix well. Turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap and wrap, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 325F. Grease a baking sheet or line with parchment paper.
- Roll the dough out to 1/4" thick. Cut the cookies with a round cookie cutter. (If the dough is soft, refrigerate until firmed up.) Place the cookies 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until slightly golden. Cool completely on the baking sheet.
- Place the butter in a medium saucepan and place over medium heat. Stirring often, cook until brown flecks appear. Take off the heat.
- Add the vanilla and confectioners' sugar to the butter and whisk to combine. Whisk in the milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until creamy and smooth.
- Using an offset spatula or butter knife, frost the underside of 1 cookie and top with another cookie to make a sandwich. Repeat with the rest of the cookies.
- Cookies will keep in an airtight container for 3 to 5 days.
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- Recipe from The Treats Truck Baking Book


























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My favorite holiday cookie has to be the classic butter cookie! My sister and I make them with my mom almost every year for Christmas!
My favorite holiday cookie is my mom’s sugar cookies! Her cookie and frosting recipes are the best
I forgot to say how awesome these caramel creme sandwich cookies look!! I like Taste and Tell on facebook too.
Crazy! I just blogged about these cookies a couple of weeks ago – aren’t they great! I think it may turn into a holiday favorite.
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Those sound amazing!
favorite holiday cookie = really I am not picky. I love!! cookies of all kinds and have seen this book on Amazon and would love it!
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Soft frosted sugar cookies! A cookbook full of treats? Sweet!
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Could these look any tastier?! No way!
Just give me some fudge and truffles and I am a very happy girl
Maple stars. A maple infused sugar cookie with maple frosting and golden demerara sugar sprinkled on top!
I like many so my favorite tends to change daily – right now chewy, molasses cookies
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Delicious looking cookies! What an awesome flavor.
Cheers,
Rosa
I think Snickerdoodles are my favorite.
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My favorite cookie is peanut butter blossoms.
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Raspberry Thumbprints…with a very buttery base. Yum!
I would have to say Hungry Boy Cookies.
Tie between classic gingerbread and chocolate waffle cookies!
I love Snickerdoodles
My favorite cookie is one I don’t make anymore because I am the only one who eats it. It’s called “little knots” and it’s an anise and lemon flavored Italian cookie. My aunt Parma would make them for Christmas and then my mother would make them. They are very plain, not too sweet but just perfect with a cup of coffee.
Favorite cookie has to be a classic lemon sugar cookie from my grandmas recipe. Frosted, of course
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I love rosettes!! My grandmother used to make them and I finally got my own rosette iron!
I have to go with Old Fashioned Rolled Sugar Cookies in Holiday cutouts, iced and decorated with all the little candies and trimmings!
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My favorite cookie for the holidays this year is a peppermint candy sugar cookie.
Snowballs! Lots of powdered sugar!~ YUM
double chocolate chip!
Monster cookies! I make a batch of 100 every year!
Anything lemon! I make a lemon sandwich cookie that’s so good!
I know these aren’t home-made but I love the Oreo cookies covered in white chocolate that are in the stores around this time of the year. As for home-made, the always popular old standby, warm from the oven Toll House Cookies!
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I love my mom’s sugar cookies. They are the best otherwise I am a butter cookie lover.
These look yummy!
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Favorite cookie is Snickerdoodles!
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My favorite cookie is a gingerbread man. But heck lady, these cookies look wonderful.
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My favorite holiday cookie is oatmeal, walnut, cranberry. They really need fresh cranberries, thus the holiday categorization!
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My favorite cookie is Peanut Butter. But I LOVE baking all kinds and my husband LOVES to eat them!!
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My favorite holiday cookie is the key lime white chocolate cookies that my beat friend always sends me every year for christmas. My whole family loves them. I would love to win the cookbook as I love to bake.
And McCormicks spices and extracts are the best!!
My favorite of all is cut-out sugar cookies, with icing and sprinkles!
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French cookies are my favorite cookies. These sandwiches look great, I love caramel!
My favorite holiday cookie is gingerbread men!
My favorite holiday cookies are chocolate mint cookies. Just a chocolate cookie with a Hickory Farms mint (the pastel green, pink and yellow ones with the white sprinkles) melted on top!
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My favorite holiday cookies are the fudge cookies my family makes and ginger molasses cookies!
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My favorite holiday cookie isn’t really a cookie … well maybe. We call them “bark cookies” and they’re just ritz crackers with peanut butter on the inside dipped in chocolate.
Unfortunately I can’t eat these or most other cookie anymore … I have a gluten sensitivity. But I still love baking for everybody else! I’m planning to gift my dad and grandpa a “cookie of the month” subscription from my kitchen.
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Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I love anything caramel. My favorite cookie during this season is a simple snickerdoodle. They are so easy to make and fun to eat!
Gumdrop cookies like Grandma used to make!
Sugar cookies!
I want some of those cookies! I love all things caramel. My fave cookies are peanut butter cookies. I just made some last night and they were off the hook!
I love palmiers more than anything in the world, but buckeyes are a close second.
I love my Grandma’s Molasses Cookies. Thank you so much!
these sound wonderful!
i love these candy cane cookies (shaped like candy canes but made with almond extract!)
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gingersnaps with some coffee…pure winter love
My very favorite holiday cookie are my grandmother’s ginger cremes. These caramel cremes look amazing!!
Oatmeal cookies. I prefer them with raisins, but the rest of the family doesn’t, so I usually sneak some into the last batch.
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My favorite is Jam Thumbprints, rolled in coconut!
Chocolate Espresso Chews – deep, dark, luscious, and melty-smooth.
I like cinnamon cookies.
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my favorite cookies that are a MUST at Christmastime are frosted sugar cookies cut out in festive shapes and decorated appropriately. my mom, brother, and i have made them every year on christmas eve since we can remember and i’m 27 now!
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Sugar cookies with frosting!
Adding these to my must make list!
I LOVE magic cookie bars…or anything with coconut. Mmmm…
If I have to pick just one favorite holiday cookie, it would have to be my Mother-In-Law’s sugar cookies.
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my favorite holiday cookies are ribbon cookies (I love almond flavor); these cookies sound wonderful as well
I love gingerbread cookies.
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I love peanut butter cup cookies. They are my absolute favorite. Thanks for the chance to enter.
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My favorite holiday cookie is the peanut butter blossom!
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Spritz are my favorite cookies!!
Theese cookies look fabulous, definitely have to try these. If I had to choice just one cookie that is my holiday favorite it would probably be Red Velvet Cookies.
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Snickerdoodles!
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My favorite is snickerdoodles!
i love my grandma’s russian teacakes. i haven’t had them in years – it’s time to resurrect them!
Oh Deborah, why do you DO THIS TO ME! These look like the best cookie sandwich ever.
My favorite holiday cookies are rainbow cookies!
My favorite Christmas cookie is the simple sugar cookie.
My favorite is the one and only classic chocolate chip cookie
I love Snickerdoodles!
Spritz Cookies
I love thumbprints and make them every year.
My favorite cookie I have to make every Christmas season is white chocolate oatmeal toffee cookies. Love them!
classic sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles!
Wonderful cookies, they look so yummy! I wish I qualified for the giveaway, but I live in Canada. I am sure the lucky winner will have a great present for the holidays
My Holiday favorite are sugar cookies with royal icing!
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My favorite Christmas chookies would have to be the mint meringue with mini chocolate chips my grandma used to make every Christmas. She just turned 90 on Sunday, and doesn’t make her cookies anymore, but I now make them for my children and we all love them!
PB kisses
I love thumb print cookies.
Also if you want, I’m also having a cookbook giveaway this week. Feel free to stop on by. Jackie
A Swiss cookie called a Brazalli! You need a special iron to make them. They are addicting!
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I love M&M sugar cookies!!!
My favorite are the peanut butter cookies with the Hershey’s kiss on top.
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ANY cookies! Holidays mean an assortment of cookies when it comes to my family
If I had to choose one, I’d go with good ol’ chocolate chip!
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It wouldn’t be Christmas without Spritz cookies!
My favorite cookie is decorated sugar cookies.
My favorite are Mexican Wedding Balls – I make them with honey and pecans and they’re just divine!
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My favorite is Christmas Sandwich Creams. Yum yum!
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip brownie cookies!
My favorite holiday cookies are the Hershey Kiss Peanut Blossoms
My favorite holiday cooking is Peanut Butter Blossoms as seen in Joy of Baking! MMM i remember making them with my mom and eating them warm straight from the oven!
Nutmeg sugar cookies
I love chocolate crinkles, but frozen.
Favorite holiday cookie? Decorated sugar cookies, because they remind me of being a kid!
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Ah Deborah….what can I say? These are lovely and tasty and calling to me through my screen.
When will they invent Wonka Vision?
Big, soft sugar cookies.
These look delicious! My favorite cookies are the ever classic chocolate chip, but around the holidays my mother makes some really fantastic mocha cookies!
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My favorite Christmas cookies are my mother’s cutouts and my gingersnaps!
I love chrusciki and gingersnaps!
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My favorite holiday cookies are spritz cookies
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spicy russian tea cakes!
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I look any cookie with jam in or on it!