Pretty Pink Sandwich Cookies begin with a fabulous sugar cookie, colored pink for Valentine's Day or any occasion! Two cookies filled with a sweet vanilla buttercream frosting for a lovely treat everyone enjoys!
3 1/2cupall-purpose flour, plus more for rolling dough
Pink food coloring, as needed
Icing
2cupspowdered sugar
1/2cupunsalted butter
1/2tspvanilla extract
1-3tspmilk, as needed
Instructions
Pink Cookies
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed.
Add the eggs, vanilla and salt and continue blending until thoroughly combined. Add in desired amount of food coloring.
Slowly add the flour, mixing just until combined.
Cover the dough and place in the refrigerator for one hour.
While the dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Remove dough from the refrigerator and roll out onto a floured surface about a half of an inch thick and cut into desired shapes.
Place shapes onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are set.
Meanwhile, prepare the icing by combining the powdered sugar, unsalted butter, milk and vanilla in a bowl and beating with an electric mixer on low until smooth.
When the cookies are completely cooled, pipe the icing on the bottom of a cookie and top with an additional cookie.
Notes
Don’t overcook the cookies. If they are golden brown on top, you overcooked them. The edges will brown up a bit, but don’t want for the top to brown.The number of cookies depends on how large your cookie cutters are. Mine was smaller and yielded 48 cookies, which made 24 sandwich cookies.