Deliciously spiced, soft cookies are baked to a beautiful golden color and have a crispy, crackled crust. They are filled with a sweet and tart cream cheese frosting and sandwiched together.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cloves and cardamom powder.
In a separate large bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth and creamy. Add the egg and whisk until incorporated.
Next, add the molasses and vanilla and mix until combined.
Lastly, add in the flour mixture and mix until fully incorporated.
Cover the bowl and place into the fridge for 1 hour.
Chill & Shape the Dough
Once the cookie dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 350 F.
Roll the cookie dough into rough 1 ½ - 2 TBSP sized balls and roll each of them into the powdered sugar to fully coat.
Place them onto a parchment-lined baking sheet leaving at least 2” in circumference to account for spreading.
Bake the Cookies
Place them into the preheated oven to bake for 15-18 minutes or until the cookies have become a beautiful golden color and are baked.
Remove from the oven and place onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Make Frosting & Cookie Sandwiches
To make the cream cheese frosting, add all of the ingredients to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
Beat together on low for 1 minute to allow the powdered sugar to become incorporated. Increase the mixer speed to high and beat together for an additional 1-2 minutes or until creamy and fluffy.
Spoon the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star tip.
Pipe a layer of frosting onto the bottom half of 11 cookies.
Place a separate, plain cookie onto the cream cheese frosting and press down just enough to make the frosting spread to the edges of the cookies.
Finish doing so with the remaining cookies until 11 total sandwiches have been made.
Notes
Storage: Cookies may be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can use 2 tsp of dough to make smaller sandwich cookies & have 22-24 cookie sandwiches total. I like to make them smaller when I'm putting them on holiday cookie trays since there are usually several other types of cookies.