Way yummier than a whoopie pie!
Love and Basketball
Last Sunday, a local basketball team won their game. No big deal? Happens every day? True. But in this case, the team was the Dallas Mavericks, and the win just so happened to make them NBA champions.
Normally, I don’t follow basketball. (Hockey is my sport!) However, when it’s your city’s team in the finals, you can’t not get excited. It also offers a good excuse to throw a party. And my friends always jump at the chance for a party.
For our “Mavs-watching” party, I made these cookies.
As usual, they were gone almost before I put them down. Seriously, these cookies do not taste healthy. (I know, I say that about a lot of my recipes… but that’s only because it’s true!)
Above, my Guilt-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I left most of the cookies plain. But as I was packing them up, I just couldn’t resist having a little fun. And everyone knows that, in the language of food, the word for fun is frosting. (You didn’t know? Well now you do!)
Chocolate-Chip Sandwiches!
All it took was food coloring and this surprisingly-vegan frosting.
Okay, so the cookies weren’t really healthy anymore. Eh, but who needs health when you have frosting? (And, as earlier stated, most of the cookies were left unadorned. These few were just for fun!)
Cookie Sandwich Ideas
(For your gastronomical pleasure)
- peanut butter
- vegan ice cream
- my Chocolate-Fudge Frosting
Or maybe even marshmallow fluff (Smuckers is vegan) and chocolate chips? Who needs s’mores when you can have cookies? Cookies > graham crackers, yes?
Question of the Day:
What would be in your ultimate cookie sandwich?
Pumpkin? Peanut Butter and Jelly? I just got a new idea that involves bananas. Stay tuned!!
Ooeey gooey brownie batter and walnuts sandwiched between two cookies…yep, there it is!
I hate basketball, but since I live in Dallas, I got excited too. I was even going to go to the parade yesterday but oh my, I saw all those people there on the news…no way, crowds outside in 102 degree heat isn’t my thang 🙂
Almond butter and a banana melted and mixed together would be firmly my #1 go to in those cookies.
Well a smooshed naner would be amazing 🙂 but I was thinking like mint chocolate frosting, or mint ice cream would taste bomb on these!! They look great!
I would definitely put ice cream in my cookie sandwhich and maybe roll it in mini chocolate chips or sprinkes, yum!
Yum yum yum!!!
I love s’mores made with graham crackers, but you’re right, cookies are better!
There is a place in Westwood of LA (by the UCLA campus) and their cookie sandwiches are two cookies with a scoop of premium ice cream in the middle. I think I got their M&M cookies with Cookie Dough Ice Cream in the center… all for $1.50. It was magical!
So I guess my ideal cookie sandwich has fresh ice cream in the middle 😉
Katie,
Your posting titles are like poetry to me.
CCK > Shakespeare
🙂
Maybe that’s ’cause he wrote about death and I write about chocolate? Chocolate > death ;).
It’s also because you look better without make-up than he does. hehe
LOL! The bird world has it right: the males are the pretty ones (robins, peacocks, mallard ducks…). The girls don’t need to be “made up” probably because they’re awesome on their own. The guys have to look pretty to get the best girls! 😉
I would probably have to put dark chocolate peanut butter in mine 🙂
Oh my gosh, I totally had an idea to make cookie sandwiches out of these cookies, but you beat me to it. I’m just too lazy sometimes.
This is so weird, katie! I just wrote a post last night (am scheduling it for tomorrow) about cookie sandwiches, too! So weird…and mine involve bananas, too! Hahaha….ohmygoodness 😀 great minds think alike, huh?
Great, chocolate-loving minds! 🙂
Excited to see your post.
What would be in your ultimate cookie sandwich? = some sort of cream cheesey, buttercreamy filling, flanked by two nearly half raw choc chip cookies, and the whole entire thing dipped first into a white chocolate bath, then into a dark chocolate bath. (by this time the sammie is about the size of a baseball…lol)
GREAT work, Katie. Loving the blue interior. So festive 🙂
My ultimate cookie sandwich would be ice cream 🙂 I can never pass up a good ice cream sandwich.
Katie,
I’ve been following your blog for awhile, but this is my first comment. Tonight I was craving a cupcake/muffin and I made your single lady cupcake. Girl, you are a genius! I used blueberries, 2 T while flour + 1 T almond flour, and 1 T brown sugar for the sweetener (Will probably 1/2 the sweetener next time). Otherwise, I followed your recipe perfectly. My creation didn’t look as pretty as yours, but I can say that it was the best cupcake/muffin I have ever eaten! So satisfying. This was my first time using coconut oil for baking sweets, also. Terrific! So good that it didn’t need icing….and I calculated at least 1/2 the calories as one of those mega bakery muffins or cupcakes. Thank you!
Aw this made me so happy!! 🙂 🙂
Also, I’m kinda in love with coconut oil… it gives baked goods a shortbread-like quality!
these loook great! My dream sandwich is basically the chewiest cookies with vanilla bean ice cream that is then dipped around the edges in my favorite toppings like toffee and nuts. And a TALL glass of almond milk to dip it right in. 🙂
Definitely banana soft serve, or your almond milk ice cream that you posted yesterday. I always loved chipwiches growing up, but I think this vegan substitute would taste even better! Oh or a pistachio cream filling. I have been craving pistachio pudding lately, but I haven’t come up with a substitute for my favorite jell-o brand dessert!