Vegan chocolate sandwich cookies with a coffee and walnut buttercream filling. These elegant cookies are deceptively simple to make, making them the perfect dessert for when you have unexpected guests.
Brownie or cookie – enter brookie?
We’ve all been there, out for dinner, finally reached the dessert menu and you want to order every single item. Well this recipe is just for that occasion; your three in one dessert and fingers up to what is socially acceptable. You have your chocolate brownie inspired texture, cake like sandwich complete with coffee and walnut buttercream and finally two extra thick cookies.
Vegan Chocolate Sandwich Cookies – The Ingredients
Anything with buttercream always screams indulgence, adding just the right amount of sweetness to the rich dark chocolate cookies. For tips on how to make perfectly smooth buttercream see this post.
Coffee and walnut is a timeless partnership and here they bring a rich, mature flavour to the buttercream. This icing is definitely not for kids. Toast the walnuts to draw out their roasted, almost bitter flavour. Next, finely grind the walnuts and stir into the buttercream, there will be the tiniest bit of texture but you won’t notice when spread on the cookies.
Vegan chocolate sandwich cookies – The Method
This a simple, foolproof recipe utilising the two bowl method; a favourite in my house since it means more time can be spent watching endless repeats of the office. Simply mix the wet ingredients and dry ingredients respectively and then combine. For a more in depth look on how to get the brownie cookie texture spot on look at my post ‘How to Bake Vegan Cookies’.
Chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes to allow the flavours to intensify and the cookie batter to firm up. Next, weigh out the cookie dough into 24 balls and bake for 12 minutes. Leave to cool on a wire rack. Prepare the buttercream and pipe approximately 2 tbsp onto one cookie and sandwich with a second. Now enjoy with a glass of milk and the sheer brilliant awkwardness of Michael Scott.
Leave a comment and let me know how you get on making these vegan chocolate sandwich cookies. I would love to see your creations over on instagram!
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Chocolate sandwich cookies
Ingredients
To make the cookies
- 275 g caster sugar
- 140 mls sunflower oil
- 100 mls oat milk unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 300 g plain flour
- 80 g cocoa powder
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 125 g dark chocolate chips
For the buttercream filling
- 75 g margarine
- 75 g baking fat
- 175 g icing sugar sieved
- 4 tbsp cornstarch
- 120 g walnuts
- 1/2 tsp vanilla paste
- 1.5 tsp coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water
Instructions
- In a large bowl whisk the caster sugar into the oil. Then whisk in the oat milk and vanilla.
- In a second bowl sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Stir through the chocolate chips.
- Fold the wet mixture into the dry ingredients just until all the flour has been incorporated.
- Cover the bowl and chill the cookie mixture in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/ fan 180°C / Gas 6. Remove the cookie dough from the fridge.
- Form the dough mixture into 24 balls and place on 2 baking trays lined with baking parchment. Bake in the oven for 12 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and leave to cool and firm up for 5 minutes on the baking tray. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
- Toast the walnuts in a frying pan over a moderate heat for 3-4 minutes. Then finely grind the walnuts using either a pestle and mortar or spice grinder.
- To prepare the buttercream icing, add the cold margarine and baking fat to a bowl. Use an electric whisk to beat the mixture until smooth. Add the sieved icing sugar in thirds, mixing well in between each addition.
- Finally whisk in the cornstarch, ground walnuts, vanilla paste and coffee. Pipe approximately 2 tbsp of buttercream onto one cookie and sandwich with a second.
Made these for a bake off at work, as well as the vegan lebkuchen. Everyone loved them 🙂
Baked these yesterday, not really a baker but recipe was easy to follow. Couldn’t really taste the walnut in the buttercream filling but still tasted great.
Adding this to my baking list. I love coffee and chocolate together!!