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Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

These Noche Buena Chocolate Sandwich Cookies include the flavors of chocolate, coffee liqueur, cayenne pepper. and dulce de leche. Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with dulce de leche are rich, spicy, and deeply flavored with Dutch processed cocoa. The addition of a small amount of cayenne pepper adds a subtle warmth to the cookies.

The flavors in these cookies may be complex, but the cookies are easier to make than they look. You don't have to chill the dough, and the dough is really easy to work with.

While you could use a cookie scoop to portion the dough, it was easier for me to divide the dough into evenly sized pieces and roll them into balls with my hands. Your hands will get a little chocolatey, but you'll end up with the exact amount of cookies that the recipe calls for, and all of the cookies will be evenly sized.... much better for making cookie sandwiches! Dulce de leche is sugar and milk that is cooked low and slow until it turns to a beautiful thick caramel. I used the dulce de leche that comes in a can and can be found in the same section as evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk in the baking section of your grocery store. It's the perfect texture for sandwich cookies. I heard that you can make dulce de leche yourself in the slow cooker with unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk submerged in water, but I have not tried it myself. By the way, the sprinkles on top of these cookies are actually ground almonds! These cookies are moist and dense, and have just the right amount of heat to warm you up during the cold winter months.

This month, we are baking international traditional winter holiday cookies. Need holiday cookie ideas? After the recipe, be sure to check out the rest of the cookie recipes from the Creative Cookie Exchange bakers.

Yield: 20 sandwich cookies Noche Buena Chocolate Sandwich Cookies Recipe



recipe adapted from Cook's Country Magazine, December/January, 2012 Everyone loves cookies at the holidays--no matter what holidays you are celebrating. And there are so many wonderful traditional cookies all over the world that we have decided to revisit this theme. Check out December 2014 for other choices from our first time doing it. And get inspired to get into the kitchen! Labels: cayenne, chocolate, cookies, dulce de leche, Kahlua, nochebuena, sandwich cookies



