White chocolate sandwich cookies

White chocolate sandwich cookies, a recipe made with hazelnut shortbread and filled with a delicious white chocolate ganache.

White chocolate sandwich cookies

 The chocolate sandwich cookies are sandwiched together and contain a delicious white chocolate ganache, a perfect homemade snack for kids!

These hazelnut shortbread cookies recipe is very easy to make and keeps for a long time, you can replace the white chocolate ganache with :

• Jam
  
• Caramel salted butter
• Nutella or my healthy chocolate-nut spread
• Homemade praline paste
• Or a dark chocolate ganache
• Almond butter, peanut butter or coconut butter...

My materials for this recipe

• Baking tray
• Silicone baking mat
• Pastry rolling pin
  
• Round fluted cookies cutter
• Disposable pastry bag

How to make white chocolate sandwich cookies

Make the hazelnut shortbread

1. Start by placing the dry ingredients, flour, powdered sugar, hazelnut meal and salt in a container.
2. Then add the butter cut into pieces and rub with your hands until you get a sandy preparation.
3. Then add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla and mix with a tablespoon and finish the mixture with your hands until you form a smooth, homogeneous ball of dough.
4. Finally, cover the dough with cling film and place the dough in the chill 30 minutes to 1 hour.

 

Cookie shaping

1. First take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out with a rolling pin between 2 sheets of baking paper to a thickness of about 3 mm.
2. Then cut out your shortbread with a round fluted cutter of about 5 cm.
3. cookies on a baking tray covered with baking paper or a silicone baking mat.
4. Finish by putting your baking tray containing the cookies in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes to preheat the oven.

Baking shortbread cookies

1. Start by taking the cookie sheet out of the freezer.
2. And bake in the oven for the time indicated in the recipe sheet until your cookies have a nice golden color.
3. Finally, when they come out of the oven, the cookies are still a little soft, they will harden as they cool, let them cool for a few minutes on the baking tray before moving them.

Make the white chocolate ganache

1. First of all, chop the white chocolate and place it in a container.
2. Then place the liquid cream in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
3. Finally, pour the hot liquid cream over the white chocolate and mix with a spatula until a completely smooth ganache is obtained.
4. Set aside at room temperature, the ganache will harden.

 

Assembly of the sandwich cookies

1. Start by filling a pastry bag with white chocolate ganache.
2. And garnish the center with a cookie (like a macaroon).
3. Then cover with a second cookie and press lightly to flatten the chocolate ganache.
4. Finally, place your chocolate-filled shortbread cookies in the fridge for a few minutes to harden the ganache.

How to store the white chocolate sandwich cookies

These filled sandwich cookies can be stored at room temperature for 1 week in an airtight box or in the freezer for 3 months.

Other filled cookies recipes

• Linzer cookies