Gingerbread and Marmalade Cream Sandwich Cookies
Yields approximately 25-30 cookies
Cookie Ingredients:
Trader Joe's Gingerbread Cake & Baking Mix
an egg
vegetable oil
Icing Ingredients:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup of butter, softened
2 tbs of marmalade
1 tbs of honey
a pinch of salt
a dash or two of powdered ginger (or use ginger orange marmalade if you can find it)
Directions:
1. Prepare dough by using the cookie instructions on the baking mix box, use vegetable oil instead of the melted butter in the recipe. Chill in the fridge for an hour.
2. Roll out dough on a floured surface till it's about 1/8th of an inch thick (approximate is fine).
3. Use the vegetable oil cap (it should be roughly quarter sized) to cut out circles in the dough. Combine the leftover dough, roll out and repeat until you run out of dough.
4. Place cookies on parchment paper lined cookie sheets and bake according to package instructions. Watch between the 3-5 minute mark. Mine took about 4 minutes.
5. While cookies are cooling, whip up the icing ingredients in a small-medium mixing bowl until well mixed and fluffy.
6. When the cookies are cooled, spread a small amount of icing on the flat side (the underside) of a cookie and top with another cookie. Repeat until you're out of cookies.
Hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
In other news, I had a blast playing with The Gin Rebellion during Dragon Con this year. We were fortunate to have our good friends, Nathaniel Johnstone of the Nathaniel Johnstone Band, and Dimitri and Sephora from The Extraordinary Contraptions joining us during our shows on violin, upright bass, and accordion. Other highlights include:
- An epic lip-syc battle between me, HM, and John Sprocket of The Cog is Dead to the song "Death of the Cog" during the Steampunk Music Listening Party.
- Tearing it up for the crowds during our acoustic set outside the Mechanical Masquerade on Sunday night. Yes, Renfield and I both ended up playing our instruments on the floor like manic toddlers discovering pots and pans for the first time, why do you ask?
- Seeing new fans singing along with our music after only seeing us for only 1.5 shows.
- Getting to debut our first music video for "The Vagabond" on Dragon Con TV.
