Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches with Raspberry Mascarpone

A sandwich cookie, or a sandwich biscuit, is a cookie made from two cookies with a filling between them. Many types of fillings are used, such as cream, ganache, buttercream, chocolate, cream cheese, jam, peanut butter, lemon curd, or ice cream.

Ingredients

• 100g unsalted melted butter
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 100g light brown soft sugar
• 1 large egg
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 100g flour blend
• 75g almend flour
• 3 tbsp sugar-free chocolate powder
• 75g demerara sugar , to coat
• 175g mascarpone cheese
• 85g raspberry puree

Preparation

1. Put the butter, sugars, egg and vanilla extract in a large bowl and mix with an electric or a manual whisk until smooth.
2. Mix the remaining ingredients in a separate bowl.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix until form a sticky dough.
4. Cover with cling film and chill for a couple of hours.
5. In a pre-heated oven, line two baking trays with baking paper.
6. Roll the cookie dough into balls, then place them on the lined trays.
7. Leave some space between cookies.
8. Bake for about 15 mins.
9. Allow cooling on the trays for 10 mins before the filling step.
10. For the filling, beat together the mascarpone cheese and raspberry purree in a bowl until smooth and creamy.
11. Keep in the fridge for an hour.
12. Transfer to a piping bag and pipe a layer of the cream onto the base of half the cookies and sandwich together with the other half.
13. Topped each cookie sandwich with a raspberry (optional).
14. Enjoy.