The holidays are a time for digging out traditional family recipes and rediscovering recipes that you forgot you loved. This cookie is one that is quite old, but fell from favor I think, because it's a couple more steps of labor involved.
You have to make dough, cut them out, prick them with a fork, bake and then make a frosting filling to sandwich them together. Well worth the effort but many people stopped making cookies from 'scratch' so perhaps this seems as if it's not worth it.
It is.
Cream Wafers
1 c butter
1/3 c whipping cream (liquid form yet)
2 c flour
Mix and chill dough 1 hour. Preheat oven to 375. Roll the dough 1/8" thick. Cut into 1 1/2" rounds. Transfer to wax paper with sugar and coat both sides. Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and prick with a fork. Bake 7-8 minutes. Let cool completely.
Sandwich the cookies together with this filling:
1/4 c butter, soft
3/4 c powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
1 t vanilla
tint to the colors you wish.
Cooling after baking...