Speculative - La Pêche Fraîche

These cookies are wholly counterproductive.

Welcome to the first installation of uses for your homemade speculoos spread (other than ravaging it with a spoon).

Basically, we made cookies to make cookies.

Oh, my lyfe.

These cookies are similar to peanut butter cookies, but they use cookie butter (can we just appreciate that for a minute?) in lieu of the traditional nut butter.

They’re big and soft and they make perfect sandwich cookies when pressed together with some dark chocolate ganache.

I’m telling you, these are not gingersnaps.

Stop trying to make them gingersnaps in your head.

They’re not. I did it too. Trust me.

They’re more like lightly spiced peanut butter cookies.

Make them and you will appreciate this sentiment.

You will also be annoyed that you had to make cookies, grind them up, and then make cookies again. It’s worth it my dear.

(Also, any excuse to pull out my Swedish pearl sugar is worth it.

Let me just say how obsessed I am with this stuff. It’s like sprinkles. Addictive.

I actually prefer it over the larger, coarser Belgian pearl sugar, but you could theoretically coat these in the Belgian stuff, although it will add a lot more sweetness and crunch.

You could also sub regular or turbinado sugar, but you’ll get less crunch.

I’m starting to think you could also coat these in sprinkles and then you’d have sprinkle Biscoff cookies and whaaa that’s a trap I’m getting out okay bye.)

Biscoff Cookies
adapted from Baking Bites
makes 6 large sandwich cookies
ingredients:
4 ounces (8 tablespoons, 1/2 cup) butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
pinch each cinnamon, ground cloves, and ginger
scant 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup Biscoff (make your own!)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
swedish pearl sugar, or turbinado sugar, for rolling
for the ganache:
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
2 tablespoons heavy cream
directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Line 2 sheet pans with parchment paper.
Beat butter on high until fluffy and soft, about 1 minute.
Add in the sugars, spices, and the salt and beat on high until all of sugar is dissolved and mixture is very light in color and shiny and not-gritty in texture, about 3 minutes.
Scrape the sides of the bowl and add in the egg and vanilla extract.
Beat for 3 more minutes.
Scrape the sides of the bowl and add in the Biscoff and beat for 1 minute.
Scrape the sides of the bowl and add in the flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
Mix just until homogeneous, about 1 minute.
Using a large cookie scoop, or an ice cream scoop, scoop out 12 cookies.
Gently roll them in the pearl sugar, making sure to coat all parts of the cookie.
Bake for 9-10 minutes, until puffy.
They will look very underdone and will still be extremely soft in the middle; they will look somewhat uncooked in the very center.
Allow to cool on the sheet pans; the cookies will decompress and retain their softness, but the residual heat will ensure that they are not raw.
Once cooled, make the ganache.
Microwave the chocolate chips and cream together until the chips are mostly melted; do this in 30 second bursts.
Stir to combine and finish melting the chocolate.
Spread between two cookies and sandwich them!

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