Molasses Date Sandwich Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 2/3 cup salted butter

  softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar

  packed
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 1 tsp. ground cloves
• 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
• 2/3 cup buttermilk

  or soured milk (see directions below)
• 2 cups chopped dates
• 16 oz. can vanilla frosting

Instructions

• 1 Cream butter, sugars, egg, molasses, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, salt,
  ginger, cinnamon, ground cloves and buttermilk.
• 2 Slowly mix in flour until incorporated.
• 3 Stir in dates with a wooden spoon.
• 4 Mixture will be sticky.
• 5 Scoop cookie dough with a large cookie scoop and press dough firmly into scoop.
• 6 Place cookie dough onto greased baking sheets or baking sheets sprayed with
  cooking spray.
• 7 Bake at 350° for 18-19 minutes.
• 8 Rotate cookie sheets on racks every nine minutes while baking.
• 9 Allow cookies to cool completely before adding icing.
• 10 Transfer to wire cooling racks.
• 11 Spread a few tablespoonfuls of icing on the bottom of one cookie and top with
  another cookie of similar shape and size. 

Nutrition Info