Mouth Watering Vanilla Cream Sandwich Cookies with Chocolate Filling

Oh oh oh!  This is...what can I say... it sends endorphins to my brain.  This is something I know I won't make except on special occasions because it would just be too hard to not eat them all and get sick.  They are rich, creamy, the kind of thing that makes your eyes roll into the back of your head and you get a delightful shock that goes through your taste buds down to your tummy.  It is heavenly good.  Ok, ok... I know I am running on here, but oh my! I just don't know how to describe them!  I am so thankful for the taste buds God gave me and the delightful foods He gave us to enjoy, and this is one of those pleasures He gave that makes you just know Heaven has got to be wonderful.  I'm not exaggerating!

This is the way they hit my taste buds... I'm just sayin'.  I came home from work dead tired, after chasing a room full of 12 to 18 month olds around, and though they are really truly delightful and fun and cute, I know why God gives us children when we are young.  At 57, 4 hours of that is about all I can handle.  And those cute little kiddie songs go through my head in my sleep now.  But baking cookies really was the last thing on my mind when I got home.  Taking a good long nap was actually what I was longing for.  But I was looking through my recipes, none-the-less, (that is what I do in my spare time), and I got an idea and I'm glad I did.

So I made them, and was revived.  I think they sort of brought out the kid in me. :)

So here they are...


               Vanilla Cream and Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

                        Cookies
1/2 cup  butter, softened
1/4 cup  Torani (or DaVinci) vanilla flavored SF syrup
12 packets  Truvia (or sweetener equal to 1/2 cup sugar in sweetening power)
1/4 cup  xylitol
1 large  egg
2 teaspoons  vanilla
1 1/2 cups  almond flour, (Honeyville is what I use)
2 tablespoons  coconut flour
1 teaspoon  baking powder
1/4 teaspoon  salt
                        Filling
1/3 cup  heavy cream
6 packets  Truvia
8 squares  Lindt 85% Cocoa Bar -- chopped into small pieces

Cookies:  In a medium mixing bowl add butter, vanilla sugar free syrup, Truvia, xylitol, egg, and vanilla.  Beat with electric mixer on low until creamed together.

Add the almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder and salt and beat again until it is well blended.

Drop by 1 Tbs fulls on parchment lined cookie sheet and flatten with the back of a spoon sprayed with non-stick spray.

Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 15 to 18 minutes and cool on the pan.

Filling: Add heavy cream to a small saucepan over medium heat.  Add 6 packets of Truvia.  Bring just to a simmer, stirring.  Remove from heat and add the Lindt 85% Cocoa Bar and stir with a wire whisk until well blended and smooth.

Spread on a cookie and top with another cookie.
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11 sandwich cookies (Per Serving): 211 Calories; 23g Fat (77.6% calories from fat); 4g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber

NOTES : 3 net g carbs per cookie