These cookies were first introduced to me by my roommates which I lived with for only a few short months after graduation (fun times!). The recipe was published in the Martha Stewart magazine in her monthly column, "cookie of the month". Whenever I make these cookies I get tons of compliments and I have family and friends that request them. For the longest time I didn't know the name of these cookies, because I had just jotted down the recipe as cookie of the month. So when my family requests them they ask me to make them a batch of cookies of the month, which cracks me up.
The recipe says to bake them for 4 minutes and to take them out and tap the tray to "flatten" the cookie and then put back in the oven. I baked mine on Pampered Chef cookie tray stones so I skipped the tapping step. I did take them out and rotate them though at 4 minutes. If you do take them out of the oven to tap them and are using a baking stone do NOT drop the tray on the floor! **Little story here - I was over at my mom's and we were baking these cookies of the month. I watched as she took her pampered chef stone tray out of the oven and dropped it on the floor, she picks it back up and does it again. This time the tray cracks and breaks. I am cracking up at her misfortune as I ask her what she was doing. She replied, I was tapping them on the floor to flatten them like the recipe says because I didn't have any counterspace. LOL!!
After I baked the cookies I let them cool completely on a wire rack.
Once the cookies were cooled I filled them with the butter cream icing. For the chocolate butter cream I simply took half of the prepared butter cream icing and added a 1/2 cup of cocoa and an extra tablespoon of milk to keep it creamy.
