Button Cookies (Cream Wafers)

we make these around christmas almost every year. rolling out the dough can be labor intensive but very worth it.

• Ready In: 1 hr 7 mins
• Yields: 20 cookies or so

Ingredients

• Cookie Dough

• 1  cup butter, softened
• 2  cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup  whipping cream

• Filling

• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
•  food coloring (optional)

Directions

1. Mix together the dough ingredients, cover, chill.
2. Roll dough thin onto a floured dishcloth. Don't wait for it to get warm or it doesn't work.
3. Cut into circles about 1 1/2 inch diameter.
4. Dip circles in sugar and poke with a fork 4 times (its what makes them look like buttons!).
5. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes.
6. Mix together the filling and fill 2 cookies to make sandwiches - putting the pan sides together.