Betty Crocker White Chocolate Cutout Cookies

The Fourth Earl of Sandwich is credited with inventing the sandwich when he didn’t want to leave his card game. So, he asked for his roast beef to be served between two slices of bread so he could eat his meal with his hands. Would he have any idea that his simple idea would lead to all types of sandwiches, from a simple grilled cheese to an ice cream sandwich?

One of our sweet takes on a sandwich is two buttery-rich sugar cookies filled with white chocolate. To make it extra fun, simple shapes are cut from half of the cookies to be filled in with colorful sprinkles, nonpareils, or dragées. Add 3D effects by decorating the top cookie with cookie icing. It’s ooooh so pretty and festive.

These are not the first sandwich cookies to hit the world stage. Sandwich cookies take many forms. Consider the blue package of cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies that kids (maybe adults) twist to separate the cream from the cookie. Then there is the fancy Viennese linzer cookies made with a nut-rich dough and jam filling. The cookie is based on Austria’s linzer torte made with almost the same ingredients.

Sweet, savory, frozen, or hot, the world’s cuisine is indebted to the ingenious invention of the sandwich.