Oozy Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies

Holy crap.

Okay, so not only was The 4th Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap sign up date announced yesterday, but I have one mother of a cookie recipe for you today. Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies. In fact, we should hereby proclaim this Saturday, #CookieSaturday.

Now you all know I don’t bake… Much. But when I do, it usually involves a butt load of fresh seasonal fruit or some kind of oozy caramel concoction. Because fruit makes the processed white flour and sugar okay (somehow, I’m sure) and caramel makes life okay. And by okay, I mean ridiculously, orgasmically decadent.

And isn’t that just what life should be all about?

Do you think you can you ever have too much caramel? I’m positive the Diabetes Association would say so. And dentists everywhere. And sure, I’ve definitely made my own Boozy Dulce De Leche (obviously) and stolen Cinnamon Sugar Cookies with Caramel Drizzle and Sea Salt from this chick, AND even broadcasted about my burnt sugar obsession on my podcast, but even after all that, I still haven’t had my fill. Which is why I was so stoked when Gibbs-Smith sent me a copy of Carole Bloom‘s most recent cookbook, Caramel.

…Just try to convince me that cover doesn’t make you have some kind of wanton, physical reaction. I dare you.

The recipes in this cookbook were easy enough to follow, the directions laid out nicely step by step. For such detail, I only wish there was an estimated time for each recipe. I throw a lot of dinner parties and planning a menu - and executing that menu with expert precision - quite often comes down to timing. I realize Carole might not have been writing for the time-minded individual but even I (someone who hand-makes pasta and Italian bolognese from scratch) am cognizant of the time-sensitivity contingent. Not every day is homemade pasta and scratch Italian bolognese day, just like not every day is caramel day. But damn, when it is, I’d like to have an approximation of how many minutes, hours or days my recipe will take.

So let’s get back to the good stuff: Oozy Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies.

I wish I could lay claim to this recipe. Oh how do I. To that recipe and the other 64 cupcakes, tartlets, cookies, mousses, candies, and ice creams that are caramel laden and laced in ways that I had never even dreamed of.

That being said, in the interest of good journalism, I have to be honest; The cookies themselves weren’t as exciting as I’d hoped. The Dulce de Leche? Hells yeah. That stuff was drooled over, sucked and polished off faster than… Well, you get the idea. When it comes to dessert, I want each and every aspect of the dish to blow my mind. The cookies though seemed to be a mere vehicle for the sauce, rather than a treat in their own right. So I forewent (is that a word?) the cookies and just used a spoon. Because any day I can cuddle up to and spoon with caramel is a good day.

…Just ask my ass. Which, thanks to Carole’s book, is getting happier (and unarguably larger) since obtaining this book.

Happy #CookieSaturday to you, my friends.

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