poppy seed sandwich cookies.

i still have no internet available at home (tilll wednesday!) which would explain the long hiatus in blogging. devoid of pretty things and eventful days i have picked up baking with a vengeance once again, and this time using my favorite poppy seeds.

i bring you poppy seed sandwich cookies.

these are very simple in conception: a nice plain-ish cookie, sandwiched with filling of your choice. this was off 101cookbooks, which by the way is a blog that inspires me to cook a lot healthier and try out new and alternative flours etc., and was a simple cut-out cookie recipe with a simple melted chocolate filling.

mix up the easy batter, which came out very easily, chill it for at least half hour, cut out the shapes, and bake till golden brown. how much easier do you expect it to get?

i didn't deviate from her recipe because it looked so good and had just the right amount of poppy seeds: not so many that you couldn't enjoy the speckled look, but not so few that you didn't know they were there.

after baking and cooling, leave those pretty cookies on a plate and bring out your jar of nutella.

oh come on, you know you have one in the cupboard.

i used the jar of nutella i had as a filling so that i wouldn't keep eating eat it right out of the jar. heidi on 101 uses melted chocolate which i think would work great as well, but i haven't found anything that quite takes away the place nutella has in my heart.

and be generous with it.

place as much as you can without the nutella oozing out. although if it does, you could always just lick it off your hands.

when you have cookies this pretty, you almost don't want to eat them. almost.

i gave these away as a housewarming gift for a friend, and it was finished in 10 minutes. don't doubt the power of nutella.