Dreidel Sandwiches Recipes

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Divide dough in half; shape each into a disk. Cover and refrigerate until firm enough to roll, at least 1 hour., Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 4-in. dreidel cutter. Place half the cutouts 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; top with candy bar pieces. Top with remaining cutouts, pinching edges to seal., Bake until bottoms are light brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely., Tint 2/3 cup frosting light blue. Spread remaining white frosting over cookies. Pipe 1 Hebrew letter on each cookie.

Steps:

• Cut the uncoated part of the biscuit sticks off and discard. Insert the cut-end of the biscuit sticks into the marshmallows, making sure the sticks go almost to the top of the marshmallows. Arrange the marshmallows on to a baking sheet lined with parchment.
• Put the white candy melts in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 15 second intervals, stirring, until completely melted, about 1 minute. Spread a small amount on the flat bottom of a kiss-shaped chocolate candy and attach to the top of a marshmallow. Hold for 10 seconds to help adhere. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows and kiss-shaped chocolate candies. Reserve the remaining melted white candy melts for later.
• Cover the marshmallows loosely with plastic wrap and freeze for 1 hour. After 1 hour, put the blue candy melts into a second small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 15 second intervals, stirring, until completely melted, about 1 minute.
• Remove the marshmallows from the freezer. Working over a large baking sheet (this will make clean up easier) use the biscuit stick as a handle and carefully dip a marshmallow into the blue candy melt mixture until completely coated, lightly shaking away any excess coating. Sprinkle the outside with a generous amount of sanding sugar. Place the coated marshmallow back onto the baking sheet and repeat with the remaining marshmallows. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so that the coating completely sets.
• Once the marshmallows are completely set, re-melt the white candy melts in the microwave then spoon into a small resealable plastic bag. Cut a very small opening in the corner of the bag and pipe Hebrew letters onto 1 to 3 sides of each dreidel. Refrigerate for until the lettering sets, about 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until smooth. Add the sugar and mix. Add the egg and mix. Add the molasses and vanilla and mix. Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves together. Working in batches, and mixing just until combined after each addition, add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture. Shape the dough into a thick disk, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours.
• Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 1 or 2 sheet pans. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out 1/4-inch thick.
• Icing decorations:
• Stir the confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla together until smooth.
• To make snowflakes:
• Use a snowflake-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make the holes in the dough about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Using only white icing and a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe thin lines from the center of the cookie out to the points, like spokes of a wheel. Connect the spokes with thin lines in between them, making a spiderweb effect to make it look like a snowflake. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string or yarn for hanging.
• To make dreidel trios:
• Use a dreidel cookie cutter and cut out 3 cookies. Lay 1 on a greased sheet pan. Fanning out at an angle, with the handles overlapping at the top, lay 2 more dreidels next to the first one (it will look like a paper-doll effect). The handle is now 3 layers thick; press on it gently to thin it slightly and make it larger. Repeat with the remaining dough, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make a hole in the handle about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the hole will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Color some of your icing blue with food coloring, or use blue colored sugar and white icing together. Using a pastry bag fitted with a small plain tip, pipe Hebrew letters or stars of David on the cookies' faces. Sprinkle the sugar on the icing while the icing is still wet. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.
• To make ornaments:
• Use any holiday-themed cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make holes in the dough about 1/8 inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Meanwhile, color some of your icing in festive colors with food coloring, or use colored sugars. Using a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe a few colorful borders and decorations on the cookies. When set, add more lines of icing in white. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.

Steps:

• Push the pretzel sticks into the tops of the marshmallows.
• Melt the white candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave at 30-second intervals. Use some to "glue" a chocolate kiss onto the other end of each marshmallow.
• Arrange the marshmallow sticks on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze 15 minutes.
• Remelt the white candy melts, then dip the dreidels to fully cover. Return to the baking sheet and freeze until set, 10 minutes. Pipe Hebrew letters using melted blue candy melts.

Steps:

• Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
• Combine the butter and sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and mix on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and mix in the egg and vanilla and almond extracts until just incorporated. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until just combined.
• Remove two-thirds of the dough, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Add the food coloring to the dough in the mixer and mix on low speed until no streaks remain. Wrap in plastic wrap and flatten into a disc about 1/2 inch thick; freeze for 20 minutes.
• Barely roll out the blue dough on a lightly floured surface just until even. Dip a 1 3/4-inch dreidel cookie cutter in flour and stamp out as many cookies as possible, rerolling the scraps, until no blue dough remains (if the dough gets too soft, return it to the freezer). Brush the tops of the dreidels with water and stack them on top of each other, pressing lightly to adhere and lining them up perfectly. Make 3 or 4 stacks so that they don't fall over. Transfer the stacks to a plate and freeze for 10 minutes.
• Remove the stacks from the freezer and lay them on their sides. Brush the adjoining ends of each stack with water and press them together, creating one long dreidel-shaped stack for the center of the cookies.
• Roll one-quarter of the uncolored dough into a log the length of the dreidel stack, with a 1-inch diameter, then cut it in half lengthwise. Brush each half with water and press into the space on either side along the dreidel handle. Roll out a skinnier log of uncolored dough the length of the dreidel stack, brush with water and place it along the top of the dreidel handle, pressing to connect it to the first two strips of uncolored dough. Freeze until all the pieces stick together and the dough is very firm, about 5 minutes.
• Remove the stack from the freezer and press the remaining uncolored dough around the sides, rolling the log a bit to round out the shape, brushing with water if needed to adhere. Return to the freezer for 5 minutes.
• Pour the sprinkles into a shallow bowl or plate long enough to hold the log of dough.
• Remove the dough from the freezer, brush with water, then roll in the sprinkles, pressing to adhere if necessary. Freeze for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment.
• Transfer the frozen dough log to a cutting board and use a sharp knife to slice it 1/4 inch thick. Place the cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets and bake, rotating halfway through, until just starting to brown on the bottom, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheets then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Microwave the white chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl at 70% power, stirring every 10 seconds, until melted, about 30 seconds total. Transfer to a piping bag and cut off the very tip to pipe a thin line of white chocolate.
• Pipe one of the following letters from the Hebrew alphabet on the dreidels: נ‎ (nun), ג‎ (gimel), ה‎ (hei) and ש‎ (shin). Let sit at room temperature until the chocolate sets, 20 to 30 minutes.