I keep wheat germ at my house to make skinny granola–or “cookies in a jar” as I call it. Because it goes rancid quickly, I’ve been looking for more recipes requiring wheat germ. These cookies may be the answer.
The honey and lemon flavored dough is formed into balls and rolled in wheat germ. The interior is soft and chewy with a coarse exterior reminiscent of ground oatmeal.
Since I’m obsessed with frosted cookies, I mixed up some lemon filling and turned these into sandwich cookies. Adding powdered sugar to my microwave lemon curd made a delicious icing of rather firm consistency. I frosted the flat side of one cookie and made a sandwich with the flat side of another cookie.
If you want to check out the recipe, go see Flourchild or get a copy of Dorie’s fabulous cookbook, Baking-From My Home to Yours.
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Brilliant…. sandwich cookies in a jar. These look wonderful – and lemon filling is a perfect choice! Now, guess I should put my jar of germ in to the fridge!
Brilliant! Love the filling, they look great! I liked these pretty well, didn’t love them, but definitely liked them
These look so good! I’m going to have to try your microwave lemon curd.
You’re a genius! I had it in the back of my mind to spruce up these cookies but I never put it into action. Bravo! These look beautiful.
What beautiful photos. You really know how to elevate a humble cookie into something memorable.
Love the lemon filling. As usual we were split on these, while no totally disliked them, no one claimed them as a fav either.
Mimi
Im glad you enjoyed the cookies, they look great! Thank you for baking along with me this week.
I had not checked my blog post and just realized there was no spacing at all..I had to go back and edit it!
Makes we wonder, “Now why couldn’ t I think of that?” Fantastic.
These cookies are perfect for a filling so why didn’t I think of that? I love how yours turned out.
Lemon filling?!? You are an evil genius!
You consistently take a good recipe and turn it into something great! Delicious!
YES! Frosting is exactly what these needed. Brilliant!
Wow, these cookies look absolutely delicious…love the way that you assemble them. Nice pictures as well
You did exactly what I was thinking of — sandwich these little guys with citrus curd! Susan suggested I stop by, and I’m glad I did. Great cookies and great ideas!
Love these as sandwich cookies- genius!
What a great idea! Your lemon curd-based filling sounds wonderful, and the perfect thing to go with these cookies. And of course they look perfect too!
I love the lemon icing! Didn’t know wheatgerm goes rancid quickly – uh oh, need to think up what else to do with it.
Oh, you’re a genius. These cookies would be perfect with a filling, since they’re on the simple side. Good idea!
Were you in TWD when we made the Granola Grabbers? They had wheat germ and they were very tasty.
These definitely seem perfect for some kind of sammies—pb/honey, lemon filling–that sounds great to really bump up the the lemon flavor! Yum. I’d like one right now!
they sure are uniform n pretty! i never thought to fill these but now it makes so much sense, it should have been obvious. lol
silly me
I love that you made sandwich cookies! It does seem like a wonderful combination. I’m glad this recipe introduced me to wheat germ; I’m going to start sprinkling it in lots of things!
Lemon filling? Brilliant! They really look amazing.
now that’s a great idea! makes a good cookie even better–yum!
Shame on you. I was happy with myself for only making half a batch of these b/c I was finding that I was making far too many cups of tea as an excuse to have one of these cookies. NOW I see what you did and I want one of those really really badly! OMW you know how to take things over the top.