Stuffed Lemon Sugar Cookies

We were pondering what kind of cookies to make next when we spotted a box of Girl Scout Lemon Chalet Creme cookies hiding in the back of our pantry. Ah ha we thought! We'll make sugar cookies stuffed with a girl scout cookie. We first experimented with stuffed cookies with a peanut-butter patty version where we made a chocolate chip cookie dough and wrapped it around a full-sized peanut-butter patty cookie. They were so delicious that we decided to try it again but with a sugar cookie dough around lemon cookies. The Girl Scout Lemon Chalet Creme cookies are a vanilla cookie sandwich with a bright lemon creme filling, so we added lemon extract to the sugar cookie dough to heighten the lemony flavor. We adapted the Snappy Sugar Cookies recipe from Got Milk? book by halving the recipe. Refrigerating the dough for an hour makes it easier to form balls and wrap around the cookies. Double stuffed cookies add pizzazz to a normal sugar cookie and revitalize year-old (gasp!) Girl Scout cookies. Try your own variation!

Stuffed Lemon Sugar Cookies