Spice Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Spice Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting – The combination of spice cake and creamy frosting will take you back to cookies at Grandma’s house!
Spice Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
About a week or so ago (I’m being all casual like I’m not sure, but trust me when I say that the date is forever etched in my memory), a cashier at the grocery store asked how far along I was.
WHAT THE WHAT.
The thing is, I know I don’t have my prebaby body back. The fact that my jeans won’t button and I have to basically pull a Macgyver maneuver to even think about wearing them makes that abundantly clear.
However.
I guess since I know that I was pregnant, and I have my pre-birth comparison to keep in mind, I didn’t think I looked that bad. But apparently to innocent bystanders, I look like a pregnant person.
I didn’t have Lucy with me at the time, and I awkwardly told the woman that I actually had a baby already and was no longer pregnant. Here was her chance to quickly think of something to somehow salvage the situation.
But this is what happened instead–
(seriously, I think that she went to the same Wrong Things to Say School that my husband graduated from with a Master’s Degree)
she stammered, “Oh…It’s just that I saw a bit of roundness and assumed…well. Aren’t babies so fun?”
There was really no good way to end that whole conversation. I just kind of stared at her and walked away, wishing it was possible to evaporate and rain back down as a thin person who is excellent at punching people and not getting arrested.
Anyways.
Ever since that day, I have been obsessing constantly. My husband now hates that woman, because she has ruined any chance he had at sanity for at least the next decade.
But in my defense, it’s not every day that a stranger approaches you and blatantly calls you fat. And obviously, I could probably diet or do some type of exercise to help the situation (is exercise still trendy? Can we make something else popular instead? Like books or television?), but cookies taste so good and dang it I GET HUNGRY. Do you KNOW how many calories breastfeeding burns?
In honor of my baby belly that isn’t a baby belly but still looks like one, I made cookies. Cookies for everyone!
Except for grocery store lady. She gets a celery milkshake. Gross.
Spice cake with cream cheese frosting is one of my favorite things. It tastes like Grandma’s house and cold weather and I just love it.
Don’t you?
I realize that these Spice Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are kinda brown and plain, but don’t let that deter you.
Sometimes the ugliest desserts are the yummiest and these are no exception. I absolutely LOVED them and will be making them often.
Ingredients
- 1 box Spice Cake mix
- 8 oz block cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 8 oz block cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- In the bowl of a mixer, combine one block of cream cheese and 1 stick of butter. Beat on medium until smooth. Add egg and beat, then add cake mix until a smooth thick dough forms. Cover and chill for about two hours.
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray baking sheets with nonstick spray or line with parchment paper. Using a small cookie scoop, scoop dough out into one inch balls. Roll in powdered sugar, then place on prepared baking sheets and flatten slightly with your hand.
- Bake for about 7 minutes, until edges are set but middles are still soft. Remove cookies to cooling rack to cool completely.
- Prepare frosting: In the bowl of a mixer, beat butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar, beating on low until just combined. Increase speed to high and beat for about a minute, until frosting is light and fluffy. Turn cookies over to the bottom flat side. Spread with frosting and top with flat side of another cookie.
Enjoy and have a Happy New Year!!
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I totally hear you. I squeezed my way into a pair of jeans for NYE, and all I wanted to do all night was go back home and put my pj pants back on. Give me about a dozen of these cookies!!
Did you know that spice cake is one of my favorite things in the entire world???? I must make these!
First….these cookies are going in my “MUST MAKE IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE I’LL BE ABLE TO THINK OF NOTHING ELSE” list.
Second…I SO remember this happening to me. At the hair salon. Unfortunately, those shapeless jumper dresses were in style (or at least I *thought* they were), which only made matters worse. Walking to the hair washing station…her: “So, how far along are you?” Me: “My baby is 6 months old.” Her: “Well, 9 months on, 9 months off.” Me: “He was born 10 weeks early.” Aaaaand, dead silence for the rest of the haircut. Good times.
Wow. I’m surprised she even scored a celery milkshake. I would have given her a warm mug of ‘please shut your pie hole’ and that’s it. But for serious, don’t be so hard on yourself! Your cookies are gorgeous, your baby girl is gorgeouser and you are one lovely mama. With spice cake! I’m pretty sure you can skip the MacGuyver moves and take over the universe.
I could easily eat a dozen of these cookies! Love!
I had a baby at the end of August and a chick my husband works with rubbed my post baby tummy at the company Christmas party. She’s lucky she had had a few too many or she would be missing a few teeth. Talk about awkward. I didn’t like people touching my belly when I was pregnant!
How rude! And I know a few people that have graduated from Wrong Things to Say School too!
Happy new year!
I had the same thing happen to me at target only I actually had my 1 week old in her stroller !!! When she asked how far along I was I gave her a dumbfounded mixed with anger look and pointed to the stroller and proceeded to tell her uhhhh I just had a baby last week to which she replies oh well at least she is only a week old its not like she’s a month old !!!! Huh rude !!! That was 4 Years ago and that will forever be etched in my mind !!!
I’ll punch her for ya.
I’m going to guess that the reason she felt so comfortable bringing it up is because you have a kind face. There’s the silver lining :)
Ummm…that girl is wack. My momma taught me never to ask a lady if she’s pregnant unless she tells you first. Don’t fret, cookies are your friend!
Oh yeesh! I once got mistaken for being pregnant and I’ve never had any children so I have no excuse for a “post-pregnancy” body! It was mostly just an incredibly unflattering shirt which I obviously burned the moment I got home.
You should have said, “9 months”, how far along are YOU? Then she would feel all awkward and also jealous because you are a tiny for 9 months along. There’s always a way.
Cookies from cake mix are the besty best! And cream cheese anything is ok with me!
I had someone at work poke my stomach and say “looks like someone’s preggo!” This was way before I was ever pregnant, I had just gained a bunch of weight (which I attribute to having to deal with people like that at work every day).
Just to make sure my dough is the right consistency, how many ounces was your cake mix? I’d hate to mess up something as yummy as these!
You should have said ” my baby is a month old….when are YOU due?” I had a similar experience when I was at the grocery store with my four young kids (10 to 5 yrs.) and the check out lady asked me (on a day I thought I looked rather cute…): ” so you have all the grand kids today?” WHAT??????? WHAT????? WHAT???? I had even showered and put make up on….sheesh…
I love all cookies with frosting in the middle…like a little piece of layer cake :). Yummy!
I think this has happened to every woman at some time in her life. I was mistaken for being pregnant when my youngest was about three. That’s years. Not months. She turned 25 last month and I still haven’t lost the baby weight. :o|
Can you imagine how all those (uber skinny) stars feel when their photo is plastered on the cover of every magazine with the giant words “_______’s baby bump” slapped across it?! Yikes!
Um, I would not have been so nice to that lady… but these cookies do sound fantastic. I was all set to diet but now I’m re-thinking that!
I feel your pain. Someone asked me the same question, about 5 months post-birth. I may or may not have gone straight home and cried my eyes out. That being said, give yourself a break. Everything will eventually migrate back to where it’s supposed to be.
In the meantime, I would happily eat a plateful of these cookies.
Cookies that taste like Grandma’s house is exactly how I would cope with a rude sales person (well and just about anything else I need a good grandma hug for)!
hahaha wow that girl did NOT know how to recover from that one. i would’ve thrown whatever groceries i had in my basket at her face and started crying. orrrr just walk out of the store. anyway – hold your head up high! you’re gorgeous and i’m positive you’ll lose whatever “baby weight” you have left! don’t stress over it – you’re a MOM! i’d like to see that young lady post pregnancy ;) these spice cake sandwich cookies look DIVINE!
Mmmmm…I love this idea! I think they are so pretty and old-fashioned-looking! I am going to convert this to gluten-free (I have Celiac). That lady deserves her celery milkshake with a blue-green-algae-kale chaser!
Wow, and her reply was just wrong wrong wrong. These cookies though look amazing!
Ohhh my..I can just picture your face …LOL
I am sure you look perfectly beautiful!
Love your cookies, Kristan! Definitely a must try. “She” totally deserves the celery milkshake ;)
Never mind grocery store lady…she put her foot in it..what’s important is that you grew a beautiful healthy baby and you come up with amazing goodies to eat!! I have just spent the last few hours (hours!!) going through the archives and marking a zillion things to try…maybe because I just found your blog and I just went back on Weight Watchers in honor of New Years lol. I happen to be ravenously hungry and being a baker doesn’t help. Maybe I should go into organic vegetable farming as a hobby instead of baking…but my sweet tooth wouldn’t like that much. Well your blog is awesome, and I have at least 50 recipes to try from here now lol. Happy New Year!!
How rude of her to say anything. If you don’t really know…keep it shut! On the other hand, these look amazing!!!
I love a good spice cake so these being brown wouldn’t deter me!! They are so cute!!
Oh goodness, that is rough. You’re right, no way to recover from that conversation. And yes, cookies are always the answer :)
We were doing our taxes last year when some old last who worked there asked me when I was due while I was holding my baby. And then after I finally got the words out to say I wasn’t pregnant, I gave birth 6 months ago and she just stared at me and kind of smile and nodded at me, only minus the smile, and that was it. Most awkward thing ever. So don’t feel bad, some people just don’t think before speaking.
So I was so worried about this exact thing after birth. Well, because dear MIL made a dumb comment about my belly IN THE HOSPITAL. Anyway, I started dieting in the hospital, my baby suffered because I never made enough milk, and I suffered because I made my life miserable. A dr. finally (about 6 months later) set me down and said not to worry about it. Your internal body parts don’t even get to where they’re “normal” for at least a year. Unless your some star with nothing to do and lots of money for trainers, get your body back at minimum takes a year.
My advice, take it easy on yourself. Don’t worry about the appearance stuff yet, there’s more important things…you and your baby.
Celery milkshake…HA…I almost just spit my coffee everywhere.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been asked numerous times if I’m expecting, and I have never had a child..nor am I overweight in the least. People never cease to amaze me.
These look so good! Hey don’t get upset about rude comments… It takes 9 months to put tat weight on and ufortunately it will take some time to takeit off…people get their post pregnancy body shape ideas from tv and magizines..on soap operas et once they have the baby after being pregnant for 3 weeks they are instantly transformed to their skeletal self … in magizines celebrities are aid huge money to exercise with a personal trior and diet with a nutritionist who shops and cooks for tem… so yeah, I bet if you had that your body would look picture perfect in 3 months too.. Don’t stress and youwill be fine, it will come off more slowly than you want bt it wil come off
Same thing happened to me when my second daughter was 3 weeks old. She was at home with Grandma and a lady at the store asked me how far along I was. I told her my daughter was 3 weeks old and she looked so embarrassed and started to apologize. I wan’t upset at all and you shouldn’t be either! Of course you still have “a bit of roundness” – it takes several months for the baby pooch to go away.
Sorry for the lack of typing skills …it was like reading in code
isn’t there some sort of unspoken rule that you NEVER EVER comment on a woman’s size?! If i were you, I would have burst into tears just to drive the point home.
Oh, dude. I have had that happen. I used to actually be skinny, but then I had a child and that ruined everything. One lady asked me when I was due and I actually felt bad FOR HER, so I tried to salvage the situation by saying “Oh, no, I’m not pregnant. I just had a baby!”
But then the stupid jerk asked how old the baby was.
8 months, I replied. Then I died of shame and never ever went back to that store again.
I fully believe that you do not comment on a pregnancy unless you personally put that child in a woman’s uterus, you know?
People are just stupid! I am sure you look awesome!
And when in doubt, cookies always help!
Your experience is a classic illustration of the difference between a girl and a woman. You, my dear, are a beautiful woman with a loving husband and two adorable children God has given you. Hold your head high. You just met a girl. That’s all.
My daddy always taught us to never say anything about a woman being pregnant unless you could actually see a baby emerging from her body.
Those look so yummy. I’ll bet your kitchen smelled sweet!
I don’t think these are ugly, who ever cares about what cream cheese filling looks like we are all imagining how awesome they taste. To make you feel slightly better, my Granddad said the same thing to the woman in the hospital bed next to my mum, but she’d given birth a week earlier. The woman looked at him and just pulled the curtain across. That was 26 years ago and he still feels bad about it today.
Yeah, somebody’s mama didn’t raise them right. I can’t believe she didn’t even apologize. I am the world’s worst at snappy comebacks too, mostly because I can’t believe my ears at what the rude person is actually saying.
I hope you don’t obsess too much about the weight. You are beautiful inside and out (trust me, I’ve seen you with my own eyeballs) and people are just, ignorant.
xo
PS – I love brown cookies.
PPS – I super love brown cookies with cream cheesy goodness squished in the middle.
I had a baby girl almost the same time as your little baby and I just want you to know that I feel ya. Granted it is my 4th but I still feel like I have that baby belly thing going on. It takes a year for me to go back to normal and the first 6 months are so the worst. But really I can’t think about exercising while I am this sleep deprived. Maybe in a few months, until then I am going to follow your lead and make some cookies!
Clearly that woman was not a mother. Keep the cookies coming. These look amazing!
I saw the top picture of your post and I was so inspired. I wanted to make these cookies and eat them right now! But then I saw they were made with a cake mix. Now I have to go and look up a spice cake mix recipe….too much for for 9:00 pm.
Hahahah about the lady. I haven’t had that happen to me yet, but I’m sure it will. LOL
Girl, once upon a time I was much bigger and worked at Starbucks and customers would come in all the time and ask how far along I was.
Yeah. Self esteem = down the crapper.
Now that I’ve had a baby I think I’d handle it much better than in my single-lady days ;) And I’m sure you look absolutely fabulous!
My daughter is 11 weeks old and a couple of weeks ago I had a lady ask me when I was due WHILE I had the stroller RIGHT next to me! “I told her, Um, I have a newborn, she’s 6 weeks old in the stroller and despite that, my stomach is still flatter than yours.” In related news, I’ve decided I’m going tot ell people that my daughter is younger than she really is so people will tell me how great I look! I wonder if she can stay 8 weeks forever….
Okay I can imagine you were not pleased, but hey someone once asked me whether I was pregnant after I had just had a miscarriage…. Hm people can be thick.
On a much better note: these cookies look awesome!
I always love your recipes and the pictures you make are just gorgeous.
WHAT THE WHAT….oh my gracious! Insert your huge, giant, big foot now grocery lady! I say be proud of that little post baby belly. You and your body worked super hard to get there and soon it will be long gone. Especially with breast feeding. Hang in their sweet girl, you have the ultimate prize and she looks just like you! A little Miss Lucy!
Well, at least you had JUST HAD a baby, right? I’m currently pregnant and for the longest time I just look chubby (well, chubbier) before I really start to show. And it takes forever to lose that baby belly (if at all). Be comforted, though – there are those woman who are beyond having babies that get pegged for possibly being pregnant. When I was still little – but after my mom was done having babies – a man asked her how far along she was. She laughed and said it was leftovers from the holidays. The man had the decency to be extremely apologetic. :)
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Dang, thanks very much for posting this! It is gonna aid me when I order syrah at the grocery store! Super Awe Inspiring!