It was my turn to come up with a challenge for the Home Baker’s Collective. Nabisco made these cookies when I was a kid. We would go to Food Town on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, NJ and buy a few boxes of them. Inevitably we would crack open a box on the car ride home and each of us would get our own cardboard box full of these delicious marshmallow treats. I mixed a few recipes and even modified the Serious Eat’s pop tart recipe to try to get the cookie right. It is still not there. But oh, so close. If anyone out there remembers these cookies and has a better idea for the cookie part, please let me know.
INGREDIENTS
Cookies
113 g cold cubed butter
110 g all-purpose flour
30 g whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
85 g corn syrup
45 g honey
Marshmallow Filling
4 teaspoons gelatin
1/2 cup water, divided
1/2 cup light corn syrup, divided
9 ounces granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Assembly
½ cup Apricot Jam
2 tablespoons water
DIRECTIONS
Cookies
With your fingers, cut butter into flour, along with salt, until reduced to pea sized lumps. Next, add corn syrup and honey all at once and mix with a fork until it forms a ball. Dust your hands with a little flour, scoop out the dough, and knead lightly until smooth.
Flatten dough into a squarish shape, wrap in plastic, and chill at least 30 minutes. Or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove dough from refrigerator and let it warm up just a bit. Roll to 1/8” thick. Use a round cookie cutter to make circles and place them on parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 10 minutes until just turning color. You don’t want to brown them.
Remove from sheet and let cool. While you make the marshmallow.
Marshmallow
Bloom gelatin by placing 1/4 cup water in small bowl and sprinkle gelatin over top. Let sit at least 5 minutes to soften.
Place 1/4 cup corn syrup in standing mixer bowl. Place remaining 1/4 cup corn syrup remaining 1/4 cup water, and sugar in medium saucepan over medium-high heat until dissolved. Continue to cook, without stirring, until mixture reaches 240 degrees F (use a thermometer). Immediately pour hot syrup down side of mixer bowl and add softened gelatin and vanilla. Turn mixer to medium speed and beat until combined, about 1 minute. Increase speed to medium high and beat until light and fluffy, about 7-8 minutes.
Assembly
Add water to apricot jam to pot and heat until it thins out. Spread thin layer on each cookie half. Line them up and pipe marshmallow filling on one half and then place 2nd cookie on top. Do not push down. Gravity will do the work. Let them dry out on some parchment for a couple hours.
Commandatore Of The Kitchen 
Great minds marshmallow alike! These cookies look so tasty, and quite a bit less messy to eat than my Brazilian ones. Totally user-friendly, my Dad would approve!
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I remember these cookies oh so well, they were absolutely delicious I’m going to try you’re recipe and see how it turns out. Thank you so much,
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I was addicted to these cookies as a kid in the 80s
The thing about these cookies is the cookie itself tasted exactly like one of those “nilla wafers” thag is still sold today. the difference is while a nilla wafer is crunchy and hard the texture of this cookie was like 60% softer.
The marshmellow in the center in contrast was like harder and more firm then a regular marshmellow and held the two parts of the cookie together like glue.
I strongly disagree with the other poster who said they had apricot in the center. There was absolutely no apricot, it was a firm marshmallow.
I have no idea how they did it.
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OMG! I remember those delicious cookies from my childhood. Why did Nabisco discontinue them? And for the record, they did have apricot jam in a thin layer holding the two vanilla wafers together. The cookies came in a box with wax paper lining. No plastic, the wax paper was as good a part of the packaging as the cookies were delicious. Wish Nabisco would bring them back- with the same packaging. One can only hope!
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Absolutely the best cookie in the entire world!
I’m heart broken that they have been discontinued. I would pay any amount of money, for these cookies. My childhood was the best ever, all because of these cookies.
Dear Nabisco please bring them back . Life will be so much better if we can just all have a box of these cookies in our lunch boxes sincerely B. Tarver 💕
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I loved those cookies. My Mom ate them as a child too! I wish they’d bring them back.
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I just thought about these and am so sorry they’re no longer made. Shame on you Nabisco! Need some good old fashioned cookies!
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Every day after school I used to run to the corner store not to get candy but to get this package of cookies that was so delicious What a memory I have of eating these cookies everyday after school when all my friends were eating candy
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I cheat & less work. I buy the vanilla “wafer” cookies cut a regular marshmallow in half. I little raspberry jelly, will have to try apricot, on each cookie than marshmallow & zap in microwave, 20-30 seconds. Cookies gets soft.
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Why did you stop making them? One a a very few cookie I liked
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I also grew up eating these delicious cookies. I use to open them up and eat the marshmallow first, then eat the cookies with the apricot jelly. Mmm. Wish I had one now. Bring them back please!
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