Granny's Vanilla Sammies | Big Recipe

Ingredients

• ***For the vanilla cookies:***
• 2/3 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 vanilla beans, scraped
• 1 egg
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon bitter almond extract, optional, can substitute 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ***For the vanilla cream filling:***
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar