What could be better than a perfectly spiced, luxuriously soft-textured, rich and molasses-y gingerbread? How about two pieces of gingerbread sandwiching a delicious layer of sweet vanilla frosting? That’s exactly what we did with Trader Joe’s Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies. Our supplier starts with soft-baked gingerbread cookies that are topped with coarse sugar crystals to give them some extra sweetness and a satisfying crunch. They then take two of those cookies and place in between them a generous layer of frosting made with butter, cream cheese, and real vanilla beans from Madagascar.

Let us put it this way: bite after bite, these Sandwich Cookies deliver on all fronts. Aromatically, you get all those nostalgia-invoking holiday spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and (of course) ginger. Texturally, you get the crunch of the sugar, the satisfyingly teeth-sinking tenderness of the Cookie’s interior, and then that phenomenally fluffy frosting at the center. As for taste? These might as well be hand-holdable slices of gingerbread cake.