Easy Orange Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Honey Cream Cheese Filling

 

Easter in my family has always been a cause for a family celebration.  My grandma would host a big egg coloring party for all the kiddos on Good Friday.  She would boil up dozens and dozens of eggs.  Her entire farmhouse table would be covered in newspaper and lined with every mug in her cupboard.  Plop, fizz, we would help drop the tablets into the cups, my aunt pouring in the vinegar and water.  To this day the smell of vinegar makes me nostalgic for coloring Easter eggs.

 

We would drop our eggs in one by one.  The little kids pulling theirs out as almost as soon as they had touched the dye creating the palest colored shells.  Us older kids would wait  and wait and wait trying to get the deepest, darkest color.  We would scratch our names and the names of everyone we knew with white crayon onto the surface of the egg before tossing it into the dye.

 

My grandma would always have a big spread of appetizers too, snackies, she would call them and we would fill up while waiting for the Easter egg hunt to begin.  Even though my grandma is no longer with us, we still all get together for the next generation to color eggs.  These sandwich cookies were for the snack table, easy and kid friendly, the perfect end to a wonderful party.