What's a delicious & fun dessert that I can make with heavy cream and store-bought sugar cookie dough?!
Answers: Assume that I have basic or conventional baking/cooking ingredients and equipment.
Fun? I like fun! Happy New Year.
You already have the sugar cookie dough, follow the directions and bake.
Whip the cream & add vanilla extract - stiff peaks.
Make sugar cookie sandwiches, just think how delicious it will be licking all that whipped cream oozing from the sides of the sandwiches not to mention your fingers. Mmmm
You could, of course, decorate the cookies with the whipped cream but that seems like it wouldn't be as much fun.
You have the basics for making Napoleans- cream filled pastry deserts. See the first link below for various recipes.
I suggest you line a 10" x 15" jelly-roll pan with foil or parchment paper, then grease the lining, and roll out the cookie dough to fill it. Bake until done, which may be sooner than the time listed. Lift the lining and cookie from the pan and set on a flat surface to cool. When it reaches room temperature place the cookie in the refrigerator to chill.
Whip the cream till soft peaks form, add sugar a tablespoon at a time and the vanilla, whipping till stiff peaks form. The second link shows many ways to make whipped cream.
When the cookie dough is chilled cut it into evenly sized pieces about 2" x 3." Spread the whipped cream on the bottom of one slice, and place a 2nd slice on top to form a sandwich. For variation spread seedless raspberry jam (or your personal favorite) on the bottom cookie, then spread the whipped cream, then top with the second cookie. Place filled cookies in the freezer to set for 20 - 30 minutes. Keep refrigerated until serving time.
Do you have a box of pudding mix? (Or cornstarch and cocoa to make it from scratch?)
Make a pie-crust out of the sugar cookie dough, bake it, fill with pudding and top with whipped cream.