Chocolate Mocha Sandwich Cookies

We're headed to a little gathering/ pumpkin carving extravaganza later tonight, and I decided I would be ambitious and bake something from scratch, so I chose Chocolate Mocha Sandwich Cookies (from a Williams-Sonoma cookbook called Food Made Fast: Baking).  I figure that, if I tried extra hard making these cookies, it would make up for the lack of effort I will put forth while carving pumpkins tonight (I'm just so bad at it!).  I made the dough last night, let it chill, and tackled the baking portion this morning.  I had a difficult time grasping the concept of forming the dough into a log and cutting it into 1/8" slices with a "very sharp knife" as directed without completely squishing the slices (how sharp is this knife?!?), so instead, I rolled out the dough and cut out circles using a cup from the National Museum of Natural History, the kind with the liquid and glitter in the bottom so that things float and look cool when you drink from it (except this one had an unfortunate run-in with the dishwasher and is just hideous now).  Only the most professional of tools in my kitchen!

Anyway, the whole cookie-baking process turned out to be a bit more involved and time-consuming than I would have guessed from the recipe, so I thought that the results of my morning AND afternoon spent toiling away in the kitchen deserved some photographic documentation.