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Warning: these peanut butter cookies have magical powers that compel you to force them into your mouth uncontrollably.
There, just had to get that part out. I got this pb cookie recipe from my friend Tiffanie and sandwiched them together with a creamy pb filling to make them extra naughty. Because around here, we love a good naughty cookie. Give these away to friends and they’ll have no choice but to love you forever.
This is a great basic peanut butter cookie dough. The shortening keeps them amazingly soft.
Since we’re making sandwich cookies, it’s important to have uniform sized cookies, so a scoop works really well for that.
And not only are these cookies doubly sweet because they’re sandwiched, but the dough spreads, so make your balls small. I use a regular size 40 cookie scoop and I separate each scoop of dough in half to form 2 cookies, and they’re still pretty good sized. A mini scoop is perfect.
Don’t tell, but whenever I roll dough in sugar, I eat the first one. I love the crunchy sugar and the soft dough, and the fact that it tastes like cookie. Because it is a cookie. Naturally.
Give those cookies a little criss-cross…
And pop them into the oven. You want them to say super soft, so don’t let them get brown. In my oven, and for the size of cookies I do, 6 minutes exactly is perfect.
After they’re baked and cooled, we fill. You want the filling to be on the thick side, it should just have enough milk in it to make it easily spreadable. If you add too much milk (like a normal frosting consistency) it might squish out of the cookies when you take a bite.
I actually think these are even better the 2nd day. The flavors mellow together and you get a cool sweet n’ salty thing going on. Plus, after they sit with the filling in them, the cookies get really soft. Mmmm…
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
- Yield: 4
Ingredients
For the dough
- 1 C butter flavored Crisco
- 1 C creamy peanut butter
- 1 C sugar
- 1 C packed brown sugar
- 1 t vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 3 C flour
- 2 t baking soda
- 1/2 t salt
- Additional white sugar for rolling
For the filling
- 1 C creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 C real butter, softened
- 4 C powdered sugar
- 2 t vanilla
- 3–4 Tbs milk
Instructions
For the cookies
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cream shortening, peanut butter, and sugars together until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Add in vanilla, and eggs one at a time. In a separate bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt and add to dough. Mix to combine. The dough will be very soft- that’s normal!
- Roll dough into 1/2 inch (or a little larger) balls, roll in sugar, place on ungreased cookie sheet and do the little forky criss-cross thing.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes, or until puffed and set, but not browned. Remove from oven, let cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes and then transfer to cooling rack.
For the filling
- Beat peanut butter, butter, sugar, and vanilla together until smooth, if needed, add milk until desired consistency is reached. When cookies are completely cooled, spread a layer of frosting on one side and sandwich together.
I’m a PB fanatic. Can’t wait to try these! {loved the Edward reference!}
Lindsay,
I meant to comment on the butter thing. Everyone knows I’m usually a butter purist, but the only time I like to use shortening in cookies is when it’s needed for texture. In this case, it keeps the cookies soft which is important when they’re sandwiched. I’m sure they’d still be delish with butter (what isn’t?!) , but they will probably spread out more and be thinner and a little crispier. If you try it, come back and tell me how it goes- I’d love to know!
Oh yum. Those look so good. Question, though: any chance they can be made with butter instead of shortening?
Those look delicious! Must make….
These are super good, but you can’t stop at just 5:)
Yum! That last part of the post was soo funny! I just may have to try making these for FHE. Hmm.
These look so yummy! I definitely agree…you can’t wipe your fingers on your pants… 😉
You never disappoint! Love the running commentary on the pictures. Totally what I would have done.
These look divine 🙂
Sara- these look yummy. I know I haven’t commented- but I really have appreciated the healthy recipes this month, and I have incorporated a bunch into this month’s menu! Thanx. Oh and thanx for taking one for the team and eating the cookie!