Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

I wanted to make some sort of peanut butter cookies for our beer pong finals. I think the saltiness of the peanut butter goes really well with beer 🙂 The cookies themselves actually have no peanut butter in them, but the filling does so it fits the bill. I made a double batch and got 2.5 dozen cookie sandwiches.

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies – from Fresh from Cate’s Kitchen
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup quick oats
1 cup light brown sugar
1 stick butter, softened
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla

Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and oats in a medium bowl.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until fluffy.

Beat in vanilla and egg, then stir in dry ingredients until just combined.

Roll about 2 tsp of dough into a ball, then flatten and press onto a Silpat-lined baking sheet.

Repeat with remaining dough.

Bake at 350 for 8-12 minutes (closer to 8 for softer cookies, closer to 12 for crisper cookies).

Cool on a wire rack.

Filling3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 tbsp half and half – I used goat’s milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Beat all ingredients together in the bowl of an electric mixer until smooth.

When cookies are cool, pipe or spread frosting on one and press another on top to make a sandwich.

Note – My frosting was very thick so I ended up double the amount of liquid by adding more milk. You will have some extra frosting. But it’s amazing so no big deal there.

Cookies, Dessert

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11 Responses to “Butterscotch, Coconut, and Toffee Cookies”

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Ellen — February 11, 2014 at 10:46 pm
They sound awesome! Everything I like–hubby has good taste! You might want to edit–it says chocolate chips and I assume you mean butterscotch chips. Can’t wait to try them. Thanks a lot.
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
  
  Thanks for the heads up. I have fixed the typo.
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chelsea @ serves two — February 11, 2014 at 11:26 pm
I must admit that in reading this post I turned to my fiance and asked him what his favorite kind of cookie was (we’ve been together 5 1/2 years). His response: peanut butter chocolate chip. You learn something new every day 🙂

I too love butterscotch (and coconut and toffee for that matter!) but it is such an overlooked flavor!
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
  
  Isn’t that funny?!? Crazy how you can be with someone so long and still be surprised by them!
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Judy Dougherty — February 12, 2014 at 10:17 am
In the recipe you, you say to add chocolate chips(?) and there is no reference to when you add the toffee or the coconut…
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
  
  They go in with the butterscotch chips. I have updated the recipe to reflect this. Sorry about the typo.
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Liz — February 12, 2014 at 1:29 pm

Thank you for the nice recipe.
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Shannon — February 22, 2014 at 1:53 pm

kind of amazing/awesome that there’s still more to discover about him after all these years! 🙂
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Nutmeg Nanny — February 23, 2014 at 10:23 am

Wow, what a combination! These cookies sound heavenly 🙂
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vanillasugarblog — February 25, 2014 at 8:36 pm

Yes yes yes! Butterscotch and coconut together! It works it does.