Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are rich chocolate buttercream sandwiched between two chewy peanut butter oatmeal cookies. These are just like a good old fashioned peanut butter bar, just in sandwich form!
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie
Chocolate Buttercream
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp chocolate pudding powder
- 1 1/2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Cream for 3 minutes, the mixture will be light and fluffy.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl and add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Add the flour, salt and rolled oats to the bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Scoop the cookie dough out onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges barely start turning brown. The cookies probably won't change shape much while cooking, that is okay.
- Right after the cookies are pulled out of the oven, take the back of a glass drinking cup and smash the cookies flat. Let them cool on the hot pan.
Chocolate Buttercream
- Place all ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Using the paddle attachment, starting slowly, combine the ingredients.
- Once the ingredients are mostly combined, turn the speed up as high as possible and let the buttercream whip for a few minutes until light and fluffy.
Assembly
- Each sandwich will use two cookies.
- Frost the backside of one cookie with a generous amount of frosting.
- Top the frosting with another cookie. The backsides of the cookies should be touching the frosting, so the pretty side of the cookie is facing out.
