Peanut Butter-Filled Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
These Peanut Butter-Filled Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are the perfect pairing of two favorite flavors. Chewy chocolatey cookies meet creamy peanut butter frosting in these deliciously dreamy sandwich cookies!
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Servings: 6 sandwiches
Ingredients
- 4 oz. semisweet chocolate
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- 2 Tbsp. flour
- 1/8 tsp. baking powder
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1 egg
- 1/3 c. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- Frosting:
- 3 Tbsp. softened butter
- 1/3 c. creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 c. powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. cream
- 2 Tbsp. mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, combine chocolate and butter. Cook over low heat until both have melted.
- Stir until smooth and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla until mixture begins to thicken.
- Stir in cooled chocolate mixture, followed by flour mixture.
- Beat until combined. Let batter stand 10 minutes in order to thicken up.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Drop dough by tablespoon onto a lined baking sheet, keeping each cookie about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8 minutes, or until edges are set and cookies are slightly cracked.
- Let cool for 1 minute before removing to a cooling rack.
- Prepare the frosting. In a mixer bowl, combine butter and peanut butter, beating until smooth.
- Slowly mix in powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add in vanilla and cream and beat until frosting is spreadable consistency, adding more cream if necessary.
- Stir in mini chocolate chips.
- To assemble, pipe or spread a generous spoonful of frosting over the bottoms of 6 cookies.
- Top each with remaining cookies.