I hope you’re not thinking “another peanut butter recipe?” I know it was just yesterday that we talked about peanut butter waffles, but I couldn’t wait to share these cookies. They’ve been on my to-do list for a while, and I baked them yesterday in anticipation of needing a snack during a long night/early morning full of royal wedding mania. I couldn’t trust myself to respond to a 4 am alarm so I stayed up most of the night to watch the historic event with many of my Twitter buddies and I think it was well worth it. I was too young to watch Charles and Diana’s wedding so this was my first royal wedding experience and it definitely lived up to the hype.
But about the cookies… I’d seen them on Annie’s site originally, and I was hooked the minute she mentioned they were similar to Nutter Butters. Oh how I loved those cookies back in the day! I haven’t had them in years and probably won’t ever again because these are even better. The peanut butter oatmeal cookies are soft and chewy with a luscious peanut butter frosting sandwiched in the middle. The filling calls for heavy cream, which I realized I didn’t have only after I got started, so I subbed half and half and it worked fine. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter since law school, and a few of these sandwiches powered me through. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get my errands done so there’s time for a quick nap this afternoon 🙂
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies
originally from Allrecipes (as seen on Annie’s Eats)
Cookies
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup quick-cooking oats
Filling
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
3 tablespoons heavy cream
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line two baking sheets with parchment.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, peanut butter and both sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then add the egg and vanilla. Beat to incorporate. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients, mixing just until combined. Finally, add the oats and beat briefly to distribute evenly.
Use a small cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between them. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are golden and puffed, and the edges are set. (I did 12 cookies per sheet and baked only one sheet at a time.) Transfer baking sheet to a wire rack and let the cookies cool on the sheet for 5 minutes then transfer then to the wire rack to cool completely. Repeat to bake all dough.
To make the filling: Combine the butter, peanut butter and confectioners’ sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until smooth. Add the heavy cream and beat until fluffy. Match the cookies in pairs by size. Transfer the filling to a piping bag and pipe a small amount onto the flat side of one cookie of each pair. Sandwich the cookies together, and press the filling to the edges.
Makes about 18 sandwich cookies
These look just perfect… I have to bookmark this recipe and make them soon. Hopefully this weekend!
Oh my these cookies are calling my name. I love anything peanut butter so I’m very happy to see another peanut butter recipe from you! I can’t wait to try these out. 🙂
Nutter butters are the best! However, usually I don’t like filled cookies because the filling tends to not be soft the way I like, but these cookies look so dang delicious and the filling looks good enough to eat out of a bowl all on its own!
Nutter Butters…yum! And so appropriate for a royal wedding. I’m sure William and Catherine would love them.
I, too, had bookmarked this recipe, but haven’t made them yet. They do look sooooooo good.
These look so good! I would get all sorts of praise by my husband if I made these. He loves p/b anything!
I have these bookmarked! I’m a proud peanut butter junkie 🙂
They’re like homemade Pirate cookies!
Wow, I’m impressed you stayed up for the wedding! I saw some pictures this morning and Kate looked beautiful.
I love nutter butters, but these look even better. Your cookies always look so perfect. Nice work yet again!
I never get tired of peanut butter! I DVRd the wedding and have been watching it this morning; it was fantastic!
These just look absolutely delicious!!! I’m bookmarking this!
These look delicious, Tracey! I wish I had some right now, they would sure hit the spot 🙂
I also got this recipe off of Annie’s site and they are the BEST BEST BEST cookies ever! I’ve made them at least 10 times and people are always begging me for them. Anyone considering making these- do it! They’re so good!
Oh wow those look amazing Tracey! It’s a perfect combo of my husband’s two favorite cookies so I’m printing this out to make asap!
Sounds like a perfect cookie recipe for my home! Thank you for sharing 🙂 I love your blog!
I’ve never tried making my own sandwich cookies, but NEED to after this. Yum!
I must join the bookmarked club! These look so perfect!
Yum. Seriously yum!
I just love the idea of a peanut butter filling! I could add this to just about any cookie!!
I had so much fun watching the royal wedding with you via twitter! I hope you got a good nap in the afternoon.
my baking to-do list is insane wish i could catch up! these cookies look so yummy and i love that they are oatmeal w/ pb. also, glad to know half and half worked in the place of whipping cream because i always have one or the other and never both.
my baking to-do list is insane wish i could catch up! these cookies look so yummy and i love that they are oatmeal w/ pb. also, glad to know half and half worked in the place of whipping cream because i always have one or the other and never both.
my baking to-do list is insane wish i could catch up! these cookies look so yummy and i love that they are oatmeal w/ pb. also, glad to know half and half worked in the place of whipping cream because i always have one or the other and never both.
my baking to-do list is insane wish i could catch up! these cookies look so yummy and i love that they are oatmeal w/ pb. also, glad to know half and half worked in the place of whipping cream because i always have one or the other and never both.
my baking to-do list is insane wish i could catch up! these cookies look so yummy and i love that they are oatmeal w/ pb. also, glad to know half and half worked in the place of whipping cream because i always have one or the other and never both.
These look so good! Oats and peanut butter are two of my favorites. That’s so funny that you ended up staying up all night to watch the wedding. I only caught a few snippets of it.
PB AND oatmeal sandiches. AWESOME!!!
Your cookies are making me hungry!! I love peanut butter cookies of all types; peanut butter oatmeal are the best ones, and with peanut butter frosting? That’s over the top!!
These look fabulous. Peanut butter sells them.
Yum! Those cookies look delicious. I’ve never had a Nutter Butter before, but I imagine they must be really good if they’re like these!
made these for my sister’s graduation party, gone in an hour. Phenomenal hit. So delicious!!
Had the cookies that Rick brought home. Loved them! Bet they were great with the filling too! Thanks for sharing Tracey!
Man, these look fantastic! I love the way the filling looks. Loved the royal wedding. I dvr’d it and haven’t seen the whole thing yet, but they looked so happy.
These could not look for perfect, delicious and comforting Tracey. I love them.
I made these for my peanut-butter-cookie-loving husband this week. They were delicious!
YUMMY. I always loved nutter butters over oreos! These look so good!
Kieran made these to bring to the cookout at” the point” yesterday and they were great with the filling, too!
Thank you for sharing….they were fabulous! Have added this recipe to my recipe box!!!
I just made these today for my Christmas cookie tray. They are fantastic. Thanks so much for such a great recipe. My son-in-law is going to be over the moon!