Dark and Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies

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One of our giveaway sponsors is Peanut Butter & Co. and they were also kind enough to send me their crazy good flavors to play around with. They definitely chose the right person because I made these cookies with not one but two different peanut butter flavors.

Rather than a typical, flourless PB cookie, I wanted something with a little more substance and crunch. And since I'm also now officially addicted to the Old Fashioned Crunchy flavor, it was an easy match.

Quite honestly I debated about using the Dark Chocolate Dreams in the filling because I'm a milk chocolate lover.  In fact, I'm going to take this opportunity to start an official campaign for Peanut Butter & Co. to come out with that flavor. Are you listening, PB&C people??

Despite that, when I mixed it with the powdered sugar and milk needed to make a creamy filling, it toned down the dark a bit and was a good counter to the sweet cookies. I ended up with a little extra filling and it was either use it to glaze the cookies or just eat it with a spoon. I glazed and dipped in chopped peanuts but I won't promise a few spoonfuls didn't also meet a different end. Enjoy!

by Hungry Couple

Prep Time: 20 Minutes

Cook Time: 15 Minutes

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Ingredients (Yields 1 Dozen Sandwich Cookies)

• Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies:
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 Cup white sugar
• 1/2 Cup brown sugar
• 1 Stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 Cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 Cups all purpose flour
• 1 Teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 Teaspoon salt
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• Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Filling:
• 2 Tablespoons powdered sugar
• 2 Tablespoons milk
• 1/2 Cup chocolate peanut butter
• Pinch of salt
• 1/4 Cup chopped roasted peanuts for coating (optional)

Instructions

To make the cookies, cream the egg, white sugar, brown sugar, butter, peanut butter and vanilla until smooth. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and fold into the wet batter.

Use a 1 oz. scoop to drop cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and keep them spaced a couple of inches apart to allow for spread. Bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 15 minutes and allow to cool before removing them from the baking sheet. I used two baking sheets and alternated them in the oven.

While the cookies are cooling, make the filling by whisking together the confectioner's sugar and milk. Mix in the peanut butter and salt until smooth. When the cookies have cooled, spread a couple of teaspoons of the filling on half of them and top with the other half. This recipe should yield approximately 2 dozen cookies which will make a dozen sandwich cookies.

If you like, drizzle a bit of the filling on a third of of each cookie sandwich and roll in the chopped peanuts.

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