Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Decadent chocolate flavored cookies sandwiched with creamy peanut butter centers. Simply delicious and easy!
Servings: 24 sandwich cookies
Calories: 177.5kcal
Ingredients
Cookies
- 190 g all purpose flour
- 45 g cocoa powder sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 90 g granulated sugar
- 100 g soft brown sugar
- 120 g butter
- 60 g peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Filling
- 180 g peanut butter
- 100 g powdered sugar sifted
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 175°Celsius. Prepare baking trays lined with parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and keep them aside.
- In a clean bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, and both the white and brown sugars until creamy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until well incorporated, followed by the sifted dry ingredients. Mix until all the ingredients are well incorporated, and the dough comes together, soft.
- Roll the dough and cut out round cookies, approximately 4.5cm in diameter.
- Bake the cookies for 9 minutes.
- Remove cookies from oven, let them rest in the tray for a few minutes before transfering onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the filling, sift the powdered sugar into a bowl.
- Add the peanut butter and mix until the filling comes together.
- Using a ½ tablespoon measuring spoon, scoop the filling out onto a plate. Shape each scoop into round balls.
- To assemble the cookies, place one filling ball in the center of one cookie. Flatten lightly with your fingers. Place another cookie on top and press the filling down very gently until it is flat and reaches the edges of the cookies.
- Repeat the process until all the cookies are done.
- Place the sandwiched homemade peanut butter sandwich cookies in an airtight container. The cookies can last up to 2 weeks if stored properly.
Notes
- Cocoa powder is one of the ingredients I have used in the cookie dough. Powdered sugar, on the other hand, is used for the filling. One common thing about cocoa powder and powdered sugar is that they tend to be lumpy (not just large lumps, but small tiny ones too). These tiny lumps are sometimes hard to break, especially in thick cookie dough or even a thick filling like the peanut butter centers for these chocolate sandwich cookies.
- To avoid these lumps, it is best that these dry ingredients are sifted first before being added to the cookies and the filling.
Nutrition
Calories: 177.5kcal | Carbohydrates: 21.2g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 9.6g | Saturated Fat: 3.8g | Cholesterol: 17.6mg | Sodium: 139.3mg | Potassium: 110mg | Fiber: 1.4g | Sugar: 12.9g | Vitamin A: 134.8IU | Calcium: 23.4mg | Iron: 0.9mg