Scrumptious peanut butter sandwich cookies filled with rich peanut butter buttercream sweetened with molasses are the perfect easy cookies!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword peanut butter buttercream, peanut butter cookies
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 25 minutesminutes
Servings 18cookies
Calories 277kcal
Ingredients
For the Cookies
1stickbutter
1/2cupcreamy peanut butter
1/2cupwhite sugar
1/4cuplight brown sugarlightly packed
1/2tspvanilla extract
1egg
3/4cupall-purpose flour
1/2tspbaking soda
1/4tspbaking powder
1cupquick oats
For the Buttercream Frosting
1stickbutterat room temperature
1/2cupcreamy peanut butter
3/4cuppowdered sugar
2tbspmolasses
1tbspheavy cream
Pinch of salt
Instructions
Make the Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream the butter and peanut butter together in a large mixer on high. Add the sugar, brown sugar and vanilla and continue to beat until the mixture is fluffy. Add the egg and beat until combined. Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and oats together in a separate bowl and add to the butter mixture. Mix until well combined.
Place the batter onto a sheet pan by the tablespoonful, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. Bake in the top half of the oven until the cookies are golden, about 10 minutes. Remove and let cool.
When the cookies are completely cool, put a teaspoonful of the butter cream into the center of half of the cookies. Top with the remaining cookies, pressing down until the filling squeezes out a bit. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Make the Buttercream
Cream the butter and peanut butter together using an electric mixer. Add the sugar and molasses and beat until thick and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the heavy cream and salt and beat one additional minute.