Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies with Milk Chocolate Filling

Name: Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies with Milk Chocolate Filling
Yield: Makes 24 cookies
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups (6 1/4 ounces; 177 grams) raw, peanuts, toasted and cooled; 3/4 cup (3 3/4 ounces; 106 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1/2 cup, creamy peanut butter; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams), granulated sugar; 1/2 cup packed (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams), light brown sugar; 3 tablespoons, whole milk; 1 large, egg; 1/2 cup creamy, peanut butter; 6 ounces (170 grams) finely chopped, milk chocolate; 1 cup (4 ounces; 113 grams), confectioners' sugar

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

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We wanted a cookie so packed with peanut flavor that it needed no crosshatch to identify it.

SERVESMakes 24 cookies

TIME2 hours, plus 1 hour setting

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies with Milk Chocolate Filling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Peanut butter flavor molecules can be trapped by flour in baked applications, so we ratcheted up the flavor’s intensity by sandwiching an uncooked peanut butter filling between our cookies. Adding a full cup of confectioners’ sugar to the f...

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