Chocolate and Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies - Week 10 of 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies

Raise your hand if you like chocolate and peanut butter.  That's what I thought, most of you do!  I was lurking around Pioneer Woman's site in honor of cookie week and happened upon these delights.  They are a creamy, oh so delicious peanut butter filling sandwiched between two chocolate cookies.  What's not to love?

The cookies are so quick to make, they take a little help from a box of cake mix.  The cook time for the cookies is only 10 minutes and the filling comes together in a snap.  If you are looking for a tasty treat to make at the last minute, add these to your list!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
from: The Tasty Kitchen
Ingredients:
COOKIE:
2 Eggs
½ cup Vegetable Oil
¼ cup All-purpose Flour
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
Filling:
4 ounces Cream Cheese, softened
¾ cup Smooth Peanut Butter
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
2-½ cups Powdered Sugar
3 Tablespoons Milk

For the cookies:
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly whisk eggs and oil in a medium bowl. Mix in flour and cake mix until well blended. Roll into 1 inch balls and bake for 8-10 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. Cool completely on a wire rack.
For the filling:
In a bowl cream together cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla. Add in powdered sugar and mix until smooth. Add in milk a little at a time until you get the desired consistency.
Spread about 2 Tablespoons of frosting onto the bottom of one cookie and then place another cookie on top.  Repeat with remaining cookies.  Enjoy!

The next time that I make these (oh there will so be a next time, maybe as soon as this batch is gone and maybe with a mint filling), I will flatten the cookies a little before they go in the oven.  I like to use a cookie scoop, but sometimes cookies retain too much of that ball shape and don't flatten out.  That happened here, so my sandwich cookies looked a little more round than they should have.  They still tasted great though and that counts for something.
The recipe says it makes 16 servings, but we all know that I never get that many.  I was able to get about 14 sandwiches and a lot of leftover filling.  I'm thinking of making a batch of brownies and putting the filling on top and then a layer of melted chocolate over that.  Does that sound fantastic or what?  Stay tuned for that experiment!
Oh and make sure you have a big glass of milk nearby, these cookies require it!

Can you believe we only have two more weeks of cookie posts?  That means Christmas is right around the corner, hooray!

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