Knock Offs: Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

These are just like Nutter Butters or those Girl Scout Cookies, I'm not kidding! They are SO good. I saw these featured at Tastespotting from Alice's Savory Sweet Life, and was so lucky I had all the ingredients on hand to make the next morning! Alice has step by step photos too, check them out!

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup quick cooking oats (I ground mine in the food processor)

Filling:

3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
2 1/2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream

In a large bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup peanut butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. Add egg and beat well.

In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add these dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir. Add oatmeal and stir.

Using a cookie scoop, make uniform cookie dough balls and then cut them in half down the center. Roll each half into a ball and place them onto a lined baking sheet pressing each mound down with the palm of your hand (I used the tines of a fork) to 1/4 inch thick cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 10 minutes, or until cookies are a light brown.

To Make Filling:

Cream 3 tablespoons butter with the confectioners’ sugar, 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter, and the cream. Fill the filling into a pastry bag or large Ziploc bag (cutting the corner to make a make-shift pastry bag) and squeeze filling (a good tsp-1/2 tbl worth) onto half of the cooled cookies, then top with the other half to form sandwiches.

Using my small scooper, I cut each ball of dough in half and got 84 little cookies. When sandwiched together I got 42 cookies. Mine were 2" little cookies when completed.

enjoy,