Better Nutters

Luxurious peanut butter buttercream sandwiched between crispy, chewy peanut butter oatmeal cookies with peanut chunks…these are a peanut lover’s dream cookie!

The cookie dough is easy to make but softens very quickly and needs to be refrigerated until firm before you can hope to roll it out. The cookies are then baked from a frozen state so there’s a fair bit of waiting time with this recipe. Because of the oatmeal and chopped nuts, the cookies don’t cut cleanly but they do spread during baking so the rough edges smooth out a little. I used a 2 ¼” cookie cutter so my cookies were much smaller and the yield higher than the recipe states – 18 sandwiches instead of 6.

The cookies are not very sweet but delicious enough to stand on their own; filling them definitely takes them to another level. They were filled with this basic buttercream flavoured with peanut butter.