Dates that are chewy and spicy. These cookies are lightly sweetened by the dates.
| Servings: | 30 |
| Yield: | 5 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup butter flavored shortening
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the shortening, 1 cup creamy peanut butter and white and brown sugars. Add vanilla and then eggs, one at a time. Beat well after each addition. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add slowly to creamy mixture.
- Shape into 1 inch balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Flatten balls with a fork.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes depending on size (I tend to keep a close eye on them and remove them as soon as they start to get golden. This helps to make them chewy.) Cool on wire racks.
- To Make the filling: Combine 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla extract, and milk in a small bowl adding enough milk to make for a creamy, frosting like texture. Spread frosting on one cookie and top off to make “sandwich”.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 294 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 38 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 173 mg |
| Sugars | 27 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
these little guys are so good! they stay soft and are just perfect peanut butter goodness
I make these cookies every time 4 my bake sale and they always sell out but i don’t make the sandwich part I just make the cookie and add Reese’s peanut butter cups and they taste INCREDIBLE ??
My boyfriend took one bite of these and said, “Wow!” He has complimented me on my cookies many times, but has not given me a “wow” until this recipe. I followed ingredients, except for combining 1/2 cup butter with 1/2 cup vegetable shortening to make “butter flavored shortening”. Unfortunately, I ran out of icing before I ran out of cookies. The good news is that we grabbed the ones I had iced and put them in a safe place before the kids discovered them. We left the unfrosted cookies out as a decoy. They’re that good. I will definitely make them again, probably doubling or tripling the recipe.
soooo I made this recipe and totally forgot to add the butter. I realized this after I had already put the first pan in the oven. I laughed, and decided to wait it out. To our surprise, they turned out amazing!!!! I sent half a dozen with my son on his plane trip, and he wasn’t able to eat them until the next day, by then they were 3 days old, he said they were so soft and delicious. *side note I didn’t make them as sandwich cookies, just regular single cookies.
I made these for a cookie exchange and they we’re a huge hit! I substituted butter for the butter flavored crisco and they came out nice and chewy.
These cookies are the most asked for cookies in my house and with friends and family. I have even been asked several times to make these, for fundraisers.
Amazing!!
I made these and I loved them. My only dislike is the blast of sweetness from the filling. That’s likely just that I made the cookie itself rather large and applied a LOT of the filling. Overall, it was very pleasant.
I followed the recipe to the T. I felt it easier to pipe the filling on the super soft cookies. Yes, I will remake this.
Only thing I changed is the amount of Confectioner’s sugar from 3 cups to just 2 cups.
My husband has been eating the little Debbie brand of these for breakfast on the way to work. I made these and he said way better. I made them pretty big.
Excellent cookie, I did not have the butter flavored shortening so I used 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup shortening and they were great. I plan on trying them again with the shortening only this time. Hope they turn out as good as the first time.
These cookies are amazing! The only note is that you might want to make the dough balls even smaller prior to cooking, because they expand a lot. I followed the recipe and ended up with 58 individual cookies (or 29 as sandwiches) and just 1 sandwich was more than enough for a snack because it’s really 2 cookies and icing…next time i would make the balls even smaller because they expand way more than I would have anticipated. Just make sure you adjust the cooking time if you do decide to make them smaller, otherwise they might burn.
Easy to make and will definitely make again! Didn’t have butter flavored shortening so I used half shortening and half margarine and they came out beautifully!!
I thought the recipe was okay. I wasn’t in love with it, but I’m also picky with foods. All in all I give it a 3.
The very best cookie ever. It is a soft cookie that freezes very well. I entered this cookie in the fair and it won a blue ribbon. Excellent!!!
Wonderful recipe. Almost tastes like a girl scout cookie. So easy and fun to make. I used butter instead of shortening to lower the fat content and used whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose flour to add to the nuritional value. I will be adding this to my own cook book. Its very balanced and 1/2 cup more sugar would make it too sweet but its comfortably set a few inches from that line of too sweet.
Light and tasty cookie. I prefer flour-less peanut butter cookies usually,but these were very good. I had planned to make them into the sandwiches, but decided against it after baking. We cooked some plain, some with strawberry jam, and some with chocolate chips atop them. They are a really good, balanced cookie.
My husband requested Peanut butter cookies, so I thought I’d try these. Nobody really liked them. My husband said pb cookies aren’t supposed to be sandwiched. He said the cookies themselves are good, but not the filling. So, I won’t make these again, sorry.
These were YUM. I thought they were easy to make, not too much trouble. Made exactly as written. Great cookie.
these were pretty darn yummy!! i did add about 1/2 cup more peanut butter as i always do to every peanutbutter cookie recipe just my preference. these were nice an chewey to the filling i did add about 1/4 cup of cream cheese again just a personal preference Excellent!!!