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After seeing this recipe first on Herding Cats and Burning Soup I knew I had to make it. I hadn’t tried my hand at sandwich cookies yet and Anna loved these and make it sound so good. So I gave it a try and these cookies are so delicious. The cookies are filled with oats, pecan nuts and cinnamon flavour and then combined with the peanut butter filling, these are cookies where you can easily ate multiple after each other and still want more.
This recipe is based on the Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies recipe of Herding Cats and Burning Soup.
Ingredients
- Butter – 114 gram/ 1/2 cup/ 1 stick
- Flour – 128 gram/ 1 cup
- Oats – 125 gram/ 1 1/4 cup
- Pecans – 100 gram/ 1 cup
- Brown Sugar – 180 gram/ 1 cup
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla Extract – 1 teaspoon
- Baking Powder and/or baking soda – 1 teaspoon in total
- Cinnamon – 3 teaspoons
- Nutmeg – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
Peanut Butter filling ingredients
- Butter – 42 gram/ 3 tablespoons
- Peanut Butter – 125 gram/ 1/2 cup
- Powdered Suagr – 125 gram/ 1 cup
- Water – 3-4 tablespoons
While the recipe calls for smooth peanut butter, I always make this with penaut butter with pieces of nuts and it still turns out great. You can subsitute the water for milk, but I prefer using water as then I don’t have to worry as much keeping it out of the fridge. And I don’t notice much difference in the taste. You cna half this recipe when you don’t want to cover all of the cookies. I usually half it and can still cover most cookies when I eat them with them seperate instead of as sandwhiches.
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius/ 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- Mix the sugar and butter in a bowl, you can heat the butter for a few seconds in the microwave if you’re using a mixer, but you can also kneed the dough with your hands. Mix the butter and sugar until well combined.
- Add an egg and the vanilla extract to the butter and sugar mixture and mix well.
- In another bowl combine the oats, flour, baking powder and/or baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
- Then start combining the dry ingredient piece by piece with the wet ingredients until combined.
- At last add the pecan nuts and stir for a bit.
- Role small balls from the dough and place them on a baking sheet with parchment paper. It doesn’t really matter how big you make the cookies as long as they are all approximately the same size.
- Bake the cookies for about 13 minutes and then get them out of the oven and let them cool down.
- In the meantime get started on the peanut butter filling. In a small bowl combine the butter, peanut butter, powdered sugar and the water. Then stir well.
- Once the cookies are cooled down, scoop some peanut butter filling on a cookie and cover it with another cookie. Continue until all cookies are sandwiches. Or you can just put the peanut butter toping on oen side and eat the cookies like that.
Pictures
Add the sugar and butter to a bowl
After mixing the sugar and butter add an egg
After mixing the egg through the dough. Yours might look different if you use a mixer, I kneed the dough with my hands.
Combining the dry ingredients
After mixing the dry and the wet ingredients
Pecans
And after adding the pecans.
Cookies before going in the oven, you can flaten them a bit so they get a bit flatter
Cookies after going in the oven
Cookies cooling down
Ingredients for the peanut butter filling
And here’s how the penaut butter frostign looks after mixing
Put the peanut buter frosting on a cookie
And put another cookie on top
Ready to eat!
Variation Tips
- Oatmeal cookies. If you don’t want to make the filling, you can also eat these as normal oatmeal cookies as they taste great on their own as well.
- Vary with fillings. I mentioned before that this is my first try at sandwich cookies, so I have no idea for other fillings, but I am sure there are countless of other fillings that would taste great with these cookies as well.
Yum !
They are yummy indeed 🙂
I must have missed her post on these. Oh wow, do those look tasty!
Sophia Rose recently posted…After the Rain by Renee Carlino #Review
It’s been a few months back she posted about these and I just had to give them a try and then asked her if I could do a recipe post about them too. Just had to share this recipe with you. I mostly followed the original recipe, but I tweaked it a little so it has more pecan nuts.
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Looks amazing Lola! My absolutely favorite type of cookie sandwiches are icecream sandwiches:D Warm cookie with cold icecream is just fantastic. lol
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I don’t think I ever have tried a icecream cookie, will have to give that a try soon. We did frequently have an ice cream when I was little where there was vanille ice and chocolate and two waffles you put on both sides so you could eat it more easily, they were pretty good.
Lola recently posted…Lola’s Kitchen: Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies Recipe
I’m so glad you loved them too, Lola!! They really are tasty. I need to make them again sometime soon. The filling on them was so yummy!
anna (herding cats & burning soup) recently posted…Guest Post w/ Kimberly Kincaid– Inspiration, Anyone?
I made them last week, they are so yummy! Last time I just made the filling seperately and them when I wanted a cookie, I put it on it’s back and slathered some filling on it. It’s easier to eat than making them in sandwiches, especially as mine usually turn out a bit too round.
Oh my god, you’re KILLING ME with the cookies! Lol. I really want these, as pretty much anything with peanut butter is my weakness.
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Mine too! I love peanut butter, my most recent creation was peanut butter risotto, which was pretty good! The peanut butter filling for these cookies is really yummy, you can also use it as topping for other cookies.
Looks amazing Lola! I love to bake too but haven’t baked in months :(( This doesn’t look hard to do so many when I finally have the time, I can make this one as well. I’m not a huge lover of peanut butter, but I do crave it from time to time. As the first commenter said: YUM! 😀
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This recipe is pretty simple. I haven’t had as much time to bake lately as I’ve been crazily busy, but if I haven’t baked for a few days I am really craving it. I love baking and then afterwards eating it ofcourse. I love peanut butter and this peanut butter filling is delicious.
Lola recently posted…Lola’s Kitchen: Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies Recipe
They sound delicious but not very diet friendly for me! I will keep them in mind next time we have visitors though as that way I won’t be tempted to eat them all myself! 🙂 I love peanut butter so I think that would be my filling of choice.
Trish @ Between My Lines recently posted…The Sunday Post : Get your Bookish News #69
I hope you give them a try next time you have visitors. I am actually the opposite, I make them when I know no one is coming to visit so my boyfriend and I can eat them all ourselves. I love peanut butter and the peanut butter filling works really well with the cookies.
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Yum, yum, YUM! I love peanut butter, so you know I have to try these. I don’t think I’ve ever made sandwich cookies either, but you make it look easy!
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This was my first try at sandwich cookies and I still have some trouble making the cookies flat enough that they make good sandwiches, as you can see in the pictures. Sometimes I just slather the filling on the bottom of a cookie and eat it like that. If you love peanut butter, you will probably enjoy these cookies! I am a big peanut butter fan as well 🙂
Yum! I’ve not made sandwich cookies before…and that’s saying something. *ha* I make thumbprint cookies and typically use chocolate or currant jam as the filling. But I think I’ll give these cookies a whirl this week, Lola. I promised my kids I’d make them some cookies to take with them as they travel to my parents’ house. So thanks for sharing another cookie recipe! 😉
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This were my first try at sandwich cookies. I actually prefer to make them with filling on one side, so there is mroe filling for each cookie. I’ve never make thumbprint cookies though, will have to give those a try soon!
I hope you’ll like these cookies, let me know how they turn out!