Banana-Filled Peanut Butter Cookies
From jo_jo_ba 17 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Creamy peanut-butter and rum filling sandwiched between two awesome nutty peanut-butter cookies. Adapted from an Anna Olson recipe.
Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup stick margarine, room temperature shopping list
- 1/2 cup sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter (or add 2 T chopped peanuts) shopping list
- 1 cup all purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour shopping list
- 1 tsp baking soda shopping list
- 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
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- 1 tbsp margarine shopping list
- 1 1/2 tbsp brown sugar shopping list
- 1 tbsp light rum shopping list
- pinch each cinnamon and nutmeg shopping list
- 2 small bananas, sliced shopping list
- 1/2 cup light cream cheese shopping list
- 1/2 cup smooth light peanut butter shopping list
How to make it
- For cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Cream together margarine and sugars until pale and fluffy.
- Beat egg and vanilla, add to creamed mixture.
- Stir in peanut butter.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
- Blend with peanut butter mixture.
- Drop 24 balls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and press them with a floured fork.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on sheet.
- For filling:
- In sauté pan, melt margarine.
- Add sugar and increase heat to medium-high.
- Stir until melted and bubbling.
- Add rum, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Stir in bananas to coat, pour into a bowl and set aside.
- Cream together cream cheese and peanut butter until smooth. Mash bananas and add to cream cheese mixture until smooth. Chill for 20 minutes.
- Fill between 2 cooled peanut butter cookies to make sandwiches.
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choclytcandy
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great cookie tasty delicous thanks high5
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Sounds easy to do.
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