The below post is also being featured today on Liz’s blog, Blog is the New Black. Check out her blog for great recipes for any part of the meal.
On New Year’s Eve, my husband and I went to his brother’s apartment for a fun but low-key night. They made us a delicious dinner and I, of course, brought dessert. There were four of us and I made two desserts, an ice cream pie, and “cookies” composed of my favorite flavor combination, chocolate and peanut butter. What better way to end the year?!
This was actually a very last minute dessert. I happened to have extra peanut butter filling in my freezer and an open package of chocolate wafers in my cabinet. You don’t even want to know how much baking chocolate I have on hand… When I thought through my inventory and the last time I used peanut butter filling, this recipe just came to me.
This recipe is really easy! First, prepare the peanut butter filling (recipe below) and lay out twenty chocolate wafers on a baking sheet lined with wax paper
Spread about a tablespoon of peanut butter onto each wafer
Press another wafer down to form a cookie sandwich
Repeat with all twenty cookies
Place tray of cookie sandwiches into the freezer for about an hour
Can you spot the tray? Welcome to my life…
Once cookies are chilled, set up your white chocolate for dipping
Melt chocolate by microwaving it in thirty second increments and stirring in-between
Then dip the cookie to cover about halfway on each side with chocolate
Make sure you get the chocolate around the edges
Set white chocolate cookies aside
Repeat the process with semi-sweet chocolate; Store cookies in the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature before serving
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Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches
Makes 20 cookie sandwiches
Ingredients:
Peanut Butter Filling
1 package chocolate wafers (you only need 40 cookies)
8 ounces white chocolate chips
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Prepare Peanut Butter Filling
Lay out twenty chocolate wafers on a baking sheet lined with wax paper
Spread about a tablespoon of peanut butter onto each wafer
Press another wafer down on top of peanut butter to form a cookie sandwich; repeat with all twenty cookies
Place tray of cookie sandwiches into the freezer for about an hour
Once cookies are chilled, set up your white chocolate for dipping
Melt chocolate by microwaving it in thirty second increments and stirring in-between
Then dip half of the cookies, covering half of each with chocolate; set white chocolate cookies aside
Repeat the process with semi-sweet chocolate
Store cookies in the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature before serving
Peanut Butter Filling
Ingredients:
1/2 cup (1 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons salted natural creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Directions:
Beat butter until light and creamy
Beat in peanut butter
Mix in confectioners sugar on low speed and then beat until light and fluffy
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What is your favorite thing to dip in chocolate?
Love! I love dipping pretzels in chocolate or anything salty–another fave is slathering peanut butter on a ritz cracker, topping with another, and dipping the whole thing in chocolate. Delish!
Yum, the ritz + chocolate + peanut butter sounds amazing! I used some extra chocolate with pretzels:-)
Awesome recipe… thanks again for the guest post! :) I’ll be needing your creations in the future, for sure! ;)
cookies + peanut butter + white chocolate = amazing combination :)
I would probably eat cardboard dipped in chocolate. Isn’t everything improved with chocolate? I guess if I have to choose, my favorite would be chocolate dipped strawberries. And, these cookies look pretty great, too!
Mmmm…Love it!! Amazing cookies and I don’t even have to turn on the oven? I am all over this one! :)
I looooove choc covered strawberries!
Nice! Kind of like a take on black and white cookies..
You have me hooked on the cookie sandwich! :) These look delicious.
It is hard to resist finding an excuse to add butter cream, peanut butter filling, etc. to a cookie!
Hey lady! Just gave you the Stylish Blogger Award over on my site because I think you rock! Come by and check it out – hope you’ll share 7 things with us all :)
Thank you!!! I’ll check it out!
What a fabulous recipe. These are way too cute and I am definitely going to need to make them!
xo
Your freezer looks as jam-packed as mine! I definitely need to make room in it for these cookies…they look fantastic! Hope you had a great weekend :)
I’m pretty sure you can’t go wrong with anything dipped in chocolate, but these look so good! And, perfect for making something fun when you don’t quite have time to bake..
Oooh, these look wonderful and SO simple. I love how you took simple pantry ingredients and turned them into an elegant dessert.
I would be in cookie heaven with these babies. Especially with the peanut butter ice cream in between. I need to have a dinner party just so I can invite you and we can eat confections like this.
Yesssss
holy WOW, those look A-MAZING! I did dipped oreos topped with crushed peppermint (and oreo balls!) for christmas, but those look fantastic.
I’m almost glad I didn’t do those… I think I’d have an extra 9 pounds on me. forget SHARING when something’s that wonderful!
MMM gotta love oreo balls;-)
Uhmm…I will dip just about anything in chocolate! These look amazing and I can’t wait to try them myself!
mmm these sound so good!! Thanks for sharing! I love anythign chocolate dipped but peanuts are my favorite!
Hi! It’s my first time on your blog and OMG those cookies look amazing! I am in love with peanut butter and chocolate. My favorite thing to dip in chocolate would have to be pretzels. I even like to eat them with chocolate chips at times for that sweet and salty combo! ;)
So glad you stopped by!
I luv luv those chocolate wafers! They are a girl’s best friend! (Found ur blog thru AvidAppetite – really enjoyed looking around at all ur great posts!)
Thanks! The wafers are great- I used them to dip into cookie dough dip as well:-)
MMM, the white chocolate is the perfect note to those!
Those look really yummy! You say they’re easy, but there are a lot of steps—and they’re pretty and indulgent looking :)
These sound devilishly good and so simple!
I would love one of those right now!!
These cookies look like they hit the spot with a big glass of milk.Tasty!
Oh wow! These look divine. So glad you found me so I could lust after your recipes