Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies-Americas Test Kitchen

Perfecting the Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookie

Many recipes for peanut butter sandwich cookies disappoint with soft, dull-tasting cookies and overly sweet fillings. Here's how we improved the concept.

Super-Crunchy Cookies Fewer eggs and more baking soda add up to thin, flat, extra-crisp cookies.

A Smooth—but Not Runny—Filling Creaminess was crucial, but so was a filling that didn’t squish out the sides. Our formula: peanut butter, butter, and enough confectioners’ sugar to firm up the texture.

Big Peanut Flavor Replacing some of the flour with chopped toasted peanuts made
the cookies extra nutty.