We’re making Homemade Nutter Butters…sure you can pick up a package of these favorite peanut butter cookies at the store, but are they soft and warm from your oven?
I didn’t think so. See, now you have to make them! The peanut butter frosting is so simple to mix up, and warning…you might want to eat it all with a spoon, but hold the urge and make these cutest ever little Nutter Butter cookies. We made a fun little video so you can see them in action!
Homemade Nutter Butters
Servings 6 sandwich cookies
Ingredients
FOR THE COOKIES
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
FOR THE FILLING
1/4 cup butter room temperature
1/4 cup peanut butter room temperature
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Stir the cookie ingredients together until smooth. Scoop out 1 inch balls of cookie dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Press down with the back of a fork and then press again from the opposite direction, to make the criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie.
To make the cookie dough into the shape of a Nutter Butter cookie, form the cookie dough ball into a log shape.
Roll the cookie dough in sugar (optional).
Press down with the back of a fork and then press again from the opposite direction, to make the criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie. Finish by pinching in both sides of each cookie before baking.
Bake for 12 minutes and then let cool on the tray for 1-2 more minutes.
For the filling: beat the butter and peanut butter in a big bowl with a hand mixer together until smooth.
Slowly add in your powdered sugar and beat until smooth.
Add the milk, one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached.
Spread a tablespoon of the filling onto the bottom side of one of the cookies and then top with another cookie to create a cookie sandwich…a nutter butter sandwich!
Enjoy!