Cookie Recipes
Banana-Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
- 1 cup + 1/4 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large ripe bananas, pureed or mashed (1 cup)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup peanut butter
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Beat together butter, shortening, 1 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar until creamy. Beat in bananas, eggs and vanilla extract.
- Stir together flour, baking soda and salt until blended. Stir mixture into banana mixture until well blended.
- Drop mixture by heaping rounded teaspoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Stir together remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle mixture over cookies. Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass.
- Bake for 9 to 10 minutes, or until cookies are set and light brown around the edges (cookie tops will not brown). Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool.
- Spread bottoms of half the cookies with peanut butter; top with a second cookie (bottoms together).
- Store cookies in a tightly covered container.
Nutrition
Per serving: 174 calories, 10g fat (4g sat. 4g mono.), 21mg cholesterol, 117mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate, 1g fiber, 3g protein