Salted Nutella and Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Name: Salted Nutella and Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Prep time: 150 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 159 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter {113g; unsalted; at room temperature}; 1/2 cup peanut butter {at room temperature (or 20 seconds in the microwave}); 1/2 cup granulated sugar {100g}; 1/2 cup packed brown sugar {110g}; 1 egg; 1/2 tsp vanilla; 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour {188g; or fluffed (spooned and leveled}); 1 tsp cornstarch; 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; granulated sugar {for rolling}; coarse sea salt {for sprinkling}; 1 cup Nutella

May 26, 2014 36 Comments

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These salty/sweet nutella peanut butter sandwich cookies are the absolute best flavor combination you will find!

Technology and I, we are not very good friends right now. Last night I had this entire post written & edited. The recipe written up. The photos all posted. All I had to do was press ‘publish’

Then poof! It disappeared. I thought I had a back-up. I did not. Technology fail. Ugh.

It’s incidents like this that remind me to get out that old external hard drive and back up my computer! I always assume my trusty old MacBook Pro is invincible, but it really is not.

So. I have learned my lesson. You actually cannot hit ‘save draft’ enough times.

You know what makes learning hard lessons like this {on a Monday, no less!} a little easier to stomach? Peanut butter. Nutella. Sea salt. These cookies.

Confession…I am a total peanut butter addict. I love it on my toast…or on a spoon…but best of all in cookie form.

Looking at my recipe index, you wouldn’t have a clue of my peanut butter love…there isn’t a single peanut butter recipe. Well. Clearly, this situation needed to be remedied.

For these nutella peanut butter sandwich cookies, I started out with the Better Homes and Gardens classic peanut butter cookie recipe, but for me, they were far too crispy and thin. So I increased the flour and added some cornstarch to up the chewy factor and reduce the spreading. I sprinkled the tops with coarse sea salt.

The resulting cookie retains the awesome peanut buttery flavor of the BHG cookie, but is a touch more chewy. And perfect for Nutella smooshing!

These peanut butter sandwich cookies are so yummy, they {almost} make me forget about my technology mishap. This is heaven in a cookie: gooey, chocolatey, hazelnutty Nutella, squished between two layers of sweet and salty {and chewy} peanut butter cookies.

And. When you get a big old grain of sea salt, wow. It is like peanut butter and Nutella X 1000!

Some Notes for Perfect {Chewy} Peanut Butter Cookies:

Don’t exceed 1 tbsp-sized balls
Chill your dough for at least 2 hours
Remove from the oven when *bottoms* are golden brown, not sides {when the sides were brown for me, the cookies were too crispy}. They will look puffy and under-baked but they firm up while cooling on the cookie sheet.

More cookies for us!

these Butterscotch Brown Sugar Cashew Cookies are perfect with a glass of milk
or go for a lighter sandwich cookie with these Coffee Nutella Meringue Cookies
and these Pretzel Toffee Rolo Cookies are another great salty/sweet cookie

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