I know I have said this before, but my
husband loves peanut butter…and so do I.
When I went to Earth Fare about a month ago, they were having a $5 food
revolution. For those of you who do not
know, a $5 food revolution is when Earth Fare has five items in their store
that are a dollar each. Two of those
items were organic peanut butter and organic grape jelly. I couldn’t resist myself, so I bought
both. I contemplated making Ina
Garten’s Peanut Butter & Jelly bars, but decided that they contained
too much butter, too much sugar, and too much flour. I also wanted to make something that I could
sample. This made me think of the peanut
butter cookies I made for the pie crust of J.T.’s
Peanut Butter Birthday Pie. Those
cookies were good, but oh so sweet. For
my Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich cookies, I cut the amount of sugar in
half. I completely omitted the
granulated white sugar, and instead used honey.
What a good decision this happened to be. The cookies came out moist and creamy and the
sweetness of the jelly makes the cookies sweet enough. Taking a bite of these sandwich cookies takes
me back to the elementary school lunch room, when my mom would pack me a
PB&J. These cookies happen to be the
dessert version of my favorite childhood lunch.
Ingredients
·
1
cup creamy peanut butter
·
½
cup pure clover honey
·
1
teaspoon baking powder
·
1
egg
·
grape
jelly
Directions
1.
Preheat
the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2.
With
a handheld mixer, beat together the peanut butter and honey until smooth. Add the baking powder and beat until just combined. Lastly, beat in the egg until the batter is
smooth and creamy. Using a cookie scoop,
drop dough on to prepared baking sheet (about 20 cookies).
Use a spoon to gently flatten each cookie dough ball. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on baking sheet
for 5 minutes. Transfer the cookies to
a cooling rack and cool for at least 10 minutes (this gives them time to
harden).
3.
Once
the cookies are completely cool, spread about a teaspoon of grape jelly on one
cookie and top with another cookie.
Repeat the process until you run out of cookies. I somehow ended up with an odd number of
cookies. Of course, I had to eat that
one lonesome cookie in order to have an even number of sandwich cookies J
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