Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Preheat oven to 350F.

Cookies:
In large mixing bowl, cream together butter, shortening,
sugars, and peanut butter. Add eggs and vanilla.

In another bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, salt, and baking soda); then mix in with the creamed mixture.

Use a medium sized cookie scoop and scoop out cookies, then roll into a ball with your hands before putting it on a cookie sheet.

Bake about 10 minutes, or till golden brown. You don’t want these over baked! Allow to cool before filling.

Filling:
Beat together cream cheese, peanut butter, and Crisco until well combined, then add vanilla and powdered sugar.

(Note: the optional cocoa powder is for people like myself who LOVE anything with chocolate and peanut butter. I tried this for the first time, and actually wished I’d have added more, the chocolate flavor just barely came through).

Put a heaping scoop of filling on one the bottom side of one cookie, then top with another cookie.

These are best stored in the freezer.

Yield: approximately 3 dozen sandwich cookies.