Banana Bread Cookie Sandwiches with Chocolate Peanut Butter Filling
Peanut butter and chocolate is a classic, and it just became so much more fun when paired with banana bread bites! These Banana Bread Cookie Sandwich Bites with Chocolate Peanut Butter Filling are a small, sweet treat to add some pep to your step, and what could knock this flavor combo?
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 cups 190 g old fashioned oats
- 3 ripe medium-size bananas
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅓ cup 60 g chocolate chips
Filling
- ½ cup 115 g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 ½ 180 g cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup 67 g chocolate peanut butter
- 2 - 3 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Blend the oats in a food processor or blender until they resemble a fine powder. It is okay if you have large pieces of oat. Add the salt, cinnamon and baking powder.
- Mash your bananas. If you don't have ripe bananas, heat your bananas in the oven at 300 degrees F for 10 minutes, then mash.
- Mix in the butter to the banana mash, then add the vanilla extract.
- Add the oat flour mixture to the bananas. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Form your cookies - they should be about 1 - 1 ½ inches wide and approximately ¼ of an inch thick. The dough does not really melt or change from the original shape you create, so keep this in mind.
- Bake for 8 - 10 minutes.
Filling
- Cream the butter until light and fluffy.
- Slowly add the powdered sugar ¼ cup at a time, making sure it is fully incorporated before adding in more sugar.
- Add the chocolate peanut butter and mix well. Add in the heavy cream until the frosting is a nice smooth consistency, about 2 - 3 tablespoons.
Assembly
- Top half the cookies with the filling and sandwich them with the remaining cookies.
Notes
Keep in an airtight container up to three days.