Chewy and sweet lunch box treats.

Ingredients

• 160 ml (⅔ cup) butter, melted
• 140 ml (½ cup + 1 Tbsp) brown sugar
• 125 ml (½ cup) white sugar
• 250 ml (1 cup) creamy peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla essence
• 330 ml (1⅓) cup cake flour
• 5 ml (1 tsp) baking powder
• 5 ml (1 tsp) salt
• To sandwich together:
• 65 ml (1 C) smooth peanut butter
• Rhodes Quality Strawberry Jam

Method

1. Beat together the butter, brown and white sugars and peanut butter until smooth.
2. Add the egg and the vanilla essence and beat well.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. 
4. Add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined but do not overmix.
5. Roll the cookie dough into 24 even sized balls and place evenly spaced out on a lined baking tray.
6. Flatten each cookie with a fork.
7. Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180º for 12 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Cool.
9. Spread the flat side of a cookie with Rhodes Quality Strawberry Jam.
10. Spread the flat side of a second cookie with peanut butter, and sandwich the second cookie to the first.
11. Repeat with remaining cookies, peanut butter and jam.

Serving

Makes ± 24 cookies / 12 sandwiches

Cooking Times

Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Times: 15 minutes