Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

We wanted a cookie so packed with peanut flavor that it needed no crosshatch to ­identify it.

SERVES Makes 24 cookies

TIME 1½ hours,plus 1 hour cooling, and 1 hour setting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Peanut butter flavor molecules can be trapped by flour in baked applications, so we ratcheted up the flavor’s intensity by sandwiching an uncooked peanut butter filling between our cookies. Adding a full cup of confectioners’ sugar to the f...

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