Homemade Nutter Butters are a literal game changer. They are soft, with crisp edges, loaded with peanut butter flavor and filled with a delicious peanut butter buttercream!
Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies Are INSANELY Delicious!
Ok, so Nutter Butter Cookies from the supermarket are good, they are. And surely, the whole idea of making Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies is totally extra…but friends, these are REALLY good. Like omg YESSSSS good. Plus, you probably have all the Nutter Butter Ingredients in your kitchen right now!AND they’re soft, so they kinda win by default.
Soft cookies > Hard cookies all day everyday.
Why Make Nutter Butters At Home?
Of course picking up that package at he store is easy, I get it. But this homemade version will have you doing a happy dance. The cookies are soft peanut butter cookies with lightly crisp and buttery edges. And they sandwich the most dreamy peanut butter buttercream of all times. If you are a peanut butter lover, this is the cookie for you.
How To Make Homemade Nutter Butters Step by Step:
The steps are easy, but there are a few. Stay with me.
Of course, you will need peanut butter…
You’ll be using it in the cookie dough and the filling.
The dough comes together quickly, but you will need to chill it for an hour, so it’s easy to roll into little logs.
You’ll roll them in some granulated sugar, and then use a fork to create the criss-cross shape.
Then give the center a pinch, to get the classic Nutter Butter shape!
Then bake them until they are golden brown at the edges.
NOTE – if they spread too much while they’re baking, just give the middles a little pinch while they’re warm to keep the shape!
Let them cool, make your filling and pair them up to create the sandwiches.
You won’t ever want to buy store bought Nutter Butters again!
I’ll take 4 please!
PIN for later:
Enjoy!
Looking For More Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes? Try These:
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
- Soft Peanut Butter Cookies
- Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Homemade Nutter Butters
- Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Homemade Nutter Butters are a peanut butter lovers dream!
Ingredients
Cookies:
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/3 cup extra granulated sugar for rolling
Filling:
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter, room temperature
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
Instructions
Cookies:
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment mix the butter, peanut butter, and both sugars together until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes on medium speed. Add in eggs, vanilla, baking soda, and baking powder continuing to mix until combined, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Turn the mixer to low and add in flour, mixing until just combined. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Form the chilled dough into 1- inch balls and then roll them into a log shape. Coat each log in granulated sugar and place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Using a fork, press down on the dough creating a criss-cross pattern. Pinch the center to create the peanut shape.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes until edges are lightly golden. Cool on baking sheet 2-3 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to continue cooling.
Filling:
- In the clean bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and peanut butter together on medium speed until smooth. Slowly add in the powdered sugar and beat until filling is smooth. Add your milk, one tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.
- Spread a heaping tablespoon of filling onto the bottom of one of the peanut butter cookies and then top with another cookie to create sandwich.
Notes
*if your cookies spread too much pinch the middles when they come out of the oven so your “nut” shape is preserved!
store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories: 440
- Sugar: 31.3 g
- Sodium: 139.2 mg
- Fat: 27.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 44.7 g
- Protein: 7.3 g
- Cholesterol: 56.2 mg
My three year old will be so excited. He was eating nutter butters the other morning and said mommy, these would be even better if you could make them from scratch. You know everything tastes better from scratch. Let’s just whip up a batch of them right now. Thankfully he does not share your hubby’s and my hubby’s opinion of cookies from a box.
Oh, there is definitely a reason to make these at home – ’cause if you’re gluten-free you can’t eat the ones from the store. (Yes, I know this recipe isn’t GF, either, but the recipe can be adapted – the premade cookies can’t be!)
Haven’t read 50 Shades of Grey personally, so I can’t comment on the writing quality, but I have to say that I quite enjoyed reading all of the disparaging reviews on Amazon. THEY are well-written, anyway – and hilarious!
Leave the husband, keep the cookies. He clearly needs professional help if he doesn’t like homemade.
Do you think these would work with sunnut butter or soynut butter?
I haven’t ever done it, but I think they would!
These cookies are fabulous, but i made mine too big and they stuck together..Lol oh well at least I can still eat them. Haha the recipe makes like 35 cookies…well more cookies for me!
Okay, I just made these. Literally just made the frosting and smushed them together, took a bite, and… had to run to the computer to express my love. Yummmm. I halved the recipe and only ended up with nine, so I think I may have made them a bit too big but whose complaining about giant nutter butters? Not this girl. I’m going to have a hard time only eating one tonight and I’m seriously considering hiding them so no one can find them in the morning. Thanks for this!
Yay!! So glad you like them 🙂
I used this recipe with all natural peanut butter and made it into a cookie bar. It was fabulous! A perfect peanut butter cookie recipe
Thank you! I have been seriously craving some dessert, but every time I look at the refrigerated dough in the grocery store I just can’t do it. So I thought to myself, where can I find some cookies to make out of ingredients I already have? I’m too broke top buy anything extra, btw. Of course my Self said, “Shelly!” because Self thinks that you two are personal friends that you can ref*er to by first name, while I just admire you, your blog and baking skills.
Of course we are on a first name basis! THanks so much!
Thank you! My husband loves Nutter Butters, but can no longer eat them since he discovered that he has a gluten sensitivity. I can make these with alternative flours and he can have them again.
as soon as I stop drooling, I will say yummy and I am going to try these!!