Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, at room temperature
  • 12 cup granulated sugar
  • 14 cup packed brown sugar
  • 23 cup natural-style peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 34 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups flour
  • 34 cup raspberry jam

Method

  • Beat the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed 1 minute.
  • Gradually add the sugars, beating until well blended, about 1 1/2 minutes.
  • Mix the peanut butter, vanilla and salt; lower the speed to medium low.
  • Beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes; lower the speed to low.
  • Beat in the flour slowly, until just blended.
  • Turn the dough out onto a work surface; divide the dough in half.
  • Shape into 2 disks.
  • Wrap each disk inplastic; refridgerate untill chilled, about 2 hours (dough can be chilled up to 2 days).
  • Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Place one of the chilled disks on a lightly floured work surface; roll the dough to a thicknes of less than 1/4 inch.
  • Cut into cookies with a 1 3/4 inch round cookie cutter; transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing cookies about 3/4 inch apart.
  • (Gather up scraps; rewrap.
  • Chill 15 minutes before rerolling and cutting.
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  • Bake one cookie sheet at a time until cookies are just firm but not browned, 18-20 minutes.
  • Cool on a baking sheets 10 minutes; transfer to a wire rack.
  • Cool completely.
  • Repeat with remaining dough.
  • Spread half of the cookies with 1 tsp of of raspberry jam each; top with remaining cookies, forming sandwiches.