Recipe For Cooking Banana-Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

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Banana-Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Makes approximately 3 dozen.

1/2 C. softened butter or margarine
1/2 C. solid vegetable shortening
1 C. plus 1/4 C. sugar, divided
1/2 C. packed brown sugar
2 lrg. ripe bananas, pureed or mashed (1 C.)
2 lrg. eggs
2 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
3 C. flour
1 tea. baking soda
1/4 tea. salt
1 tea. ground cinnamon
1 C. peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Beat together butter, vegetable shortening, 1 C. sugar and brown sugar until creamy. Beat in bananas, eggs and vanilla extract or flavoring.

Stir together flour, baking soda and salt until blended. Stir mixture into banana mixture until well blended.

Drop mixture by heaping rounded tea.ful onto unprepared cookie sheets.

Stir together remaining 1/4 C. sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle mixture over cookies. Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass. Bake 9 to 10 min., or until cookies are set and light brown around the edges (cookie tops will not brown). Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool.

Spread bottoms of half the cookies with peanut butter; top with a second cookie (bottoms together). Store cookies in a tightly covered container.

Per Serving: 174 calories, 10g fat (4g sat. 4g mono.), 21mg cholesterol, 117mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate, 1g fiber, 3g protein