Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookie thingys

We had a friend coming to visit today, and she was bringing me some homemade cherry jam. So I decided to have something for her to take in exchange, and made these Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookie Thingys. I should come up with a better name to start.

First I started off just making these:

Then I decided to make them smaller:

So that I could make these:

And these were FABULOUS--- of course so were just the cookies too. Here's the recipe.

The base is an Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookie:

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup margarine

1 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup white sugar

1 cup peanutbutter- chunky.

Blend those all together,

then add 2 eggs and mix well.

Then add 1.5 cups flour, 2 tsps baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt. Mix well.

Then add a little under 2 cups of quick-oats. Mix well.

At this point you could stop and have yourself a fabulous cookie after baking at 350 for about 12-15 minutes. Or you could mix in Choc Chips for Oatmeal PB Choc Chip cookies. Those are yummy too.

Or you could make them smaller (in which case I used my small pampered chef scoop), and sandwich them together with your favorite chocolate frosting. You can cheat and use a canned frosting which is perfectly fine. I like the chocolate frosting recipe found on the back of the Hershey's Cocoa Powder can. If you do 1/2 that recipe you'll have just the right amt of frosting to make this batch into sandwiches.

Enjoy! Let me know if you make them!