Peanut Butter Blossoms

A classic cookie to have during the holidays or year-round are peanut butter blossoms. These peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s kiss smooshed in the middle of them are so soft, chewy, and oh so delicious.

If you like peanut butter, cookies, and chocolate, you will love these amazing cookies. What is not to like about that? The best part is they are incredibly easy to make. If I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get baking!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup softened room temp butter 113g
• 3/4 cup peanut butter 190g
• 1/3 cup white granulated sugar 75g
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 100g
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract 4ml
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 192g
• 1 tsp. baking soda 4g
• 1/2 tsp. table salt 2g
• 24 Hershey Kisses

Instructions

Begin by creaming together the butter and peanut butter in a large bowl. Then mix in the egg and vanilla extract.

Add both the white granulated sugar and brown sugar and cream those together with the other ingredients in the bowl.

Use a whisk or sifter and mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add half of those dry ingredients to the large bowl and mix them in. Then mix in the rest of the dry ingredients. Scrape the sides of the bowl as needed with a spatula. The peanut butter cookie dough will now be ready to go.

Unwrap 24 Hershey Kisses and place them in a bowl. Cover the cookie dough and chill in the fridge along with the Hershey's Kisses for about 1 hour. If you are in a hurry you can chill them both for less time.

Preheat the oven to 375 F/190 C. Use a tablespoon measuring spoon or cookie scoop or small ice cream scoop and scoop out enough dough to make a 1-inch ball, roll the dough in clean hands and then roll it in sugar. Place the ball dough on a parchment paper or silicone mat-lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.

Bake the cookies for 9 to 11 minutes until the tops are slightly cracked and slightly brown in some places. Let the peanut butter cookies cool on the pan for a couple of minutes and then press down a cold Hershey's Kiss in the middle of each cookie. They will crack more and spread out a little more. Allow them to cool for a few more minutes on the pan and then transfer them to a cookie rack to cool completely. Enjoy

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