One of our families favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe is for peanut butter blossom cookies! We love this classic peanut butter blossoms recipe that combines an easy peanut butter dough with chocolate for a pretty, yummy treat! We make these Hershey kiss cookies in December; they are a classic for our cookie plate, but you could easily serve these all year look. Your family will love these Christmas cookies ideas!
Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe
This peanut blossom cookie recipe is our family favorite tweaks to a classic recipe that combines a delightful peanut butter cookie with a pretty and delicious hershey kiss. These peanut butter blossoms cookies are a staple on our Christmas cookie platter. They are so easy to make and so yummy, they are always one of the first to get made in our house!
Peanut butter blossom cookies
All you need to make these classic peanut butter cookies are a few simple ingredients:
- shortening or butter
- peanut butter
- granulated white sugar
- brown sugar
- egg
- milk
- vanilla extract
- all purpose flour
- baking soda
- salt
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Preheat the oven to 375 F. Cream together 1/2 cup shortening & 3/4 cup peanut butter in a bowl until well blended.
Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and 1/3 cup brown sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
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Add 1 egg, 2 Tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; beat well.
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Stir in1 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt; to peanut butter mixture.
Peanut blossom cookies
Shape dough into 1” balls,, these are smaller than traditional cookies for the best chocolate to peanut butter ratio! Now roll dough ball in sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
HINT: I like to line mine with parchment paper to make clean-up a snap!
Peanut butter blossom cookie recipe
Bake the cookies 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie. The cookie will crack around the edges.
With a spatula, remove each cookie from the cookie sheet to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Store in airtight container.
pb blossoms
Aren’t they so pretty?! These are so easy, but lovely to look at too!
pb blossoms cookies
Wait to stack the cookies until the chocolate cools, or you will need to stack them carefully like shown above as the chocolate is soft after pressing on the cookie.
My favorite time to eat these is semi-warm from the oven when the cookie is set, but the chocoalte is still melty. Yummy!
Peanut blossom cookie recipe
Try our families favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe for peanut butter blossom! Hershey kiss cookies are pretty and yummy idea for December.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening or butter
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1.5 cups all pupose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sugar for rolling
- 60 unwrapped chocolate hershey kisses
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 F. Cream together 1/2 cup shortening & 3/4 cup cpeanut butter in a bowl until well blended; add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and 1/3 cup brown sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg, 2 Tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; beat well.
- Stir in1 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt; to peanut butter mixture.
- Shape dough into 1” balls,, these are smaller than traditional cookies for the best chocolate to peanut butter ratio! Now roll dough ball in sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. HINT: I like to line mine with parchment paper to make clean-up a snap!
- Bake the cookies 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie. The cookie will crack around the edges. With a spatula, remove each cookie from the cookie sheet to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.Store in airtight container.
