Perfect Peanut Butter Blossoms
Simple, classic and iconic, these peanut butter blossoms are Christmas baking at it’s best! They are soft & chewy (and stay that way!), coated in crackly, sparkling sugar, and have a chocolate Hershey’s Kiss in the center of each cookie. They are one of our all-time favorite Christmas cookies!
When it comes to Christmas cookies, these are the first to be made in our house, every single year. Who doesn’t love a classic, perfect peanut butter blossom after all? They are soft & chewy with a crackle of sugar that each ball of cookie dough is rolled in just before baking and the Hershey’s Kiss provides the ultimate chocolate/peanut butter combination. We are especially crazy for them when the cookies are still warm and the chocolate gets all melted from the heat of the cookie before it sets up again.
I’m not really sure when or why or how peanut butter blossoms came to be associated with Christmas since there is nothing inherently Christmas-y about them in terms of how they look or having seasonal flavors. But they certainly are perfect for taking to a cookie swap or leaving out for Santa on Christmas Eve. We will for sure be making more batches of these before December is over!
Ingredients :
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 36 unwrapped Hershey's Kisses (a little less than one bag)
- Extra 1/4 cup sugar, for rolling
Instructions :
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Unwrap the Hershey's Kisses.
- Combine all ingredients except the Hershey's Kisses and extra rolling sugar in the large bowl of a stand mixer. Mix well until combined.
- Scoop out small, tablespoon size amounts of dough and roll into balls between your palms, then roll each ball in the extra sugar in a shallow bowl. Place on a baking sheet spaced an inch or two apart, then bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Don't let these overbake - I almost always pull them out at the 8-9 minute mark.
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