Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie Recipe

One of our favorite holiday cookies is the peanut butter blossom cookie. Also known as peanut butter kiss cookies, this is the Christmas cookie with the soft peanut butter cookie base and a Hershey kiss pressed into it while the cookie is still warm. These kiss cookies are freezer friendly.

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookie Ingredients:

• 48 Hershey’s Kisses
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup Reese’s Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup additional granulated sugar for rolling

Hershey Kisses

Remove all the wrappers from the chocolate kisses.

*great kid project.

Preheat oven to 375°F.

1. Beat shortening and peanut butter in large bowl until well blended.
2. Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy.
3. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well.
4. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.

Shaping the blossom cookies

Shape dough into 1-inch balls. We use a small cookie scoop to make consistent shaped cookies.

Roll in granulated sugar.

We use a small bowl with the sugar and swirl it around until each ball is coated.

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, a cookie sheet line with parchment paper OR a sil pat matt.  As you can see, we are fans of the sil pat matt.

Bake the peanut butter cookies

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes or until slightly brown.

These were 10 minutes in a gas oven.

Hershey’s Peanut Butter Blossoms

Immediately press a chocolate into center of each cookie.

Don’t freak out if the cookie cracks around edges, that is the way it is supposed to happen.

As soon as all the kisses have been pressed into the peanut butter cookie, immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

I have found that if you don’t move them quickly, the kisses will soften and loose the classic kiss shape. This is how you get the bloom of the blossom cookie.

Cool completely.

More Christmas Cookie Recipes:

• Orange Chocolate Almond Biscotti Recipe
• Almond biscotti recipe with cranberries
• Classic Almond Macaroons

To make the cooling go faster I pop them in freezer or if it is winter, I set them outside to cool quickly.

Each recipe is suppose to make 48 peanut butter blossom cookies.

I have yet to make 48 cookies because we keep eating either the kisses or the peanut butter dough!

Can someone pass me a glass of milk?

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Calories: 3020

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

• 48 Hershey's Kisses
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup Reese's Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup additional granulated sugar for rolling

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Nutrition Facts

Classic Hershey’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Kiss Blossom Cookie Recipe

Amount Per Serving (48 g)

Calories 3020 Calories from Fat 1566

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 174g 268%

Saturated Fat 65g 325%

Cholesterol 221mg 74%

Sodium 2529mg 105%

Potassium 300mg 9%

Total Carbohydrates 346g 115%

Dietary Fiber 10g 40%

Sugars 193g

Protein 42g 84%

Vitamin A 4.8%

Calcium 52.3%

Iron 64.1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates.

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