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Grandma’s Peanut Butter Blossom Recipe

If you love peanut butter cookies, you need to try peanut butter blossom cookies. They are simply a combination of peanut butter and chocolate kiss candies. But you need to have a good peanut butter cookie recipe. And that’s why you are here.

What Makes the Best Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies?

Peanut Butter – You want to use the peanut butter you love. Creamy peanut butter really gets peanut flavor into the cookie dough evenly. If you want a litlte crunch, you can add crunchy peanut butter (I suggest doing half crunchy half creamy for the most peanut flavor).
Vegetable shortening – I have used butter, but vegetable shortening gives the best crunchy exterior and soft interior (in my opinion).
Sugar – Both brown sugar and white sugar are used. The brown sugar gives a nice crispness to the cookies (it has molasses in it) and adds delicious flavor too.
Egg
Vanilla extract
Flour, brown sugar & white sugar and salt – Mix together before adding into the dough.
Hershey’s kisses to top the cookie.

vanilla extract into creamy peanut butter cookie dough

Can I Use Crunchy Instead of Creamy Peanut Butter?

For the best creamy peanut butter mixture, you will want to use creamy peanut butter. If you do want to use crunchy peanut butter, do it, but substitute half the amount of creamy wtih crunchy. That will give you the peanut butter flavor throught the cookie, and add a few chopped nuts. Or you could add in 1/2 cup chopped nuts into the mix as well.

Can I Make Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies Ahead of Time?

Yes. The cookie dough needs to chilled at least 30 minutes before baking. You can chill the dough, bake the cookies you want to eat now and roll the rest and freeze peanut butter blossoms for later baking.

Can I Freeze Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies?

Your cookies can be frozen for up to 2 months. We recommend rolling the dough into balls before freezeing making it easier to bake straight from the freezer.

To make the perfect peanut butter blossom, you will want want ot use creamy peanut butter for a rich and creamy flavor. Be sure to chill the dough for at least 30 minutes before baking to allow the flavors to meld together. Don’t overbake the cookies. You will want to bake the cookies until they are lightly golden brown and still soft in the center. Bake on parchment paper tohelp prevent the cookies from spreading too much.

Can I Use Different Type of Chocolate?

You can try whatever type of chocolate you want. If you want different flavored kisses, or an individual size mini candy (like mini Mr. Goodbars) work great. Or the tiny mini peanut butter cups would work too. Experiment to your tastes that compliment the peanut butter in the cookies.

Use natural peanut butter instead of creamy for a completly peanut flavor
Add mini peanut butter cups, chopped nuts or chocolate chips/chocolate chunks to the dough for added flavor and texture
Use different flavorited kisses or candies for a unique twist on the classic recipe

Perfect Your Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

You can start to experiment with the peanut butter recipe after you are comfortable with it. If you want to make changes immediately, go for it. Here are a few sugguestions:

Experiement with different kinds of peanut butter. Creamy peanut butter is the standard peanut butter, but you can use crunchy and extra crunchy also. You may not want as much flour, so monitor before adding all the flour in.
Add chopped peanuts nuts or dried fruits into the dough. You could also add mini chocolate chips.
Dip part of the cookie in chocolate after baking.
Use flavored kisses instead of milk chocolate kisses.

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Best Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Peanut butter blossom cookies are soft, chewy peanut butter treats topped with a rich, melty chocolate kiss. Perfect for the holidays or any time, these cookies bring together classic flavors in every bite.

Course: Baking, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: dozen

Author: Regina Sober

Equipment

Ingredients

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cream peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
unwrapped hershey kisses

Instructions

Preheat oven 375℉
In a large bowl cream together shortening and both sugars.
Add the peanut butter, vanilla and egg.
Mix using a hand mixer or stand mixer to blend together well.
Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add 1 cup flour mix into batter and mix before adding the rest.
You may find you need all or a little more flour. The dough should start to pull away from the bowl, and be easy to make into cookies. You want the dough to be firm, so you can roll it into balls, but not overly dry. It should roll into balls that are some what sticky.
Place the dough in the refrigerator and allow to chill for at least 30 minutes.
Scoop out a tablespoon size ball of dough.
Roll in your clean hand to form a ball.
Place on the cookie sheet.
Bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes until the edges are slightly brown.
Remove from the oven and place on the cooling tray.
Place an unwrapped Hershey kiss in the middle of each cookie and allow to cool.
Serve and enjoy. These cookies are a perfect treat year round.
If you don't want to make all the cookies, roll into balls and flash freeze on a baking sheet. Place into freezer bag dating and labeling the cookies to pull out when you want to bake.