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.
Servings: 4 dozen
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.