Around the holidays we always make stained class cookies, cream cheese spritz cookies and these delicious little peanut butter blossoms. Chocolate and peanut butter is a flavor combination that never goes out of style!
Peanut Butter Blossoms Ingredients
To make peanut butter blossoms you will need butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, an egg, milk, vanilla, flour, baking soda, salt and chocolate kiss candies. These cookies are one of my favorite Christmas recipes. If you are looking for more holiday cheer check out my Christmas punch, Christmas cookie dough dip, reindeer chow and some of my handpicked favorite holiday recipes.
How Do You Make Peanut Butter Blossoms?
Start this peanut butter blossoms recipe by making a peanut butter cookie dough. Place butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in a stand mixer or use an electric hand mixer and beat them together. Add the wet ingredients, the egg, milk and vanilla extract and mix them in. Add flour, baking soda and salt. Mix them until just combined. Chill the dough and form it into balls. Roll the balls in sugar, place them on a baking sheet, chill them and bake them. While the cookies are still warm, a Hershey’s Kiss gets pressed into the top. The chocolate melts a bit and adheres to the cookie. Let the cookies sit for a bit so that the chocolate can firm back up, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Cookies
Your balls of dough should be around 1 inch in size. If you go larger, the cookie to chocolate ratio will be off and they won’t look quite as pretty. Have your Hershey’s Kisses unwrapped and ready before you take the baked cookies out of the oven. Unwrapping the chocolates is a great job for little helpers. I bake the cookies on a baking mat on the cookie sheet so that the cookies are easy to take off the sheet pan. Firmly press you Hershey’s Kisses into the cookies so that they stick. The cookies will crack a bit which is normal. After the peanut butter blossoms have Hershey’s Kisses, you can place them on a wire rack for cooling.
Flavor Variations
These peanut butter cookies are fantastic, but you can modify them to feature your favorite flavors.
Kisses: There’s no need to stick to plain chocolate Hershey’s Kisses. You can use different flavors of Kisses or even holiday varieties for these peanut butter blossoms. Candies: You can use other small chocolate candies like caramel chocolates or small peanut butter cups instead of chocolate kisses. Sugar: You can roll your balls of dough in granulated sugar like I’ve done here, or you can use colored sugar for the holidays, sprinkles, or even a coarser sanding sugar for a different look.
While I make these peanut butter blossoms year round, they’re especially good for the holidays. I package the cookies in little tins or cellphone bags and give them out to family, friends and teachers. Everyone just loves to receive a home baked treat!
Peanut Butter Blossoms Video
