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Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

December 14, 2021 by brooke 6 Comments

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Peanut butter blossom cookies are the perfect simple holiday cookie. A basic peanut butter cookie upgraded with a milk chocolate hershey kiss on top!

peanut butter blossom cookies stacked on top of each other with some bells and ornaments on the sides

PEANUT BUTTER BLOSSOM COOKIES

Who doesn't love a peanut butter blossom cookie?? I would say almost nobody! These are one of the most nostalgic Christmas cookies for me that I couldn't never skip a year of making. Growing up we had some neighbors that always brought them to us, and I would look forward to them every year. Now my kids look forward to me making them every year. Sometimes I even double the recipe and let them take plates to their friends because they are such a popular cookie.

peanut butter blossom cookies filling a cookie sheet and over flowing

WHY YOU WILL LOVE THESE COOKIES

Peanut Butter/Chocolate Combo- There perfect marriage of flavors between peanut butter and milk chocolate. A combo that everyone seems to love!

Quick & Easy- These cookies come together in less than 30 minutes with no chilling required.

Perfect for Gifts or Holiday Exchanges- This recipe makes about 40 cookies in one recipe, or can easily be doubled to make more than 80 cookies! Sound like a winner when you need a lot of cookies.

Fun to Bake with Kids- My kids always love helping with these cookies by unwrapping all of the hershey kisses and sticking them on the freshly baked cookies for me.

cookies lined up across a cookie sheet with a few ornaments instead of cookies

INGREDIENTS NEEDED

  • Shortening
  • Brown Sugar
  • Granulated Sugar
  • Peanut Butter
  • Egg
  • Milk
  • Vanilla
  • Baking Soda
  • Salt
  • Flour
  • Hershey Kisses
  • Flaked Sea Salt
peanut butter blossom cookies scattered with bells and hershey kisses

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 375 F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.

In a medium bowl cream together butter and sugars until smooth. Add peanut butter and stir until combined.

Next add in egg, milk and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.

Baking soda, salt and flour are added last, and mix until just combined. Do not over mix dry ingredients.

Using a 2 teaspoon cookie scoop, scoop dough into balls and roll in sugar. Place on prepared cookie sheets. These cookies do not spread much, so you can place about 20 per cookie sheet. Sprinkle cookies with a little flaked sea salt.

peanut butter blossom cookie dough
rolling cookies in sugar
cookies on pan before baking

Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are beginning to crinkle and puff up a bit. As soon as you've removed the cookies from the oven, stick a hershey kiss on top of each cookie. Place cookies into the fridge after for about 10-15 minutes so that the chocolate remains firm.

peanut butter blossom cookies out of the oven
placing hershey kisses on top
cookies ready to chill

QUICK TIPS

I have found that most recipes for these cookies have you baking a larger cookie, and I don't love that cookie to hershey kiss ratio as well. I would suggest using a 2 teaspoon cookie scoop if you have one, or a 1 tablespoon if not. If the cookies are too large you don't get a bit of chocolate with every bite.

I love to have a firm and pretty hershey kiss on top, so I love to chill these cookies for about 10-15 minutes after sticking the kiss on top to keep it from melting a bit when pressed into the warm cookie.

Using a scale will result in a more precise cookie every time. It also helps with a cleaner process because you don't have to measure out each individual ingredient, and let me tell you... peanut butter is messy!

These cookies will store for 2-3 days in an airtight container, or for a few months if kept in the freezer.

close up of layered peanut butter blossom cookies

IF YOU LOVE PEANUT BUTTER YOU SHOULD ALSO TRY:

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Marshmallow Brownies

Peanut Butter Snickers Cheesecake

Chewy Monster Cookies

For more yummy treats follow me on instagram @thesaltedsweets. And be sure to tag me and comment below if you make them and love them as much as I do.

peanut butter blossom cookies all stacked on top of each other in the pan.

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

brooke
Peanut butter blossom cookies are the perfect simple holiday cookie. A basic peanut butter cookie upgraded with a hershey kiss on top!
5 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 8 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 42
Calories 121 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • ½ cup shortening
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter not natural
  • 1 large egg room temp
  • 2 tablespoon milk room temp
  • 1½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar for rolling cookies in
  • flaked sea salt for sprinkling on top
  • 10 oz bag hershey kisses unwrapped

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • In a medium bowl cream together shortening and sugars until smooth. Add peanut butter and mix again.
  • Add in egg, milk and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.
  • Add baking soda, salt and flour and mix until just combined. Do not over mix dry ingredients.
  • Using a 2 teaspoon cookie scoop, scoop dough into balls and roll in sugar. Place on prepared cookie sheets. These cookies do not spread much, so you can place about 20 per cookie sheet. Sprinkle cookies with a little flaked sea salt.
  • Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are beginning to crinkle and puff up a bit. As soon as you've removed the cookies from the oven, stick a hershey kiss on top of each cookie. Place cookies into the fridge for about 10-15 minutes after so that the chocolate remains firm.

Notes

These cookies can be stored for 2-3 days in an airtight container, or in the freezer for 2-3 months.
These cookies work great with all different flavors of hershey kisses as well. We have tried and loved the plain chocolate, caramel center and peppermint.
Make sure room temperature ingredients are used to help the batter mix together properly.
I have given both cups and grams as measurements. Grams will be more precise, especially when measuring flour. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, no problem! Just lightly spoon flour into your measuring cup to insure its not packed in there. Light and fluffy is the key.

Nutrition

Calories: 121kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 76mgPotassium: 32mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 8IUCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg
Keyword hershey kiss, peanut butter blossom, peanut butter cookie
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Comments

  1. Samme

    December 14, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    Hi! Do you have any alternatives for shortening? Can you swap it for butter/whipped butter?

    Reply
    • brooke

      December 14, 2021 at 1:31 pm

      You can use butter instead, although they will spread more.

      Reply
  2. Lexie

    December 19, 2021 at 10:18 am

    Hi! When you say not natural peanut butter do you mean it needs sugar in it?

    Reply
    • brooke

      December 19, 2021 at 3:51 pm

      Any peanut butter that doesn't separate would work, but yes I usually use skippy of JIF that contains a bit of sugar.

      Reply
      • Lexie

        December 20, 2021 at 5:17 pm

        Okay thank you so much! One more question.. I’m having a hard time finding flaked sea salt. Is there a substitution?

        Reply
        • brooke

          December 22, 2021 at 5:22 pm

          You can just skip it altogether, no big deal!

          Reply

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