Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe: Hershey’s Classic

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A peanut butter blossoms recipe straight from your childhood, this Hershey’s classic is soft and chewy just like you remember. This easy peanut butter cookie recipe goes together fast – in no time at all you’ll be munching one and washing it down with cold milk. You DO wash it down with milk, right? They freeze well, too.

For this recipe you’ll need: sugar, light brown sugar, butter, peanut butter, egg, vanilla, baking soda, flour, Hershey’s kisses

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I don’t know why I don’t use this peanut butter blossoms recipe all year long but I don’t. Most of the year, when I bake cookies, I make a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe, peanut butter cookies, or my favorite oatmeal cookies. Admittedly, I’m baking cookies a lot less than I used to.

It’s funny how you go through life feeling like nothing ever changes and then, all of a sudden, you realize that you’re in a completely new stage. I mean, it seemed like the season was neverending when the kids were small. All of the messes. All of the sleep deprived nights. All of the rocking, and nursing, and changing. My youngest is in her last year of Jr. High, my oldest four have moved away from home (well, one moved back in last year but still…) two are in college…

I’m feelin’ it, y’all. I’m not ready for the mom stage of my life to be over. I miss making those memories with my kids – oh I know I can make memories with the grandkids and I do as much as I can but it’s different.

We eat out more often, just my husband and I, because everyone is at activities and it’s just us. The house is quieter than it used to be and family dinners are often get your own due to schedules. When the cookie jar IS full the cookies often last long enough to get stale.

Inconceivable. I don’t think that’s ever happened before.

One of the things I really like about these peanut butter kiss cookies is that they freeze so well, either baked or unbaked, so I can make a full batch then have them on hand. I prefer to freeze them unbaked so that I can serve them fresh and warm, with the Hershey’s Kiss melting in the center.

To Freeze Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies –

1. Form the dough into balls and roll in the sugar.
2. Place them close together on a cookie sheet.
3. Put the cookie sheet in the freezer until the balls of dough are completely frozen.
4. Take off the cookie sheet, toss in a freezer container, and return to the freezer.
5. When you’re ready for some cookies take out as many dough balls as you need.
6. Put them about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
7. Bake as directed (but they may need an extra few minutes).
8. Remove from the oven and add the Hershey’s Kisses as directed in the recipe.

See? Easy!

They also are the perfect cookie for sending to school because they just don’t crumble easily when they’re jiggling around in a lunch box.

Variations on Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe

These classic Hershey’s peanut butter kiss cookies are versatile, too. By the way, do you call them peanut butter blossoms or peanut butter kiss cookies? Honestly, here they are forever known as “those peanut butter cookies with the Hershey’s in the middle”.

Anyway…

You can use them for any occasion that calls for cookies simply by using colored sugar to roll the peanut butter cookie dough in before baking. Here are some of my other favorite variations on the classic Hershey’s peanut butter blossoms recipe-

• Use Hershey’s Hugs
• Use almond butter in place of the peanut butter and almond extract in place of the vanilla
• Use Reeses Peanut Butter Cups instead of Kisses
• Roll in powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar
• Use a Rolo instead of a Kiss
• Use one of the filled types of kisses
• Drizzle with melted chocolate or white chocolate once they’re cool
• My Red Velvet Peppermint Kiss cookies are probably my favorite variation
• The coarser the sugar the more crunchy the outside of the cookie will be so try different types of sugar crystals like turbinado, raw sugar, etc.

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Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe

There’s more than one Peanut Butter Blossoms recipe floating around but this is my favorite. The cookies have lots of peanut butter flavor, they’re chewy, and they’re made with butter, not shortening. They’re one of my favorite Christmas cookies recipes to make with kids because even little kids can unwrap the Kisses!

These cookies ship really well and are good for sending to loved ones away at college or in the military.

You just can’t go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter together! If you like this recipe please consider leaving a 5 star rating. 🙂

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

15 mins

 

A peanut butter blossoms recipe straight from your childhood, this Hershey's classic is soft and chewy just like you remember. This easy peanut butter cookie recipe goes together fast - in no time at all you'll be munching one and washing it down with cold milk. They freeze well, too.

Course: Dessert - Cookies

Cuisine: American - Vintage

Servings: 48

Calories: 94 kcal

Author: Marye Audet

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter ,softened
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar ,firmly packed
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 cup vanilla sugar ,or plain granulated sugar
• 48 Hershey's Kisses ,unwrapped

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Combine the butter and peanut butter in bowl.

3. Beat until well blended.

4. Add both the granulated and brown sugars and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.

5. Add egg, vanilla and salt; continue beating until well blended.

6. Add flour and baking soda then beat at low speed, scraping bowl often, until it's completely mixed.

7. Shape dough into 1-inch balls.

8. Roll balls in 1/4 cup vanilla sugar.

9. Place 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
10. Bake 8-10 minutes.
11. Gently press 1 chocolate kiss in center of each cookie.

12. Let cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.

13. Place in freezer for about 10 minutes or until the chocolate hardens back up.
14. Remove from freezer.

Nutrition Facts

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Amount Per Serving

Calories 94 Calories from Fat 36

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 4g 6%

Saturated Fat 2g 10%

Cholesterol 9mg 3%

Sodium 58mg 2%

Potassium 26mg 1%

Total Carbohydrates 12g 4%

Sugars 8g

Protein 1g 2%

Vitamin A 1.3%

Calcium 1.4%

Iron 1.9%

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

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