K’s Peanut Butter Blossoms
Hershey’s Peanut Butter Blossoms!! These are my favorite holiday cookies of all time. I know that they’re probably not techically just for the holidays, but that’s when my mom would make them – so that’s what I associate them with! But K and I used her mom’s special recipe, which means I will post it here for you all to enjoy 🙂 We also used Hershey’s Rich Dark Chocolate Kisses to be different.
Ingredients (makes 24 blossoms):
- 1/3 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1.75 cups all-purpose flour
- 24 Hershey’s Rich Dark Chocolate Kisses
I used Maranatha Peanut Butter and it made the cookies so much more “natural” tasting! I love that stuff.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375* and combine the first four ingredients into a mixing bowl.
Stir until well blended. Then add in the egg, vanilla, salt and baking soda.
Stir again until well blended. Just follow the model:
That’d be my roomie 🙂 Then add in the flour and mix until the flour is completely integrated into the batter. At this point, you will have legitimate cookie dough. Consume if you want to 😉 Haha!
If you can resist the temptation to dig in with a spoon, parcel out the dough into tiny balls. I’d say they are just slightly smaller than a ping pong ball in size. Roll the balls in a small bowl of granulated sugar.
Once they are coated, space them out evenly on a cookie sheet.
Bake them in the oven at 375* for 8 minutes, or until dough begins to crack. You still want them to be pretty raw when you pull them out for the first time! Do not overcook! Place a chocolate kiss in the center of each cookie and push down lightly – the dough will crack even more.
Return the pan to the oven for another 2 minutes, or until the chocolate kisses are just slightly melted. Pull the pan back out of the oven and let cool for roughly 5 minutes. When cookies are movable, transfer them to a paper bag – this absorbs some of the oil from all that butter! It’s a neat little trick from K’s Mom!!
Now here’s the key: you MUST let these cookies cool for several hours! It takes a long time for the chocolate to set and hold sturdy, so be patient!
Nutrition Information (per cookie):
- 125 calories
- 5g fat
- 18g carbohydrates
- 1g fiber
- 2g protein
This looks really good– I am a big fan of eating healthy 95% of the time but sometimes you just HAVE to make dessert and do it right, you know?? I figure if you’re good most of the time you can stand to enjoy something delicious!
krissyrigo ~ I couldn’t agree more 🙂 It’s definitely better to have treats that you know are worth it than to spend time trying to find “trying to hard to be healthy” alternatives that taste like cardboard!
Mmmmmm these look so good! I love dark chocolate & PB. 😀
Thanks for the recipe!
You’re welcome! Glad you like the looks of it. They are phenomenal! 🙂