Peanut Butter Blossoms

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 25 mins
  • Yield: 48cookies
  • About This Recipe

    “My mom made these cookies all the time when I was little, now I like to make them for my kids.”

    Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cupsflour
  • 1teaspoonbaking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoonsalt
  • 1/2 cupsugar
  • 1/2 cupbrown sugar
  • 1teaspoonvanilla
  • 1/2 cupshortening
  • 1/2 cuppeanut butter
  • 1egg
  • 2tablespoonsmilk
  • additional sugar
  • 48Hershey chocolate kisses( unwrapped)
  • Directions

  • Combine shortening, sugars, egg, vanilla and peanut butter.
  • Add dry ingredients and milk.
  • Shape dough into small balls, then roll in sugar.
  • Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake 10 minutes at 350.
  • Place a kiss in middle of each cookie pressing until the edges crack.
  • Reviews

  • “Delicious! In my oven, they should be baked about 9 minutes, and I used the tip of putting the Hershey Kiss on before the final minute of baking, which worked nicely, although it would be enough to stick it onbefore the final 10 seconds.”

  • “This is exactly the way I make my peanut blossom cookies!I made a triple batch yesterday and can’t keep the kids (or myself) out of them.I hoped they’d last till Christmas, but….??”

  • “Thanks for sharing this great classic recipe. The only problem I had with it, was staying out of them. We put Hershey Hugs on half of the cookies and Hershey dark chocolate Kisses on the other half. This recipe was great, my 11 year old son made this with minimal help. “

  • “I love these cookies! They’re great!”

  • “Very good cookies.I use chunky peanut butter for added crunch and butter-flavored shortening for better flavor.”

  • “To Belinda McManaway:Thanks for sharing your recipe for Peanut Butter Blossoms.They are to die for!They’re soft and sweet and the kiss is just slightly melted.I’ve made a similar cookie every Christmas for years, but they sure don’t measure up to yours.Do believe I’ll use your recipe from now on!Sincerely,Laudee”

  • “My kids loved this recipe!!”

  • “This was delicious. The recipe made 50. Like others, I cooked them for a minute after adding the kiss. Delicious!”

  • “These were good, but I’ve had better…they didn’t have enough of a peanut butter flavor, though.My friend made some at the same time that we liked better, and apparently all she did was use a mix of pb cookies and throw a hershey kiss on top.I think we’ll be doing that next time, thanks for posting, though!”

  • “These are evil. We had company over for dinner and ate the entire batch.Our only substitution was using egg beaters rather than eggs. When you do this, it is safe to eat the raw cookie dough!”

  • “Directly off the Hershey’s website.The one I was looking for.”

  • “What lovely little Christmas delights these are.On a snowy blowy pre-Christmas day these little morsels are nothing short of buttery goodness!!!The added kiss to a shortbread cookie brings these over the top.
    Made for RecipeTag and 24 Days of Cookies in KK’s forum~”

  • “Fantastic and easy!I accidentally used two eggs instead of one but I think it was a good mistake… especially after some reviews complain of a crumbly dough.Will use two eggs from now on.This recipe made 28 cookies for us.I was using a cookie scoop so they were pretty large.Thanks!”

  • “The dough was REALLY sticky, I even refrigerated for an hour.After they were baked, the flavor was a little bland, maybe needs more sugar and peanut butter.They were also kind of crumbly as well after baked.”

  • “Very good cookie! I doubled the recipe and added 2 cups of peanut butter- and they taste fantastic! I found the dough to be really hard to roll because it was crumbly ( I know it’s not due to the peanut butter because my Niece made them without any extra and hers were even worse) but I scooped up some dough and “squished it together” and that made it slightly easier to roll. My cookies took 14 minutes to cook ( extra peanut butter takes longer) and they came out slightly chewy and sooo good.”

  • “Holy Moly! These are amazing!! I used butter flavored crisco and mini reese’s peanut butter cups instead of kisses. I added the candy 1 minute before pulling these out of the oven. Thank you for this amazing recipe. The cookie even without candy is perfect! crisp outside, soft chewy middle!!! yum”

  • “This is very similar to the recipe I use, but I replace the Chocolate kisses with Dove chocolate hearts.They are perfect to make around Valentine’s Day!”

  • “Excellent.Everything a Peanut Butter Blossom should be: easy to make, fun to put together, and so incredibly good!Thanks for sharing.You’ve turned my hubby – a self described PB Blossom hater into a lover!”

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