Chocolate Kiss Peanut Butter Cookies

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5 from 2 votes

Chocolate Kiss Peanut Butter Cookies

Classic peanut butter blossom recipe, peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss baked in the center.

Prep Time20

Cook Time1

Total Time1 20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 117kcal

Author: Kelly Wildenhaus

Ingredients

2⅔ cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, very soft (2 sticks)
⅔ cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup golden brown sugar, firmly packed
2 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
5 dozen foil-wrapped chocolate kisses, unwrapped ~ I use Hershey's
Granulated sugar for rolling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375º. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt ~ set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter and peanut butter until well blended. Add 1 cup each of granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth, scraping down with a spatula as needed. Stir in flour on low speed, a little at a time, until well combined. Mix with a spatula to make sure all the flour is combined.
Shape into 5 dozen balls, using a level tablespoon of dough for each. Roll each ball in sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake 9 minutes, remove from oven and gently press kisses into tops of cookies. Return to oven for another 3 minutes. (My original recipe says 8 minutes and then 2 minutes ~ not long enough in my oven. Cookies should be lightly golden and not raw.)
Let cookies cool on pan for 2 minutes and then carefully remove to wire racks to cool completely. Makes 5 dozen cookies.

Notes

Just like the name, these are a peanut butter cookie with a chocolate kiss baked in the middle. Pretty simple, although baking is always a bit involved and cumbersome to me. You form the dough into balls, roll in sugar, bake for several minutes and then pop a kiss on top and bake a couple more minutes. After they cool, biting into one of these with the melted kiss and savory peanut butter cookie is heavenly and highly addictive.

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