Peanut Butter Blossoms

Ingredients
- 36 Hershey’s Kisses (or mini peanut butter cups)
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt*
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated (white) sugar, plus extra for rolling
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter*
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1
Freeze Hershey's kisses.
- 2
Unwrap the Hershey’s kisses (or mini peanut butter cups), place them on a plate and chill in the freezer until ready to use.
- 3
Mix the dry ingredients
- 4
In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt until combined.
- 5
Mix the wet ingredients.
- 6
Add the butter, white sugar and brown sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer. (Or alternately, you can use a hand mixer with a large mixing bowl.) Beat the butter and sugars together on medium-high speed for 2 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add in the peanut butter, egg, milk and vanilla extract and beat on low speed for 1 minute, until combined, pausing to scrape down the sides of the bowl whenever needed. Add in the flour mixture and meet on low speed for 1 minute, until combined.
2 min - 7
Chill the dough.
- 8
Transfer the dough to a sealed food storage container and chill for about 1 hour. (Or see a speedier chilling method in the notes below.)
- 9
Prep the oven and baking sheet
- 10
Heat the oven to 375°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 11
Prep the dough balls.
- 12
Form the dough into a 1-tablespoon dough balls ball (I find it’s easiest to do this with a small cookie scoop), gently roll the balls in granulated white sugar until evenly coated, and place on the prepared baking sheet at least 2 inches apart.
- 13
Bake.
- 14
Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies begin to slightly crack on top.
10 min - 15
Add the kisses.
- 16
Transfer the baking sheet to a wire cooling rack. Then immediately take the frozen Hershey’s kisses and press them gently into the middle of the cookies. Let the cookies cool to room temperature…then enjoy!




