Homemade Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Prep 30 minutes
- Cook 10 minutes
- Total 40 minutes
Homemade Peanut Butter Blossoms is a dessert recipe on Avoteb. Plan on 40 minutes from start to plate. The amounts and the method are both on this page.
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
Method
Freeze Hershey's kisses. Unwrap the Hershey's kisses (or mini peanut butter cups), place them on a plate and chill in the freezer until ready to use.
Stir the dry ingredients. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt until combined.
Stir the wet ingredients. Tip in 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. Tip in 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. Tip in in the flour mixture and meet on low speed for 1 minute, until
Chill the dough. Move the dough to a sealed food storage container and chill for about 1 hour. (Or see a speedier chilling method in the notes below.)
Prep the oven and baking sheet. Warm the oven to 375°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Prep the dough balls. Form the dough into a 1-tablespoon dough balls ball (the cook 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.
Roast Roast for 10 minutes, or until the cookies begin to slightly crack on top.
Tip in the kisses. Move 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!
