Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Soft and chewy, these Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies (aka Hershey Kiss Cookies) are the perfect treat to satisfy your chocolate peanut butter fix!
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 234kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup Unsalted butter softened
- 1 large egg
- 2 ½ cup flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 36 Hershey kisses or Hugs
- 2 cups sugar to roll cookies in
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat
- Using a hand mixer or standing mixer, beat together the sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, shortening, butter, and egg until combined and smooth
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt
- Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet until combined and a dough forms
- Using a small ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough onto your hands
- Roll the dough into a ball
- Pour the two cups of sugar into a bowl
- Roll the cookie dough into the sugar and then place onto the cookie sheet
- Repeat steps with remaining dough
- Place the cookies into the oven and bake for 11 minutes
- While the cookie are baking, remove the wrappers from the Hershey kisses
- Once the cookies come out of the oven, allow them to cool slightly for 1-2 minutes
- Place the Hershey kisses into the center of the cookies and allow to continue to cool for 5 more minutes before moving to a wire rack
Nutrition
Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 126mg | Potassium: 80mg | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 85IU | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 0.7mg