Peanut Butter Blossoms cookies are perfect for any holiday or bake sale. A soft peanut butter cookie with a chocolate kiss center is the perfect combination!
As much as we love a classic chocolate chip cookie or peanut butter cookies, I crave the sweet and salty combination of chocolate and peanut butter!
Family Favorite Cookie Recipe
My daughter’s favorite part is adding the chocolate kiss to the cookie, but I think that’s only so she can sneak extra chocolate kisses!
If you have kids, this is a great recipe to make with them, as there are plenty of things they can help with from scooping the dough and rolling it into balls to pressing the kiss into the baked cookie!
How to Make Peanut Butter Blossoms
Here’s a quick overview of this peanut butter blossoms recipe.
- Make the dough and chill.
- Roll dough into 1″ balls and roll in sugar.
- Bake as directed below.
- Remove from the oven, fill with a chocolate kiss and cool completely.
Do I have to Chill the Dough?
Not necessarily, but the softer and warmer the dough is, the more the cookies might spread. Chilling the dough for 30 minutes will yield a thicker cookie.
During the chill time, preheat the oven, prep the baking sheet and unwrap the kisses.
Shortening can eliminate the need for chilling the dough but making peanut butter blossoms without shortening is just as easy, and has a rich, buttery taste.
Storing Peanut Butter Blossoms
They will stay pretty soft and tasty for 5-7 days, in an airtight container on the counter.
How to Store: If you’re having trouble storing the cookies without messing up the kisses, you’ll want to alternate them. Place cookies in a single layer first, side by side. Start your second layer by placing cookies in between the tips of the kisses. Continue this process until all your cookies are stored.
How to Freeze Peanut Butter Blossoms
Freeze the dough before baking: Roll the dough into balls (don’t roll in sugar). Freeze the dough balls individually. Once frozen, place in a freezer bag and seal.
To Bake from Frozen: Place the frozen dough in the refrigerator overnight. Roll in the sugar and proceed as directed!
This upcoming holiday season, be sure to add these peanut butter blossoms to your baking list!
For some other great cookies, check out these peanut butter candy double chocolate cookies, or these simple but delicious salted chocolate chip cookies!
More Peanut Butter Love
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Peanut Butter Pie – pretty and easy as pie!
- Peanut Butter Oreo Icebox Cake
- Peanut Butter Cornflake Cookies (no bake) – Classic!
- Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup granulated sugar (for rolling)
- 36 - 48 chocolate kisses unwrapped
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, softened butter, and peanut butter. Using a hand mixer (or stand mixer if you have one), beat on MED speed until light and fluffy, about 1-2 minutes.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat until well mixed. Add flour, baking soda, and salt, and beat on LOW until combined and no flour streaks remain. Scrape the bowl if needed.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes or more. Add unwrapped chocolate kisses to a bowl and refrigerate as well, until ready to add to baked cookies.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with a sheet of parchment paper and set aside. Add final ½ cup granulated sugar to a small shallow bowl, and set aside.
- Using a small cookie scoop (1 ½ tablespoon size is perfect), or your hands, shape dough into balls a little larger than 1 inch in diameter. Gently roll balls in bowl of granulated sugar to coat on all sides.
- Place approximately 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet and bake 9-10 minutes, until lightly golden brown and tops of cookies have a cracked appearance.
- Press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie, then remove to a cooling rack to continue cooling.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dessert
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These cookies are absolutely amazing! If your cookies came out crumbly then maybe you let them bake too long. Some ovens cook faster than others, so make sure you’re keeping an eye on them. I took mine out at 8 minutes instead of nine. The best way to know if they’re done is to stick a fork in them and if it’s clean, take them out! Let them cool to perfection.
Delicious!
I made these tonight. Mine spread out and by the end of the 9 minutes they were a little crunchy. Oh, I didn’t have the vanilla, but was hoping the peanut butter would make up for that. I think they would be good without rolling them in sugar. Not sure if I should have refrigerated the dough for longer than 35 minutes. I didn’t have any choc. kisses, so I cut some mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs. Thought that would add flavor too. Any suggestions on what I did wrong.
Barbara, the softer and warmer the dough is, the more the cookies might spread. Chilling the dough for 30 minutes will yield a thicker cookie, and perhaps if your kitchen and ingredients were quite warm, a bit longer chill time may be needed. Overbaking may also lead to more crunch cookies, but my guess is that they were not quite chilled enough. Hope they were still delicious!
These cookies turned out absolutely perfect! My husband has been on a peanut butter kick and cannot get enough of them. SWP Employee
So glad you loved these Ayla!
This recipe is awful. It yields a dry, oversized, crumbly cookie with way too much flour in it and little flavor.
Takes longer than 9-10 minutes to bake as well. Waste of time and ingredients. We had to start over using another recipe. Save yourself the trouble.
I”m sorry this didn’t work out for you Cassidy. Baking longer than the suggested time can cause the cookies to be dry and crumbly. I hope that helps.
Love all of your receipes!
My cookies ended up being really crumbly. What did I do wrong? I used crisco baking stick. So disappointing
That’s definitely disappointing. When measuring your flour, did you lightly spoon it into the measuring cup or did you use the measuring cup to scoop the flour? That could lead to a crumbly dough.
Hi can I used almond flour in side all purpose flour and how much do I need to put pls?
I haven’t tried this with almond flour so I am not sure how it would work. Let us know how it goes if you try it.
I just have Salted Butter.. Can I use that?? Hope you can reply back to me soon so I can start baking these
Yes, you can use salted butter in this recipe.
Hi, I made these today and they came out delicious! Follow recipe just as is and you’ll have perfect results. I got 45 cookies out of this recipe.
I’m so glad you loved them Cindy!
My kids absolutely loved these Peanut Butter Blossoms! Thank you!
These look so delicious I can’t wait to try them out. Do you know of i could just use a piece of chocolate on top instead of kisses? Because in Australia it’s really hard to find them
I think that would work perfectly!
Can you chill the dough over night in the fridge and then bake the next day?
Chilling the dough overnight will yield a thicker cookie, but should work just fine Bonnie!