Peanut Butter Blossoms (with Extra Peanut Butter!)
These Peanut Butter Blossoms are made with extra peanut buttery dough for a spectacular peanut butter blossom cookie experience!
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If you feel like you can’t go wrong with more peanut butter (that’s my life philosophy!), then you need to make these Peanut Butter Blossoms.
A few years ago, I decided to switch up the traditional blossoms cookie dough so it has less flour and more peanut butter. Give them a try and thank me later! 🙂 These always get gobbled up first whenever I bring them to holiday parties.
Ingredients Needed for Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredient quantities for these easy homemade cookies are located in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Peanut butter
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Hershey’s Kisses
How To Make Easy Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies (Quick Overview)
The steps below are just a quick overview of how to make the peanut butter blossom cookies recipe. The full process in detail is located in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Preheat oven to temperature listed on the recipe card (end of post).
- Combine all dry ingredients in a medium bowl and mix well.
- Add peanut butter, egg, and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients.
- With an electric or stand mixer, mix the batter until it is well combined.
- Add granulated sugar to a small bowl. Shape cookie dough into 1” balls and roll in sugar to fully coat the outside.
- Place each cookie on a non-stick cookie sheet approximately 2” apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges of the cookies start to brown slightly. Do not overbake!
- Immediately press a Hershey’s kiss into the top of each cookie, then remove the cookies and cool on a wire cooling rack.
- Serve and enjoy!
Tip
Want to reduce the sugar in this recipe without sacrificing flavor? Use a sugar substitute that can be replaced 1:1 for sugar, like Swerve Granular.
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Make any of these Christmas cookies and desserts, and you will be relentlessly praised for the texture and taste! Your family and guests will devour these cookies.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (plus extra to coat unbaked cookies)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 Hershey’s Kisses (unwrapped)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Combine all dry ingredients in a medium bowl and mix well.
- Add peanut butter, egg, and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients. With an electric or stand mixer, mix the batter until it is well combined.
- Add granulated sugar to a small bowl. Shape cookie dough into 1” balls and roll in sugar to fully coat the outside.
- Place each cookie on a non-stick cookie sheet approximately 2” apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges of the cookies start to brown slightly. Do not overbake!
- Immediately press a Hershey’s kiss into the top of each cookie, then remove the cookies and cool on a wire cooling rack.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition Estimates (Per Serving)
Nutrition Disclaimer
Nutrition Estimates are per serving and included as a courtesy only. They are accurate to the best of our knowledge based on the ingredients and brands used, but their accuracy is not guaranteed.
made these last night! the extra peanut butter was great I thought for sure I’d miss the butter as butter is nearly always in the base of cookie dough, but I didn’t. it was delicious. thank you for the recipe! I’m baking more up tomorrow night for my work potluck!
Thank you so much, Mrs. Smith! I’m so glad you liked them, and I hope they were a huge hit at your work potluck! 😊