If you’re looking for some delicious peanut butter cookies for the holidays, you will love these peanut butter blossom cookies! So full of delicious flavor that melt in your mouth from the first bite.
Ingredients
3cupsgranulated sugardivided
1cuplight brown sugar
1cupcreamy peanut butter
1/2cupshortening
1/2cupunsalted sweet cream buttersoftened
1large egg
2 1/2cupsall-purpose flour
1 1/2teaspoonsbaking soda
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonkosher salt
1bag of Hershey’s Hugs Kissesunwrapped
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer, beat together 1 cup of sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, shortening, butter, and egg until combined and smooth.
In another large bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until a dough forms.
Pour the remaining sugar into a bowl and scoop out some of the dough onto your hands with an ice cream scoop. Roll into a ball and then roll in the sugar and place on your prepared cookie sheet. Repeat for 11 more cookies.
Bake in the oven for 11 minutes and allow them to cool for another 1-2 minutes.
Place a Hershey's kiss into the center of each cookie and allow them to fully cool for 5 more minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
Repeat these steps with the remaining dough and serve when cooled. Enjoy!