Peanut Butter Blossoms are your basic peanut butter cookie, with a Hershey's Kiss pressed into the warm cookie and baked again, just enough to glue them together. I usually make a double batch of the Blossoms, and use half in the traditional way and half to make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. For PB Cup Cookies, instead of placing the balls of dough on a baking sheet, put them into the cups of a tassie pan. When they are baked and ready for the addition of candy, push a mini peanut butter cup down into the dough instead of a Kiss. Yum - Casey's favorite!
PEANUT BUTTER BLOSSOMS
Sift together:
1 tsp. baking soda
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
Cream together:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup shortening (Crisco)
Add 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 TBS. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
Blend with dry ingredients. Shape dough into balls the size of a walnut, then roll in sugar and place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees (F) for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, unwrap kisses. Remove cookies from oven and quickly top each with the candy. Return to oven for two to three minutes.
P.S. - If you make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, use milk chocolate cups. The dark chocolate doesn't seem to melt as well.
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