Peanut Blossoms

Peanut Blossoms

This is a traditional Christmas cookie at Memaw’s house. The most time consuming part of this recipe is unwrapping the kisses! It is a perfect kid job if you have a few extras kisses. We sometimes make them very small and put large chocolate chips on top instead of Kisses. 

New for 2005 - now you can buy unwrapped Hershey’s Kisses in the baking aisle of the grocery store. They heard our complaints!!

New for 2017 – the unwrapped kisses are much harder to find. They must have gone out of style.  This year we used Brach’s Dark Chocolate Stars. 

A new discovery - Peanut Blossom dough works great in a cookie gun. The dough is soft, so easy to push out, but holds its shape well. If you don’t have a cookie gun - they have improved since the one I remember Nina having when I was a kid. We got a new one by Oxo this year and it works really well. 

Yield: 4 dozen cookies

cookie sheet, ungreased 

375°

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

½ cup shortening

½ cup peanut butter

½ cup sugar

½ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 egg

2 tbs milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

48 milk chocolate candy kisses

Instructions:

Mix dry ingredients together. Cream shortening, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix until incorporated. 

Shape dough into balls. Roll balls in sugar and place on cookie sheet. Bake for l0-12 minutes. Immediately top with a candy kiss, pressing down so that the cookie forms small cracks around the edge.