A parchment lined baking sheet filled with rows of round peanut butter cookies with chocolate centers.

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Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

These peanut butter blossom cookies are, like chewy and chocolatey like the classic but they also go a little glam with the addition of Guittard milk chocolate wafers. Otherwise, they're exactly the same as the kiss cookies your mom had waiting for you after school.

Prep Time25

Cook Time15

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 107

Ingredients

▢ 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
▢ 1/2 cup granulated sugar
▢ 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
▢ 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
▢ About 60 Guittard 38% Cacao Milk Chocolate Wafers or 30 Hershey’s Kisses

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Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C). Adjust the oven racks to the lower and upper-middle positions. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the peanut butter and beat until combined, about a minute. Add the flour and mix, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until just combined.
Divide the dough into about thirty 1-inch balls and place them about 2 inches apart on the baking sheets. Bake until the cookies are almost 2/3 cooked through yet still soft enough to yield to a gentle touch, about 10 minutes.
Remove the baking sheets from the oven and gently push 2 stacked Guittard Wafers or 1 Hershey's Kiss into the center of each cookie, flattening it slightly. The cookies may crack in various places. Be sure to work quickly, otherwise the cookies will start to harden. Return the baking sheets to the oven and bake until the chocolate melts slightly, 2 to 4 minutes more. Let the cookies cool completely on the sheets. (The cookies are very fragile when hot. Actually, they're still a little fragile even when cool.) The cookies will keep in a covered container for up to 5 days.

Notes

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies Variation

Although a little milk chocolate does the trick quite nicely here, there are alternate options to filling the cookies. Chunks of your favorite dark chocolate. A dollop of jam. Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Go crazy. Reacquaint yourself with that inner kid who’s still in you. You know, the one who wasn’t afraid to try anything…except maybe the high diving board at the swimming pool.

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