Do-it-yourself peanut butter blossoms are the quintessential Christmas cookie and trademark of any vacation cookie tray. My traditional recipe yields gentle, peanut buttery, and easy-to-make festive cookies!
Peanut butter blossoms are simply probably the greatest Christmas cookies on this planet as a result of they’re (1) simple to make (2) tremendous cute (3) peanut butter + chocolate and (4) peanut butter + chocolate. (Must checklist that twice!)
This soft-baked model peanut butter cookie is a tried and true favourite (you’ll be able to even discover the recipe in my cookbook, Sally’s Sweet Habit). I initially revealed the recipe in 2016 and it’s been properly liked since. Whereas small, these cookies pack a mighty peanut butter punch, and that’s what everybody loves about them!
What Makes These the Greatest Peanut Butter Blossoms?
- Easy + easy recipe utilizing the identical base dough as my flagship peanut butter cookies recipe (notice that at this time’s recipe makes use of 1 Tablespoon much less flour)
- Mega peanut butter taste
- Additional gentle & thick
- Just one hour wanted for dough chilling, so that they’re comparatively fast
- Rolled in granulated sugar for an additional sparkle—use colourful sanding sugars for a festive contact
Key Components in Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Right here’s what you might want to make this traditional Christmas cookie recipe. Yow will discover the complete printable recipe beneath.
- Flour: We use all-purpose flour as the bottom of those peanut butter cookies. Chances are you’ll take a look at the recipe and marvel why there’s so little flour. Do you know that nut butters act as a binder and might really change some or all flour in cookie recipes? See these flourless almond butter cookies. Utilizing extra flour will dry out the cookies, so stick to the recipe beneath.
- Baking Soda: Baking soda helps the cookies rise.
- Salt + Vanilla Extract: Use each salt and vanilla extract for taste.
- Sugars: We use a mix of granulated sugar and brown sugar on this recipe. Each for sweetness and brown sugar for further softness.
- Egg: One egg binds every thing collectively.
- Butter: Butter provides taste and construction. Ensure you have correct room temperature butter earlier than starting.
- Peanut Butter: Peanut butter is a very powerful ingredient for peanut butter cookies. For finest outcomes, use processed peanut butter like Jif or Skippy—the identical I like to recommend for my peanut butter balls.
- Chocolate Kiss Candies: A necessity! That is the “blossom” a part of these cookies.
And you’ve got sweet choices! As an alternative of a Hershey’s Kisses strive a peanut butter cup or chocolate coronary heart like I do in my peanut butter cup cookies and sparkle sweetheart cookies. Or fill with jam like in my peanut butter jam thumbprints.
These Step-By-Step Photographs Will Assist
Yow will discover the complete written recipe beneath, however let me stroll you thru these steps. These cookies are fast and easy—a welcome recipe throughout a busy vacation season.
Make the dough. You’ll mix the dry and moist substances individually, after which mix. Count on a really gentle cookie dough:
Chill the dough for at the least 1 hour to assist solidify it, which helps assure your peanut butter blossoms will maintain form within the oven. Chilly dough can also be simpler to portion and roll. After the dough chills, roll into 1 heaping Tablespoon balls after which roll every in sugar or sanding sugar sprinkles:
Bake the cookies after which cool them for five minutes earlier than including the chocolate sweet.
Stop the Hershey’s Kisses from Melting on Peanut Butter Blossoms
Press the candies into the middle of every barely cooled cookie. After which, right here is my trick:
Stick the peanut butter blossoms within the freezer to stop the chocolate kiss sweet from melting. This ensures the chocolate kiss stays good and cushty within the cute little peanut butter cookie. The fridge works too, however the freezer is best at stopping any melty issues. This additionally helps cool the cookies faster so you’ll be able to instantly hoard them for your self. I imply… share with your loved ones.
My freezer often doesn’t have room for a big baking sheet, so I place the marginally cooled cookies on a smaller tray or plate earlier than putting within the freezer. This is identical course of I exploit after I make pink velvet blossoms, too!
Can I Make These Nut-Free?
For a nut-free model of this recipe, swap the peanut butter for sunflower seed butter or Biscoff unfold. Nevertheless, you’ll have higher luck (and a tastier cookie!) in the event you make these sparkle sweetheart cookies and change the Valentine’s Day coronary heart candies with Hershey’s Kisses. Or strive my sweet cane kiss cookies or pink velvet blossoms.
Different Traditional Christmas Cookie Recipes
Description
These do-it-yourself peanut butter blossoms are further gentle and thick, tremendous easy to make, and delightfully peanut buttery. So many the explanation why this can be a traditional vacation cookie recipe! Don’t neglect to put the cookies within the freezer for 10 minutes to stop the chocolate kiss sweet from melting.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
- Utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat the butter for 1 minute on excessive velocity till creamy. Swap to medium-high velocity and beat within the brown sugar and 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar till utterly creamed and easy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and beat till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the perimeters and backside of the bowl as wanted. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and beat till mixed.
- Add the dry substances to the moist substances and beat on low velocity till mixed. The dough will probably be very creamy and gentle. Cowl and chill the cookie dough within the fridge for at the least 1 hour, and as much as 3 days.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line two giant baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. (All the time really helpful for cookies.) Put aside. Additionally, make sure that there’s room in your freezer as a result of the cookies will should be positioned inside to stop the candies from melting.
- Roll & Bake: Scoop and roll cookie dough, about 1 heaping Tablespoon of dough every. Roll every ball within the 1/2 cup of sugar (or sanding sugar) and prepare on the baking sheet about 3 inches aside. Bake for 11-13 minutes or till the tops start to barely crack. Take away cookies from the oven and permit to chill on the baking sheets for five minutes.
- Set the chocolate: Press a Hershey’s Kiss into the middle of every, then utilizing a skinny spatula, instantly switch the cookies to a big plate or a number of smaller plates (gently, they’re gentle). Place the plate(s) of cookies within the freezer for 10 minutes to shortly set the chocolate kiss within the cookie.
- Take away from the freezer and serve.
- Cookies keep recent lined at room temperature for as much as 1 week.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: You can also make the cookie dough and chill it within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Baked cookies freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Bake frozen cookie dough balls for an additional minute, no have to thaw. Learn my ideas and methods on the best way to freeze cookie dough.
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- Granulated Sugar: You’ll solely want 1/4 cup of granulated sugar for the cookie dough and the opposite 1/2 cup will probably be for coating in step 5. Or you should utilize sanding sugar to coat the cookies as an alternative, famous as optionally available within the ingredient checklist. If utilizing sanding sugar, you don’t want the additional 1/2 cup of granulated sugar listed underneath Coating. If you happen to’re searching for sanding sugar on-line, I like (affiliate hyperlinks) the sugars from this vacation set, these multicolor, these inexperienced, and these pink.
- Peanut butter: Creamy peanut butter is good for this recipe as a result of crunchy peanut butter creates an excessively crumbly cookie. For this explicit recipe, it’s finest to make use of processed peanut butter similar to Jif or Skippy. If you happen to resolve to make use of pure peanut butter, make sure that it’s at room temperature, stirred properly, and count on a barely crumblier cookie.
- Can I exploit almond butter or different nut butter? Sure, you should utilize almond butter or one other nut butter on this cookie recipe; nevertheless, count on a crumblier cookie. I’ve not examined this recipe with Nutella.
- Can I make these with out nuts? For a nut-free model of this recipe, swap the peanut butter for sunflower seed butter or Biscoff unfold. Nevertheless, you’ll have higher luck (and a tastier cookie!) in the event you make these sparkle sweetheart cookies and change the Valentine’s Day coronary heart candies with Hershey’s Kisses. Or strive my sweet cane kiss cookies or pink velvet blossoms.
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