Easy Peanut Butter Blossoms

Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe

This peanut butter blossoms recipe is easy and delicious. The peanut butter cookie base is loaded with peanut butter flavor so if you love peanut butter, these cookies are for you! I use natural peanut butter, which creates a softer cookie that deliciously crumbles in your mouth. Natural peanut butter has no trans fat, whereas processed peanut butter has hydrogenated oils, which are a source of trans fat. I recommend checking the ingredients label the next time you're at the store! There should just be 2 ingredients max: peanuts and salt. These cookies are great any time of year but especially around the holidays when you're assembling a cookie tin or tray! I love using an ice cream scoop to evenly portion out cookie dough onto baking sheets. First, it's easy and that's reason enough! Second, the scoop shape gives the cookies a nice, circular shape. Third, it ensures each cookie is roughly the same size!

Once these cookies are scooped onto a cookie sheet (tablespoons work just fine if you don't have an ice cream scoop), you want to lightly flatten them or else the dough will bake in the shape you put it in the oven because this dough doesn't spread much. You want to just gently flatten them; you want there to be enough thickness to encase the chocolate kiss!

Baking sheet of my peanut butter blossoms recipe with wrapped Hershey's kisses scattered around and in a small bowl in the top right corner of the tray. Some wrappers scattered around as well. A gray linen is in the top right corner of the frame and a bowl of peanut butter is in the top left.

Ingredient Highlights - Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookies

Natural peanut butter - like I said above, I try to only use natural peanut butter because it's less processed and has no trans fats. Processed peanut butter contains hydrogenated oils, which have trans fats in them. The natural peanut butter also gives these cookies such an intense PB flavor!

Butter - these cookies need a littttttle bit of butter to help keep them together and add some mouthfeel.

Brown sugar - brown sugar adds sweetness to these peanut butter blossoms. However, we use ½ cup, which is less than most recipes (and taste is not compromised)!

Flour - I use white whole wheat flour here because the peanut butter flavor is so strong, you can't taste a "wheat" flavor at all. You could use all-purpose or regular whole wheat!

Vanilla extract - this gives the cookies a *slight* vanilla flavor and compliments the other ingredients!

Baking soda - this helps to leaven doughs, including cookie dough! The result of adding baking soda is a soft, fluffy cookie.

Salt - if your peanut butter contains salt, you can omit this! You need just a hint of salt in baked goods to balance flavors.

Recipe FAQ

Can you refrigerate peanut butter cookie dough?

Yes! Typically, keeping dough cold will help prevent it from spreading when baked. With this specific recipe, you can store it in the fridge if you don't plan on baking them after making the dough. However, we recommend letting it come to room temp before baking because this dough doesn't spread much.

Why did my peanut butter cookies come out dry?

This dough creates a soft cookie that crumbles in your mouth when eating. However, if the cookies come out dry, I suggest cutting back on the cooking time! They may have baked for too long.

How do you flatten peanut butter cookies?

For this recipe, I just use my fingers! I gently press on the tops of each ball of dough to slightly flatten it. You don't want the dough to be too thin and wide because the cooking time will need to change and the chocolate kiss may not stick as well. You want to apply just enough pressure to slightly flatten the dough!

A peanut butter blossom cookie with more cookies on a cooling wrack in the back along with chocolate kiss wrappers, a linen, and glass of milk.

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Easy peanut butter blossoms on parchment paper on a baking sheet. A spoon of peanut butter smeared to the right and a bowl of chocolate kisses in the top right corner.

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