Perfect Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe (2024)

Baking cookies is one of my favorite holiday traditions. There are a few old family favorite cookie recipes that I have to bake. Peanut Butter Blossoms is one of those recipes.

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Ingredients in Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

These are the ingredients you will need to make these cookies. The full printable recipe can be found farther down.

  • Flour:All purpose flour works for this recipe. This recipe does not require a lot of flour because the peanut butter acts as a binder and more flour would actually make the cookies dry.
  • Baking soda:Aids in the cookies rising properly.
  • Salt: Enhances the flavor.
  • Butter: Make sure your butter is at room temperature before starting. Butter acts a structural component as well as a fundamental flavor profile.
  • Peanut butter: This is the star of the whole show. It is our main flavor and it adds structure to the cookies.
  • Granulated sugar: Added for sweetness and enhances browning.
  • Brown sugar: Added for sweetness and extra softness.
  • Egg: The main binder in the cookies.
  • Milk: Adds moisture and fat.
  • Vanilla: Adds flavor and color.

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Peanut Butter Blossoms Ingredients

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Step by Step Photos Making the Peanut Butter Blossoms

The recipe card and be found below, but these step by step photos will help guide you through the process.

Start by placing butter, peanut butter, and sugars in a large bowl and cream together. Next, add milk and vanilla to the butter mixture. Then add the egg and beat to blend.

In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture. This will create a very soft dough.

Scoop the dough with a cookie scoop and then shape dough into a ball.

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Now roll the dough balls in sugar evenly coating the surface of the ball.

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Place your sugar coated dough balls on a nonstick lined cookie sheet two inches apart.

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Bake in a preheated oven at 375°F for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and lightly press a Hershey Kiss in center of each cookie and return to the oven for an additional two minutes. Remove your fresh baked cookies from the oven and place on a cooling rack and now they are ready to be enjoyed!

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Questions you might have

  • Why are my peanut butter blossoms coming out dry: If your peanut butter blossom cookies are coming out too dry you are most likely using too much flour.
  • How long do peanut Butter blossoms stay fresh? These cookies are good for about 5 days after baking and should be stored in an air tight container at room tempature and away from direct sunlight.
  • How many calories are in peanut butter blossoms? There is about 113 calories in each cookie.
  • Can I make these with different nut butters? Yes, you can use any nut butter you want just expect a crumblier cookie.

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

These are the classic peanut butter blossoms that are a family favorite. They are easy and simply delicious. Let's bake someone happy.

4.58 from 19 votes

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Course: Cookies, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Peanut butter blossoms, Peanut butter cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 36

Calories: 113kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup peanut butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 Tbls milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 36 Hershey Kisses

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F

  • Unwrap 36 Hershey Kisses

  • Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.

  • Cream together shortening, and peanut butter

  • Gradually add sugars.

  • Then, add egg, milk, and vanilla.

  • Scoop dough with a cookie scoop and roll into balls.

  • Place ¾ cup of granulated sugar in a shallow bowl.

  • Roll each dough ball in the sugar to coat. Please dough balls on a Silpat lined cookie sheet. Placing them 2" apart.

  • Bake for 8 minutes

  • Remove the pan from the oven and place one Hershey Kiss in the center of each cookie (pressing lightly) and return the pan to oven and bake 2 more minutes.

  • Place baked cookies on a cooling rack.

Equipment

Silpat

Cookie sheet

Stand mixer

Nutrition

Calories: 113kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 37mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 87IU | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg

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FAQs

Why are my peanut butter blossoms so dry? ›

The main reason why your peanut butter blossom cookies may come out dry is if you add too much flour so be sure to use a scale or measure carefully without packing the flour into the measuring cup.

Why did my peanut butter blossoms go flat? ›

Why are my peanut butter blossoms flat? If you do not chill your dough before baking, the cookies will spread and look flat. Chilling allows the butter in the cookie dough to resolidify making for a plump end result.

What is Baskin Robbins peanut butter blossom? ›

Perfectly paired with classics like decadent Chocolate Fudge and timeless Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Blossom features sweet and salty peanut butter ice cream, chocolate chips, peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough pieces, and rich fudge swirls.

How do you intensify peanut butter flavor? ›

You can further augment the gustatory potential of the peanut butter by using both vanilla extract and almond extract in your dough—just a splash of the latter is enough to boost your cookies' nuttiness (while remaining subtle enough that no one will cotton onto the presence of drupe essence in your legume dessert).

What happens if you don't chill peanut butter cookie dough? ›

Popping your dough in the fridge allows the fats to cool. As a result, the cookies will expand more slowly, holding onto their texture. If you skip the chilling step, you're more likely to wind up with flat, sad disks instead of lovely, chewy cookies. Cookies made from chilled dough are also much more flavorful.

Why do my peanut butter cookies not taste like peanut butter? ›

The most common mistake with peanut butter cookies is using the wrong type of peanut butter. The BEST peanut butter for today's cookies is a processed creamy peanut butter, preferably Jif or Skippy.

What happens if you don't flatten peanut butter cookies? ›

If you don't flatten the cookies first, then the fork does double duty – it performs both functions. One very subtle result of creating the pattern is that the little tips of dough bake up crisper than the rest of the cookie, giving you both a bit of additional texture and deeper taste where the dough is more baked.

Why do you store peanut butter upside down? ›

The trick to keeping natural peanut butter smooth is to store the jar properly. Rather than keeping the jar of peanut butter as it is, you should store it upside down instead, as this helps the natural oils present in the peanut butter to move through the jar, consequently keeping it smooth at all times.

What is Baskin-Robbins most popular flavor? ›

The top 5 selling Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint Chocolate Chip, Pralines 'n Cream and Chocolate Chip. Jamoca® Almond Fudge ice cream was first developed to be made from coffee brewed on the premises of each of the fifteen manufacturing facilities.

What did Baskin-Robbins used to be called? ›

It wasn until 1953 that the ice cream chain dropped the separate identities of Snowbird and Burton and became Baskin-Robbins. A local advertising agency, Carson/Roberts, advised a uniform identity and image under the name Baskin-Robbins 31 Ice Cream.

Why do people call Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors? ›

What was once a selection of 31 flavors—Baskin-Robbins "31®" stands for a different ice cream flavor for each day of the month—has grown to more than 1,400 in its flavor library.

Why does peanut butter make you thick? ›

Overeating peanut butter may increase the number of calories and fat in someone's diet. If a person is eating more calories than they need, they may gain weight. Peanuts are a nutrient dense food that contains vegetable proteins and healthful fats.

What can I do with old peanut butter? ›

If you find yourself cleaning out the back of our pantry or basem*nt food storage area and come across an extra jar or two of peanut butter – DONATE it! There are many food banks and animal shelters that would gladly accept your unopened jar of peanut butter. The “best by” date is just that, a best by date.

Is it better to use butter or shortening in peanut butter cookies? ›

Cookies Made with Butter vs Shortening

Those made with only shortening bake higher and spread less during baking. The butter cookie provides better flavor and a crispier exterior with browning around edges and a chewy interior; the shortening cookie spreads less, holding its shape better while baking.

What to do if peanut butter cookies are dry? ›

If you overmix the dough, the cookies will be dry and crumbly. The best way to fix this is to add more liquid to the dough. This can be done by adding milk, water, or even melted butter. You may also need to add more flour to the dough if it is too wet.

How do you fix dry peanut butter cookie dough? ›

To avoid this, try using as little flour as possible while preparing to roll your dough. Dry – “Dry” or “Crumbly” dough is a product of over-mixing or using too much of any ingredient during the mixing process. This can be reversed by adding one to two tablespoons of liquid (water, milk or softened butter) to your mix.

How do you fix dry peanut butter cookies? ›

Add more liquid ingredients in small amounts. Milk, egg yolks or egg whites, vanilla extract or even a teaspoon of water can help moisten the dough to give you less crumbly cookies. A little bit of a liquid like milk can also help your cookies spread in the oven to give you a more crispy cookie.

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