Chewy Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
These delightful peanut butter blossom cookies are made with 3 ingredients and then topped with chocolate caramel Kisses.
Ingredients
- 1 jar (18 ounces) creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs beaten
- 54 chocolate caramel candy kisses
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium size bowl, add the peanut butter, sugar and eggs. With a large sturdy spoon, mix together until incorporated and a dough forms.
- Roll the dough into small balls (slightly smaller than a whole walnut). If the dough sticks to your hands, lightly dust your hands with flour.
- Lay each ball of dough, spaced apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. If using a half sheet-size cookie pan (18 x 13 inches), 18 balls of dough should fit per pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven. If using one cookie sheet, it will take 3 batches to bake all of the cookies.
- While the cookies are in the oven, unwrap the candy kisses. An option is to unwrap just enough for each batch in case it turns out that less than a total of 54 (18 x 3 batches) cookies are made.
- Bake just long enough for the bottom of the cookies to turn a golden color and for the middle of the cookie to be soft (about 15 minutes).
- Be careful not to let the cookies bake too long (brown around the outside edges) or they'll be on the dry side.
- Right after removing the cookies from the oven (while they're still warm and on the cookie sheet) gently push a candy kiss slightly into the top of each cookie. Do this as soon as possible because if the cookies start to cool, the candy kiss won’t stick (to the cookie).
- Transfer the cookies to a rack and let cool before serving.
Notes
TIPS:
- When rolling the cookie dough into balls, if the dough sticks to your hands, lightly dust your hands with flour.
- If using a half sheet-size cookie pan (18 x 13 inches), 18 balls of dough should fit per pan.
- If using one cookie sheet, it will take 3 batches to bake all of the cookies.
- When unwrapping the candy kisses, an option is to unwrap just enough for each batch in case it turns out that less than a total of 54 (18 x 3 batches) cookies are made (the amount of cookies may vary depending on the size of each dough ball rolled).
- Be careful not to let the cookies bake too long (brown around the outside edges) or they'll be on the dry side.
- After the cookies are baked, put a candy kiss in each cookie as soon as possible because if the cookies start to cool, the candy kiss won’t stick (to the cookie).