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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Holiday Sweets, Part 2: Peanut Butter Blossoms

I may have mentioned this before, but peanut butter and chocolate may be my favorite flavor combination.  I love Reese's, these peanut butter and chocolate chip bars are one of my favorite baked goodies, but these peanut butter blossoms are a holiday staple.

The original recipe said it yields about 60...I consistently get about 45 each time.  There are a ton of variations of this recipe, but this one is my favorite.  Also, this has fewer ingredients than others, and (as I found out this time) is really easy to make the dough with a quality mixer.

(Side note: For Christmas, Santa brought me a fire-engine red KitchenAid Stand Mixer.  This was the first recipe I made with the mixer.  Stay tuned for an all-about-the-KitchenAid-mixer post...coming soon!)


Ingredients

1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 can (14 oz) condensed milk
2 cups biscuit mix
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 granulated sugar
45-50 unwrapped Hershey's Kisses

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Combine peanut butter and condensed milk.  Mix well until creamy and smooth.


3. Add biscuit mix and vanilla extract.  Mix.  Combine throughly until dough is no longer crumbly.


4. Roll dough into 1 inch balls.  Cover in sugar, and then place on ungreased baking pan, about 1 inch apart.


5. Bake 6-8 minutes at 375 degrees until they are a light golden color.  (I usually check them around six minutes)

6. Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven, press one Hershey's Kiss into the center of each to create a blossom.  Allow to cool so that the chocolate sets.

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