Description
These are the best peanut butter blossom cookies. They are soft and a little chewy. Everyone devours these. I like to eat them while their hot so the chocolate is all melted. Yum!
Ingredients
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- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons corn starch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar, plus a little extra to roll the dough balls in
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 48 Hershey kisses, unwrapped and ready to put on top of the cookie
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, corn starch, baking powder, baking soda and sea salt. Set aside
- In a stand mixer cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar.
- While mixer is going add peanut butter, eggs (one at a time), maple syrup and vanilla.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Using a #40 cookie scoop, scoop out the dough, rolling each scoop of dough into a ball then rolling it in sugar.
- Place the dough balls on a baking sheet lined with a silpat mat or parchment paper.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- As soon as you remove cookies from the oven, place the Hershey kiss in the center of the cookie.
- Let cookies cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes.
- Transfer cookies to a cookie rack. Be careful not to touch the Hershey kisses as they will be melted.
- Let cookies cool long enough for Hershey kisses to harden before storing. You can speed this process up by putting the cookie rack on a cookie sheet and placing it in the refrigerator or freezer.
Notes
- I like to use this pouring shield when pouring in dry ingredients so that they go into the mixing bowl versus all over the counter.
- I always use a cookie scoop to scoop dough. That way you know that every cookie is the same size. This will ensure that they are all baked the same and end up with the same texture and consistency. Bigger cookies will require a bit longer baking time and smaller cookies a bit less baking time. So, if your dough balls are all different sizes on the same cookies sheet you will have some cookies that are slightly under baked and some that are slightly over baked.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes