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? ›

Why are my peanut butter blossom cookies dry? If your cookies turn out dry, then it is most likely that you have added too much flour. Make sure that you measure accurately and do not over-mix the cookie dough.

Why are my peanut butter blossoms crumbly? ›

Rescue dry peanut butter blossom cookie dough with oil or milk. According to baking site Creme de la Crumb, if you find your cookies to be crumbly, it is because you've used too much flour.

Why are my peanut blossoms flat? ›

Why are my peanut butter blossoms flat? If you do not chill your dough before baking, the cookies will spread and look flat.

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.

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.

How do you increase the texture of peanut butter? ›

Add a little coconut oil to the blender and you're peanut butter will have a more creamy texture.

Why use a fork on peanut butter cookies? ›

These early recipes do not explain why the advice is given to use a fork, though. The reason is that peanut butter cookie dough is dense, and unpressed, each cookie will not cook evenly. Using a fork to press the dough is a convenience of tool; bakers can also use a cookie shovel (spatula).

Why are my peanut butter balls sticky? ›

Why are my Peanut Butter Balls so sticky? First, make sure you're using regular peanut butter (rather than the natural peanut butter that's more runny). If it's too sticky still, you can simply add a little more powdered sugar until it's a nice consistency for rolling into small balls.

Why are my peanut butter cookies too soft? ›

If the dough seems too soft, chill it for 10 to 15 minutes before baking. Use shortening instead of butter or a combination of the two if you don't want to sacrifice that buttery flavor. The dough was too wet. Using the wrong size egg could also add extra liquid, resulting in too much spreading.

How do you keep peanut butter cookies from flattening? ›

Use a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Coating your baking sheet with nonstick spray or butter creates an overly greasy foundation, causing the cookies to spread. I always recommend a silicone baking mat because they grip onto the bottom of your cookie dough, preventing the cookies from spreading too much.

Why are my peanut butter cookies dry? ›

Why are my cookies dry and crumbly? This is most likely a classic case of using too much flour. It's crucial to properly measure the flour in this recipe, as even 1 extra tablespoon of flour can completely change the structure of the cookies. You also might have over baked them!

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.

How do you fix dry peanut butter cookies? ›

The most obvious and easiest fix is to add more liquid. Very slowly, teaspoon by teaspoon, add a liquid that you've already included to your dough. Mix after each teaspoon—you don't want to over-saturate it and risk gooey dough. Don't overmix, because this might lead to the problem you're trying to fix!

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.

Why are peanut butter cookies always dry? ›

However they won't be particularly chewy and they should not spread out on the baking sheet that much. There are several reasons why the cookies may have become dry and crumbly but the two most likely are that either the cookies were baked for too long or too much flour was added to the dough.

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