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.

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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 do my peanut butter blossoms crack? ›

Why Are My Peanut Butter Blossoms Dry and Crumbly? If your cookies turn out too dry and fall apart, you either baked them too long, or added too much flour. Everyone measures flour differently, but try the spoon and level method for measuring out flour.

Why is my peanut butter blossom dough crumbly? ›

If your peanut butter blossoms are dry, it's because you have too much flour or too little liquid (or a combo of both!). I honestly also think that too many peanut butter blossom recipes are dry as written; that is why I took extreme care to make sure this recipe produces moist, chewy peanut butter blossom cookies.

Why are my peanut butter blossom cookies 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.

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.

Why are my peanut butter balls too soft? ›

If your butter was too soft or if the peanut butter you're using is too thin, the filling can get a little soft and sticky as you're rolling. The refrigerator can fix that—stop what you're doing and chill the bowl of filling for 15 minutes in the refrigerator before trying again to roll into balls.

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

As she says, not chilling the cookie and baking at 350 degrees can result in a more crackly cookie, since the dough hasn't had enough time to absorb the flour. Chilling it for half an hour, however, gives you thicker, chewier dough.

Should I let peanut butter cookie dough rest? ›

We prefer natural peanut butter here, so you can dial in the sugar and salt amounts precisely, and smooth peanut butter over crunchy to better control the cookies' fat and moisture levels. Letting the cookie dough rest ensures the flour is fully hydrated, resulting in crisper edges and chewier middles.

How do you make peanut butter cookie dough less crumbly? ›

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.

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

Peanut butter cookies don't spread as they cook, so you have to flatten them before hand. This ensures that the middle will cook through before the outside burns. As for the pattern created, it actually creates slightly more surface area, so you'll get more browning at the extra edges that you create.

Why do my peanut butter cookies taste weird? ›

One reason could be that you overcooked them. Another reason could be that you didn't add enough moisture to the dough. Finally, your peanut butter cookies might be dry and crumbly if you used a natural peanut butter that doesn't have any added oil.

Why are my peanut butter cookies so oily? ›

You baked your cookies and they came out an oily greasy mess. Urgh, what an awful feeling! If you've had this happen to you, odds are you made one of two mistakes: either you didn't allow the ingredients to thoroughly mix during the creaming process or you didn't allow the dough to rest enough before baking.

What is the peanut butter blossom flavor of the month? ›

Baskin-Robbins' January Flavor of the Month Is Peanut Butter Blossom. The new flavor features a perfectly salty-sweet peanut butter ice cream as a base. Plus, it has chunks of peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate chips scattered throughout as well as ribbons of fudge swirled through the ice cream.

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.

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 are my peanut butter cookies cracking? ›

One reason could be that you overcooked them. Another reason could be that you didn't add enough moisture to the dough. Finally, your peanut butter cookies might be dry and crumbly if you used a natural peanut butter that doesn't have any added oil.

How do you fix peanut butter that separates? ›

Here are some steps you can take to fix it:
  1. Pour off any excess oil on top of the peanut butter.
  2. Use a clean spoon or knife to stir the remaining solids in the peanut butter.
  3. If the peanut butter is still too thick, add a small amount of oil back in and continue stirring until it reaches the desired consistency.
Mar 9, 2023

Why are my peanut butter cookies breaking? ›

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. The site notes that it's an easy mistake to make, especially for us rookies who might think moist-looking cookie dough is a problem.

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