Thursday, December 23, 2010

Peanut Butter Kisses

This week has been a whirlwind of baking, but I knew I had to make a big batch of my dad's favorite cookies.
I didn't realize till about halfway through making the dough that I was using a recipe that's already tripled. So it made A LOT of cookies (I'll be giving you a scaled down version, you probably don't need 12 dozen cookies).

Make sure to unwrap all the Hershey Kisses ahead of time, they need to go on as soon as the cookies come out of the oven. Better yet, have someone who isn't baking do it for you (you will have to repay them in cookies.)


Peanut Butter Kisses
(yields 4 dozen cookies)
1/2 cup of unsalted butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup of peanut butter
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 3/4 cup of flour
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 bag of Hershey Kisses

Another 1/2 cup of sugar (to dip the cookies in)

Cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla extract together in a mixer.

In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.

Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture.

Scoop out balls of dough slightly smaller than a tablespoon (these cookies should be very little) and roll the balls in sugar.

Place about one inch apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until golden.

When you remove them from the oven, quickly transfer to a cooling rack and press a Hershey Kiss down into the center of each cookie. The Hershey Kisses will melt, let the cookies cool undisturbed until the Kisses set back up.

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