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I have finally entered the modern age of baking with a Kitchenaid stand mixer! The only bummer is that I had to get it in white. I would have preferred a color, but the ones that had color options were a lot more expensive, so... oh well. I have already made three different kinds of cookies today! Don't worry, they are mostly for this holiday potluck thing at work we're having in a couple days, so they're not all for me. That would be crazy. So what did I make?
I made some peanut butter balls, soft pumpkin cookies, molasses cookies (a gluten-free variety!), and these peanut butter blossoms.
I'm sure everyone has had these at some point in their lives. They were always one of my favorites to make as a kid. I found an interesting variety of different recipes online, and kind of just tweaked one to go with the ingredients I wanted. I also halved it, because 48 seemed like way too many. Actually I halved all the recipes today, otherwise it would just have been too much of a cookie explosion up in here.
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients:
48 Hershey's kisses
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
extra sugar to roll in
Preheat oven to 375F.
Mix together the peanut butter and the shortening until smooth. Add in the sugars, egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated. In a separate bowl (if you so desire, I rarely do), mix together the flour, salt and baking soda. Stir in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls, rolling them each in sugar and placing them about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. While they're baking, unwrap the Hershey's kisses. Once you take them out of the oven, each cookie gets one kiss in the middle. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
In pictures...
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
I have finally entered the modern age of baking with a Kitchenaid stand mixer! The only bummer is that I had to get it in white. I would have preferred a color, but the ones that had color options were a lot more expensive, so... oh well. I have already made three different kinds of cookies today! Don't worry, they are mostly for this holiday potluck thing at work we're having in a couple days, so they're not all for me. That would be crazy. So what did I make?
I made some peanut butter balls, soft pumpkin cookies, molasses cookies (a gluten-free variety!), and these peanut butter blossoms.
I'm sure everyone has had these at some point in their lives. They were always one of my favorites to make as a kid. I found an interesting variety of different recipes online, and kind of just tweaked one to go with the ingredients I wanted. I also halved it, because 48 seemed like way too many. Actually I halved all the recipes today, otherwise it would just have been too much of a cookie explosion up in here.
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients:
48 Hershey's kisses
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
extra sugar to roll in
Preheat oven to 375F.
Mix together the peanut butter and the shortening until smooth. Add in the sugars, egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated. In a separate bowl (if you so desire, I rarely do), mix together the flour, salt and baking soda. Stir in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls, rolling them each in sugar and placing them about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. While they're baking, unwrap the Hershey's kisses. Once you take them out of the oven, each cookie gets one kiss in the middle. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
In pictures...
This is the peanut butter and the shortening.
And this is after everything else is put in. I forgot to take a photo of the in between step. It looked much the same, you're not missing a lot.
Here they are, all rolled in sugar and ready to go in the oven.
You'll notice they do not get a lot bigger, so you can't make them too small or the kisses won't fit. Here you can see some plain ones before kisses, and a few after.
Mmmmmmm..........
These cookies are especially good for those who like Hershey's kisses. I am not a huge fan of just plain chocolate like that, so I am not quite as gung-ho. But like I said, these aren't for me, they're for a party!
- Peanut Butter Cookies With Reese's Chips
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- Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies
Last week, I was in Las Vegas for a work convention, and let me just tell you, five days in Vegas is way too many. One thing I got to indulge on while there, though, was bacon. I don't consider myself the biggest bacon person, but then I have some...
- Delightfully Dense Peanut Butter Cookies
Sometimes, you just need an easy little peanut butter cookie to brighten up your day. And these ones certainly fit the bill, being both easy and quite yummy. They don't flatten out much when baking, instead pretty much holding their little ball shape...
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
You guys, I'm on a cookie frenzy lately! I don't know what the deal is, but I can't seem to make enough cookies. Perhaps I should've named my blog something to do with them at this rate. Because, yes, I've got another cookie recipe...
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are a staple of mine that I bust out whenever I feel like a quick batch of cookies. Except that I always forget that they're not necessarily as quick as you'd like, because you do have to refrigerate the dough for 1-3 hours. Details,...