Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe (2024)

My grandmother, Freda Smith from Gibsonburg Ohio, created these cookies and was the Bake-Off prize winner. It is true she did not win the Grand Prize but her legacy lives on through these cookies. She would love that they became so beloved by so many. My mother and I made a TV commercial for Pillsbury flour in 1965 because Freda had passed away. What a gift she gave us. Enjoy her Peanut Blossoms and know a wonderful woman from Ohio created them for her Grandkids.

The recipe is wrong because it says it makes 5 dozen when it really makes 22 cookies

Longtime family tradition to use semisweet chocolate chips instead of Kisses. A less sweet chocolate makes them less cloying, there's a better chocolate-to-bite distribution, and the chips soften and then don't entirely harden after cooling. It's what's up.

For easy storage - and, I'd argue, easier eating - push the chocolate kiss in upside down! The point will melt a bit as you push it in, there will be a chocolate bite right in the middle of the cookie, and a perfectly lovely chocolate dot on top. Another tip: if I run out of kisses before I run out of dough, I bake as usual, use my mini mortar pestle to indent the middle after 9 minutes, then fill the indentation with a spoon of homemade salted caramel. Always a jar in the fridge. Yummy!

These turned out great and I did get 5 dozen. I used a food scale to divide the dough into 5 equal weight balls, them divided each ball in half, those sections in half, and formed 3 cookies out of each section. Cooked 7 minutes, added the kiss, then 2 to 3 more minutes just as described. Perfect!

I have for years sworn by ATK's peanut butter cookie recipe--forget smooth, go chunky and up the peanut factor by adding crushed dry roasted peanuts--if you love peanuts, you can't beat it!

I rolled theses in turbinado sugar before baking, which gave them a lovely golden color and more sophisticated look.

If you only got 22 cookies, they must be HUGE! I get about 60 out of a single batch.

These cookies are especially tasty with dark chocolate kisses and all natural (unsweetened) peanut butter.

This recipe was an entrant in the 9th Pillsbury Bakeoff in 1957. Although it did not win the $45,000 prize, it certainly has become a classic American cookie. It has been Enjoyed by many for many decades!

Another way to make these amazing is to replace the Hershey's kiss with a miniature Reeses peanut butter cup. Follow the exact same recipe just put a cup in instead of a kiss. Next level. No need to use a mini muffin tin as I've seen in other Reeses peanut butter cup recipes.

I have a different recipe for the same kind of cookie. It uses a larger ratio of peanut butter to other ingredients (e.g. ¾ cup peanut butter, but same amount of butter, egg). Thus the other recipe (from about.com) has a stronger peanut flavor, which I prefer.

Do you out the chips in the dough or mound on top after baking? The kisses mainly annoy me because it's hard to store the.

I've never made these before but of the 4 different cookies I made for my office cookie swap, these were the ones that were gone the fastest. I did use chunky instead of smooth, because I like chunky better. They were amazing.

Do you use fresh ground peanut butter, or something processed, like Jif?

these are perfect!! normally i’m not a huge peanut butter fan but these were amazing

Making the 5 dozen cookies results in a nice bite size cookie with a good cookie to chocolate ratio. Yummy

These cookies are my new favorite recipe! Super easy and forgiving, and the perfect peanut butter cookie texture.

Made as written except used Demerara sugar and a dark chocolate wafer on top. Tried one at cooking time indicated (for only slightly larger than indicated size) and it tasted like flour and baking soda so cooked a bit longer. Still tasted, as my husband said, “farinaceous.” And the Demerara sugar was unpleasantly crunchy. I used a natural PB and wonder if this was part of the problem, but this was not what I was hoping for!

Last year I used the ATK peanut butter cookie recipe and just added the kisses to make them into blossoms. This recipe resulted in a cookie of a better texture, for blossoms, so I'll use the ATK recipe only for "regular" PB cookies in the future, and this one for blossoms. I think rolling in sugar makes the cookies too sweet, plus skipping saves a step. And using dark chocolate kisses is an absolute necessity IMHO. I doubled the recipe with great results. Fantastic cookies. Will make every year.

perfect cookies, no notes.

Based on another person’s comment, I tried rolling the cookies in both turbinado and regular sugar. After ample comparison testing, I think the turbinado wins out. It adds an extra crunch that is very satisfying, and the cookies do turn a lovely toasty brown.

Double the peanut butter for more intense flavor. Otherwise perfect! Helpful to use a scale to divide dough into 60 and keep balls same size

I used unpasteurized peanut butter (Trader Joe's - not sure if it is unpasteurized exactly but the oils pool). The dough needed more moisture and I should have added another bit of milk. Outcome was great though - delicious. I could have gotten more cookies if the dough had held together better.

I’ve made this recipe for over 7 years for my family’s Christmas cookie exchange. These cookies are delicious, easy and are always a hit!

I have a simpler recipe that I swear is perfection — one egg, one cup peanut butter, one teaspoon of vanilla. That’s it! Mix and cook at 325 for 8 minutes. I make my own dairy-free kisses using molds too, but only because I’m lactose intolerant.

Delicious, but got about 45 cookies, not 60.

I made these for the first time and love the recipe. Perfect blend of PB and chocolate

Plus 2 Tblsp milk

Outstanding.