As if pairing peanut butter and chocolate weren’t addictive enough, these caramel peanut butter cookies (topped with caramel-filled chocolate candy Kisses) will have you hoping your holiday dinner guests are too full to eat dessert so you can keep all these treats for yourself!
You can’t have a holiday dessert table without offerings of irresistible cookies … and these definitely qualify as irresistible. Putting a chocolate Kiss on top of something already so delicious rockets this caramel-peanut butter cookie to the sweet stratosphere.
‘Best sugar cookie I’ve ever baked’: A must-try dessert recipe
This recipe is a tasty little twist on the classic peanut butter blossoms cookie ⎯ a tried-and-true favorite that’s been around for years.
If a regular chocolate Kiss is good, a caramel-filled chocolate Kiss is a can’t-stop-eating holiday dessert. Our advice is to make a couple extra dozen of these holiday goodies because they will go fast.
Caramel peanut butter blossom cookies
Makes: 3 dozen cookies
Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 1 egg, blended
- 1-½ tablespoons warm water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-½ cups all-purpose white flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 36 caramel Kisses (unwrapped)
Instructions:
- Heat oven to 375F.
- Place butter in large mixing bowl. Using mixer, beat butter on medium speed until creamy.
- Add sugars and continue to beat until thoroughly combined.
- Add peanut butter and beaten egg, water and vanilla extract. Continue to mix well.
- In another large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Pour flour mixture into sugar mixture. Continue to mix well.
- Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
- Roll each in additional granulated sugar.
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Place cookies on baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until edges are light golden brown. Remove from oven.
- Immediately press 1 milk chocolate Kiss into center of each cookie. Allow cookies to cool on sheets for 5 minutes.
- Remove cookies from baking sheets. Transfer to a wire rack to continue cooling.
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