Easy Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Peanut butter blossoms are a peanut butter cookie that has a Hershey's kiss smooshed into the center of the cookie. This recipe only uses three ingredients for an easy peanut butter blossom that takes almost no time to make!

Even though I LOVE peanut butter blossoms, I have no time these days. So I decided to make these easiest ever, 3-ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms!

The classic way of making these peanut butter blossom cookies is to make a peanut butter dough from scratch, roll balls of the peanut butter dough in sugar, bake, and then put the kiss on the cookie. That's how my mom always made them when we were little.

However, I've got a baby and a toddler and sometimes cooking means racing the clock to make something before a child wakes up from naptime. Most days I don't have time to make a peanut butter cookie dough from scratch. I barely have time to make anything! So the magic here is using PREMADE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DOUGH. Yes. Not fancy. But a fantastic shortcut. And still so, so delicious. Sometimes we need shortcuts in our lives.

What are peanut butter blossoms?

Peanut butter blossoms are just peanut butter cookies that are rolled in sugar, then after they come out of the oven, a Hershey's kiss is pressed into the center of the cookie! The bottom of the kiss gets slightly melted from the warmth of the cookie, but the kiss retains its signature shape.

This makes for a delicious, unique chocolate peanut butter cookie.

Ingredients:

• Premade peanut butter cookie dough - You can usually find two different types. You can find the kind that are already portioned into cookies (like in the photo below) or you can find the kind that comes in a log, and then you scoop out the amount you want for each cookie. Either works! You can usually find these types of premade dough in the refrigerated section of grocery stores next to the biscuits.
• Hershey's Kisses - a KEY ingredient. Obviously, unwrap before using. The traditional way is to use milk chocolate kisses, but if you're feeling daring, you can use the Hugs kind or a different flavor. Peppermint might be great for the holidays! Just keep in mind that you want it to pair nicely with the peanut butter.
• Sugar - You'll just need some simple white granulated sugar. Only 2 tablespoons though!

Recipe variations:

• Use red or green sanding sugar for a festive look for the holidays instead of regular granulated sugar. Or other colors for other events!
• As mentioned above, you can use different types/flavors of Hershey's kisses to mix it up.
• Want more peanut butter flavor? Instead of a kiss, use a mini peanut butter cup instead.

How to make the Peanut Butter Blossoms:

Making the peanut butter blossoms is so easy and just uses those three ingredients! First, you unwrap 24 kisses so you have them handy. (And maybe a few extras for snacking on!) Then you simply roll up peanut butter dough into balls, using the warmth of your hands to shape them properly.

After that, it's as easy as rolling each peanut butter dough ball in some sugar, and then placing on a cookie sheet.

After they are done baking, you immediately stick a chocolate kiss into the center of each one. The bottom of the chocolate will melt a little from the warmth of the cookie, but the shape of the kiss should stay intact. It makes for a delicious cookie bite!

Love this recipe? Try some of our other easy desserts:

• Gooey, delicious Chess Bars
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Pineapple Cherry Dump Cake