Chocolate Peanut Butter Kisses Cookies
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Do I have a surprise for you today…delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter Kisses Cookies. I made a couple of small changes to the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s Kisses bag, and they turned out perfectly!! They are soft, peanuty, chocolaty and really cute all decked out with sparkly sugar crystals and sprinkles!
How to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Kisses Cookies:
Beat together the shortening, chocolate peanut butter, sugars, and egg until fluffy and creamy…..
Stir in the the flour, baking soda and salt until well combined…..
Scoop dough and roll into 1-inch balls…..
Roll balls in sugar {I used decorative sugar crystals and sprinkles}…..
Place on a prepared baking sheet…..
Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, until set but not hard…..
Gently press a Hershey’s Kiss into the center of each cookie…..
Remove from baking sheet and place on a wire cooling rack and cool completely……
More delicious cookie recipes
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Monster Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookies with Reeses Pieces
- Double Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Mint Truffle Snowballs
Enjoy!!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Kisses Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cups chocolate peanut butter
- ½ cup shortening or butter at room temperature
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 2 Tablespoons milk can substitute coconut, almond or rice milk
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- granulated or decorative sugars to roll cookies in
- 24 - 36 unwrapped Hershey's KISSES
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cover two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpat.
- In a large bowl, beat together peanut butter, shortening, egg, sugars, and milk until smooth and creamy.
- Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Scoop dough and roll into 1-inch balls. Roll in sugar and place 3 inches apart on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until set but not hard.
- Gently press a "kiss" into the center of each cookie. Remove to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
I love kiss cookies and your recipe sounds delicious 🙂
Happy Blogging!
Happy Valley Chow
Thank you so much Eric. There is just something about putting chocolate and peanut butter together, I couldn’t resist. 🙂
These cookies look delicious, YUM! Pinned 🙂
Thank you Jenn! 🙂
Well hello there kisses!! You look so good. So does your hair Lisa. Love it!!
Awe, thank you Zainab. 🙂
Hahahaaa “I’ll get you my pretty”. I love that picture. And your hair looks great both curly and straight! I’ll have to try that Frizz Ease for the one annoying patch of curls I have underneath in the back. Why can’t it ALL just be curly?? lol Pinning those cookies right now! xo
LOL, that was my first thought when I saw my “green” face! Thank you Claire, I am very lucky to be able to wear my hair either way. The underneath of my hair in the back, is almost straight…go figure. 😉
The cookies looks fantastic, but I have to be honest, I was having WAY too much fun with the rest of the post. Lisa, you are a hoot and I have to you props for sharing that photo with the mask on your face and like Claire, I was laughing so hard at the I’ll get you my pretty! 🙂 Thanks so sharing this, totally enjoyed! Pinning the cookies! 😉
I hesitated a bit before I finally left those close ups on there. The “green” face had me cracking up too, all I could think of was The Wicked Witch of the West!! Thank you for pinning the cookies,and not my face! That might scare everyone off of pinterest, LOL. 😉