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Peanut butter blossoms are a favorite cookie swap cookie that tend to have a huge presence during the holiday season. And I can’t say I’m upset about that, they’re chewy but not too sticky and have just the right amount of chocolate in them. But when I was looking for a peanut butter blossom recipe, most recipes I found made 60-80 cookies.
I don’t know anyone in 2020 who has been around enough people to consume 80 cookies, so I developed a recipe that makes just a tenth of that. I hope you and your quaranteam (or just you, because honestly I could eat 8 of these myself) enjoy!
Small Batch Peanut Butter Blossoms
A batch of just 8 deliciously chewy peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate kisses
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar (1 tablespoon for the cookie dough and 1 tablespoon to roll the dough in before baking)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 large egg (we'll only use part of the egg)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoons flour
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder
- A pinch salt
- 8 unwrapped chocolate kisses
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, a silicone mat, or spray it with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, microwave the butter (2 tablespoons) in 5 second intervals until it softens. Softened butter should still feel cool to the touch. Your finger should make an indent but not slide off the stick. In my microwave this only takes 5-10 seconds for a half stick of butter.
- Add the peanut butter (3 tablespoons), sugar (1 tablespoon), and brown sugar (2 tablespoons) to the bowl. Use a hand mixer to beat until the ingredients are homogenous and smooth, about 2 minutes. You'll notice that the mixture lightens in color as you mix.
- We are going to add the egg next, but since this is such a small recipe you only need 1 tablespoon of the egg. Here's the easiest way to do that: crack your egg into a separate small bowl. Using a fork, whisk the egg really, really well, like for at least 30 seconds.
- Carefully measure out 1 tablespoon and add it to the bowl with the peanut butter mixture. If it's hard to get the egg to fill a whole tablespoon, you can measure out 3 teaspoons instead.
- Add the vanilla extract (½ teaspoon) to the bowl with the egg and peanut butter mixture and use your hand mixture to beat until you don't see any streaks of egg or vanilla.
- Add the flour (5 tablespoons), baking powder (⅛ teaspoon), and a pinch of salt (about half of ⅛ teaspoon) to the bowl. Use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to slowly mix until everything comes together as a dough.
- Add your remaining sugar (1 tablespoon) to a very small bowl. Measure out 1 tablespoon of your dough and roll it into a ball. Roll the ball around in the sugar until the whole ball is covered in sugar.
- Place the dough on your prepared baking sheet and repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes.
- While the cookies are in the oven, unwrap the chocolate kisses. You'll need to put them on top of the cookies as soon as you take them out of the oven.
- You'll know the cookies are done when the tops look dry and the edges just start to get golden brown. The cookies will not flatten out very much in the oven, but that's ok because you want them to be thick enough to hold your chocolate kiss.
- As soon as you take your cookies out of the oven, place a chocolate kiss in the center of each cookie and push it in to the flatten the cookie. The sides of the cookie will likely crack.
- Leave the cookies on the hot pan for 3-5 minutes and then enjoy!
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and prepare a cookie sheet.
- Soften the butter (3 tablespoons) in the microwave and add the butter, peanut butter (3 tablespoons), sugar (1 tablespoon, and brown sugar (2 tablespoons) to a medium bowl bowl. Use a hand mixer to beat until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg very well and measure out 1 tablespoon.
- Add the 1 tablespoon of egg and vanilla (½ teaspoon) to the bowl with the peanut butter mixture and use your hand mixture to beat until well combined.
- Add the flour (5 tablespoons), baking powder (⅛ teaspoon), and a pinch of salt to the bowl. Use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to slowly mix until everything comes together as a dough.
- Add your remaining sugar (1 tablespoon) to a very small bowl. Measure out 1 tablespoon of your dough and roll it into a ball. Roll the ball around in the sugar until the whole ball is covered in sugar.
- Place the dough on your prepared baking sheet and repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes. Unwrap your chocolate kisses while the cookies are in the oven.
- As soon as you take your cookies out of the oven, place a chocolate kiss in the center of each cookie and push it in to the flatten the cookie. The sides of the cookie will likely crack.
- Leave the cookies on the hot pan for 3-5 minutes and then enjoy!
NOTES
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