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Hershey-Kissed Peanut Butter Cookies

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PB Cookie with Kisses

Hershey-Kissed Peanut Butter Cookies
 
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Serves: Makes 20 large cookies
Ingredients
  • 40 Hershey Kisses, halved lengthwise
  • 1 cup all-purpose bleached flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) butter, melted until warm but not hot
  • 1½ cups creamy peanut butter
  • 2 cups packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup roasted peanuts, chopped coarse
Instructions
  1. Prepare Kisses and set aside.
  2. Mix flour and baking soda in a small bowl; set aside. Mix butter, peanut butter and brown sugar in a medium bowl until smooth. Mix eggs and vanilla in a small bowl. Add to peanut butter mixture; beat with a rubber spatula until smooth. Add flour mixture and peanuts; stir until well combined.
  3. Using a 2-ounce (1/4 cup) spring-action ice cream scoop form dough balls and scoop onto a plastic wrap-rimmed baking sheet.  Freeze until solid, about 30 minutes.
  4. When ready to bake cookies, adjust oven racks lower-middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. Working 6 or 7 dough balls at a time, arrange them on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. Bake until cookies are golden, but not dark brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from oven and, working quickly, press 4 Hershey Kiss halves onto each cookie and let stand on cookie sheet to firm up, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.

 

About Maggy Keet

As a New Yorker, I take full advantage of the ever evolving, always exciting restaurant scene. But most days, my “happy place” is found in my tiny Manhattan kitchen where I cook two meals a day. My perfect night is spent listening to NPR, while drinking a glass of wine, and creating a simple, (most often) vegetarian supper which I enjoy with my husband, Andy. In addition to blogging, writing, and planning events, I work full time as a Development Fundraiser.

13 Comments

  2. Tickled Red says

    I am a Reese’s junkie so these are completely, entirely and totally right up my alley. If I didn’t have to make 11 dozen cookies this weekend for a wedding I would be making these today. I may cry in my coffee thinking about the 4 day wait to devour one of those amazing cookies.

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  5. Amber says

    Mags, I’m digging the kiss-configuration in these cookies. They look beautiful. If I didn’t have a peanut butter hater in my house (Tell me, how is it we got married?), I would be making this recipe stat. But it’s just far too dangerous to have 20 large cookies of this nature in my house when I’m the only one that would eat them! I think I’ll go cry in my coffee too.

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  12. susan says

    Everyone in my household loves Reece’s so these will be a hit. Love the simple kiss design too!

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