Peanut Butter Blossoms

These cute little cookies are just too good to reserve for the holidays.  Make them whenever you're having a major craving for peanut butter.  I do not recommend using any type of commercial peanut butter for these aside from natural peanut butter, which has NO sugar or trans fats (all other peanut butters that aren't natural have added sugars and trans fats in them).  Smuckers Natural Creamy peanut butter is a wonderful brand to use here.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

48 Hershey’s Kisses chocolates
½ cup butter

¾ cup Smuckers Natural creamy peanut butter

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup packed light brown sugar

1 egg

2 tbsp. milk

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. kosher salt

Granulated sugar

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Remove the foil from the chocolates.

Beat the butter and peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended.  Add 1/3 cup sugar and the brown sugar; beat until fluffy.  Add the egg, milk and vanilla – beat well.  Stir together the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into the peanut butter mixture.

Shape the dough into 1 inch balls.  Roll in granulated sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheets or on sheet pans lined with parchment paper.

Bake 8 – 10 minutes or until lightly browned.  Immediately press a chocolate into the center of each cookie; the cookie will crack around the edges.  Remove from the sheet to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.

Makes about 4 dozen