Kisses You Can Give to Anyone!

I grew up eating these every year at Valentine's Day & the Mama Bear still sends me a box to this day…you're never too old for Mom's cookies!  In keeping with tradition, I took her recipe and made a few adjustments {she hates when I do this} and now I make them this time every year as well.  They are super easy and an inexpensive gift ~ I even gave a box to a trainer at my gym to ask him out on a date…it worked ;p.

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
4oz butter; room temperature
1/2cup Adam's Peanut Butter; Crunchy & Salted
1/2cup light brown sugar
1/2cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3cup all purpose flour
1teaspoon baking soda
1/2teaspoon kosher salt
3/4cup salted peanuts; medium chopped
1 package Hershey Dark Chocolate Kisses; UNWRAPPED


Cream butter, sugars & peanut butter in a standing mixer until light and fluffy

Add egg, scrape down sides & add vanilla extract.

Sift flour, salt & baking soda into a bowl; add chopped peanuts.  Mix dry ingredients into butter mixture until combined.

Cover/wrap dough in plastic & chill for 1 hour.

Pre-heat oven to 325F


Roll dough into balls the size of a ping pong ball; roll in granulated sugar & place on a baking sheet (I always double-pan my cookies to prevent burning).

Rotate pans 180 degrees half way through baking.

When cookies are just turning brown on the edges, remove the pan from the oven and place a chocolate kiss in the center of each cookie & return them to the oven for 15 seconds.**


**Its very important that you time how long the chocolate is in the oven.  If you leave it in too long, you will have a melted mess!


Understanding:  By putting the chocolate back in the oven instead of just adding the kiss at the end, you are tempering the chocolate.  This means when the cookies are completely cooled and the chocolate is set, it will have more of a truffle consistency that is easy to bite into instead of a hard piece of chocolate.

Note: They are delicious a few minutes out of the oven, but if you are going to package them, wait several hours for the chocolate to set so they maintain their kiss shape.