Healthier Peanut Kisses
These peanut kisses are just like the regular peanut butter blossom cookies we all love, but a little bit healthier!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter stirred, but drippy
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp milk or milk alternative
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup organic, all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar (for rolling the dough)
- 20 dark chocolate Hershey's Kisses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F and line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a stand mixer, or using a whisk and a large bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar together. Then add in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract and whisk until combined.
- Mix the flour, baking soda, and sea salt and set aside.
- Combine the dry and wet ingredients (in whichever bowl is larger) until just combined. *note: your dough will be slightly crumbly, but wet enough to make dough balls.
- Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and roll in a small bowl of coconut sugar then place on your baking sheet 2-inches apart.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes or until light brown.
- Remove and immediately stick your kisses in the center of the cookies. *note: your cookies will create large crevices when you do this, that's ok! once they cool the cookies will stay together.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes until they are hard enough to transfer to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
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Notes
how to store peanut butter blossoms
Store peanut butter blossom cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. The taste and texture significantly decline after day 1, so it's best to devour right away! A tip for helping your peanut butter cookies stay moist while storing is to keep a quarter piece of white bread in the airtight storage container. The cookies will absorb the moisture from the bread and stay soft and chewy!peanut kisses Tips
- Kiss immediately - Stick that kiss on the cookie immediately out of the oven. If you wait the cookie will start to cool and solidify, preventing you from being able to stick the kiss on.
- Cookie scoop - using a cookie scoop helps to get the perfect portion for your balls of dough.
- Quality ingredients - especially with baking, it's important to use high-quality ingredients. When you can't hide behind spices and herbs, you want to be sure you have the best flavor profile to fall back on. Also, healthy ingredients are best even when treating yourself!
