Classic Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Peanut Butter Blossom Ingredients

This peanut blossom cookie recipe uses pantry staple ingredients for a super simple yet delicious dough you can make year-round. Here’s what you’ll need to make peanut butter blossoms.

Granulated and Brown Sugar: Together, these sugars help your cookie dough take on the tender, soft and perfectly chewy texture you love from snackable peanut butter blossoms. You’ll also use additional granulated sugar to roll your cookie dough balls in before baking.

Creamy Peanut Butter: Peanut butter is the star of this peanut butter blossom recipe, bringing that sweet-salty flavor you know and love. While we haven’t tested this recipe with other types of peanut butter (we know there are plenty of crunchy PB fans out there!), feel free to experiment. Just keep in mind that different kinds of peanut butter can alter the texture and overall outcome of your cookies.

Butter: Butter brings richness, tenderness, and structure to your cookie dough. Nobody wants a dry and crumbly cookie!

Egg: The egg helps maintain the shape, texture, and overall structure of your peanut blossom cookies.

Flour: This ingredient is necessary for structure—that’s why you’ll find flour in recipes for most baked goods!

Baking Soda: Evenly baked peanut butter blossom cookies require baking soda, which encourages spreading.

Baking Powder: Don’t skip the baking powder—it encourages the cookie dough to puff up for a perfectly fluffy result.

Milk Chocolate Kiss Candies: The milk chocolate kisses balance out the sweet and salty flavors of your peanut butter blossom cookies, creating the craveable peanut butter-chocolate flavor combination you love.

How to Make Peanut Blossom Cookies

This peanut blossom recipe is anything but complicated. In just three simple steps, your cookies are all set to serve! Check out our quick overview of how to make peanut butter blossoms, then read on for the full step-by-step recipe.

Make Dough

Get out your electric mixer because it’s time to make peanut butter blossom dough! While your oven heats, beat together the butter, some granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, and an egg until well blended. Then stir in the dry ingredients until you’ve formed a dough.

Shape and Place Cookies

Now that you’ve got your cookie dough, it’s time to shape it into 1-inch balls. Roll each cookie dough ball in additional granulated sugar before placing them on your cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches of space between each cookie to allow for spreading.

Bake Cookies and Add Kisses

Into the oven your peanut butter blossoms go! Take them out once the edges are light golden brown, and immediately press 1 chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie. Transfer your peanut butter kiss cookies to a cooling rack so they can set and cool.

How to Store Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Have some leftover peanut butter blossoms? That’s a first! There’s no need to refrigerate your extra cookies—you can safely store them at room temperature for several days or in the freezer using the instructions below.

At Room Temperature: Store any leftover baked peanut butter blossoms in a covered container on the counter. Make sure they’re stored separately from other kinds of cookies to avoid any transfer of texture or flavor within the container. We’d be surprised if they weren’t devoured immediately!

In the Freezer: These peanut butter blossom cookies can also be frozen. Make sure to let them cool until the kisses are fully set (at least a few hours) before placing your cookies in an airtight container. They’ll freeze well for up to 2 months!