Tired of baking the same batch of Christmas cookies every single year? Thanks to popular websites such as Pinterest, you can now spice up your traditional Christmas cookie with more nouveau recipes! By simply adding a few ingredients, you can make your typical Christmas cookie into something people will surely remember and crave more.

Peanut butter and red velvet, two popular favorites, but when blended together they make one delicious cookie. This recipe, a red velvet peanut butter blossom, puts a twist on the Christmas favorite.

Try it below, and be sure to let us know how they turn out!

Ingredients

  • 1 bag of Hershey’s Kisses
  • ½ cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
  • ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons of milk
  • 2 teaspoons of vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon of red gel food coloring
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • ¼ cup of red sanding sugar

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375
  2. Beat butter, peanut butter, and sugar in stand mixer for about 2 minutes on medium speed. Turn mixer to low and add in egg, milk, vanilla, and red food coloring. Mix for about 30 seconds to incorporate, then turn mixer to medium high and blend until light and fluffy.
  3. In a separate bowl sift cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt. With mixer on slow add flour mixture to sugar mixture and beat until just combined.
  4. Remove mixer bowl from stand. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Pour red sanding sugar onto small plate or bowl. Roll dough ball in sanding sugar and place on prepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
  5. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
  6. While baking unwrap Hershey's Kisses. Once cookies are done baking, remove from oven and immediately press a chocolate Kiss into the center of each cookie. The cookie should crack around edges.
  7. Allow cookies to cool to room temperature.

Source: I Am Baker

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