Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

...Because sometimes plain old peanut butter cookies are not enough. :)

This is one of the recipes I made at Christmas for my gift bags at work. I LOVE these things. I have a really bad habit of eating the cookie all around the kiss and then eating that last bite all at once. I love it!

This is a very easy cookie to make because it doesn't have a ton of ingredients, and it doesn't make an enormous batch. It's a good quick Sunday afternoon recipe...and would be something fun to take to parties. With the Super Bowl coming up, I thought it might be good to go ahead and post this now. Enjoy!

The Recipe

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Hershey Kisses

In a mixing bowl, cream peanut butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Beat until blended. Drop small teaspoon size portions of dough on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until tops are cracked. Press Hershey kiss in the center of each cookie. Cool for five minutes and remove from pan.

This recipe makes a little over two dozen cookies, but I make sure I have plenty of kisses on hand in case I make a few extra...or in case I need a snack. As usual, I do NOT use imitation vanilla, and I do use generic peanut butter even though I know you're not supposed to.
I do use a mixer rather than just hand mixing these ingredients. My mixer isn't all that great (haven't replaced my good one that died) so I have to really hang onto it. The peanut butter clings onto the beaters pretty quickly and makes them jump around.

After you add the egg and vanilla, the dough will be very thick and sticky. Not like traditional cookie dough.

I don't bother to make them very pretty - I'm only going to smash them down in a minute.

They don't expand much during baking...they mostly just brown on top.

If you don't put the Hershey kiss in pretty quickly, it will crumble the cookie. You'll want to press it down in, but not so much that the cookie breaks when you remove it from the pan.

Eat up! Enjoy!