Peanut Butter Cookies

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It's that time of year again where families gather to enjoy quality time, watch football/ family-friendly movies, and of course enjoy good food. One of my favorite things about the holidays is baking, more in specifically cookies. I tend to find baking to be a fun and relaxing so much so that I've no doubt I whipped up the majority if not all of the holiday classics at some point in time. My mom usually is my sidekick in the kitchen and growing up she taught me how to make gingerbread men, Russian tea cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies (her favorite as well as my fathers), peanut butter blossoms, sugar and chocolate chip, etc. I don't discriminate and neither did she. Personally my all time favorite has to be the peanut butter blossoms which are just a regular peanut butter cookie with a Hershey kiss on top. It's quite simple to make, and it tastes delicious. Something that may surprise you is that peanut butter cookies can be made using just three ingredients: …show more content…

The one I like to use would be Hershey's, you can find it easily on their website. Usually I like to have a printed recipe on hand while I bake but they also offer a video tutorial on their Youtube channel if you’d rather go off that. Their recipe calls for 48 Hershey kisses, ½ cup shortening, ¾ cup Reese's peanut butter, ⅓ cup granulated sugar, ⅓ cup light brown sugar, 1 egg, 2 tbsp milk, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 ½ cup all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking soda, ½ tsp salt and ⅓ cup granulated sugar for rolling. It may sound like a lot, but trust me when I say the payoff is worth it. Once you've got everything you need, you must preheat the oven to 375. While the oven preheats you can begin following the recipe. Warning! If you begin making the dough before you preheat the oven you put yourself through the torture of having to wait even longer before satisfying that sweet tooth of yours. Do you really want

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