Christmas Peanut Blossom Cookies -

Christmas Peanut Blossom Cookies

Classic Peanut Blossoms are a lot of fun when they get decked out for Christmas. You can make Reindeer, Santa Hats, and Christmas Trees by adding a few simple decorations.

Prep Time1

Cook Time20

Inactive Time1 39

Total Time2

Course: Cookies

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 116kcal

Ingredients

For the cookies

1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Granulated sugar for rolling
36 milk chocolate Hershey Kisses unwrapped

For the Christmas decorations

24 pretzels broken into antler pieces
Red and Green frosting I bought it in tubes
Sprinkles for the Christmas trees
Black writing gel for the reindeer eyes

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar. Beat in the peanut butter, egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour, salt and baking soda. Roll into 36, approximately 1-inch balls. Roll each ball in granulated sugar.
Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from the oven and immediately press an unwrapped Hershey Kiss into the center of each cookie. If making reindeer cookies, press the broken pretzel pieces into the cookies for antlers as well. Let cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Let cookies cool completely and until Hershey kisses are no longer melted. Then decorate.
To make the reindeer cookies, add two little eyes with the black writing gel. And pipe a dot of red frosting on the top of the Hershey kiss for a nose.
To make the Christmas trees, pipe green frosting in a spiral around the Hershey kiss. Then, add add the sprinkles for ornaments.
To make the Santa Hats, pipe red frosting around the base of the kiss and on top.

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