Peanut Butter Chocolate Kisses
You all know how much I love peanut butter.
And the only thing better than peanut butter is peanut butter cookies.
Peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips…oatmeal cookies with chips….
Peanut butter chip cookies… (It’s hard to tell, but there’s a few of my PB cookies sprinkled amidst Ben’s chocolate chip ones)
And now, Invisible Friends, we have….
Peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses.
You see, while I’m allergic to chocolate, I realize most people love it.
Particurlary Ben.
These cookies almost didn’t get made when he discovered the bag of Hershey Kisses I’d hidden. I had to hide the kisses for these cookies.
The best thing about these cookies, apart from the fact they won rave reviews from my co-workers and Ben…
Is that I got a better peanut butter cookie recipe than the one I’ve been using for years.
It wasn’t handed down from someone’s grandma…
It wasn’t in a old church or junior league cookbook…
And it wasn’t from a quaint local bakery.
It was on the back of the Jif jar of peanut butter.
And it’s amazing.
While I still adore my orginal recipe….
the new Jif recipe has created a affectionate spot in my heart right next to it.
One can never have too many peanut butter cookies.
Trust me.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Kiss Cookies
or Delicious PB cookies (Recipe from Jif)
3/4 cup Jif creamy PB
1/2 cup Crisco all-vegetable shortening
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
3 tblspns milk
1 tblspn vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1) Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2) Combine Jif peanut butter, shortening, light brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until well beaten. Add egg. Beat until blended.
3) Add flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix until just blended. Drop by heaping teaspoons 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet (I used parchment paper.) Flatten in criss-cross pattern with fork.
3) Bake at 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes, or until set and beginning to brown. Press Hershey Kiss in center of each cookie, quickly. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies from foil to cool completely.
4) Beware of the cookie-stealing bunny.
And Christmas-cookie loving owls.
Stay tuned, Invisible Friends! Tomorrow we have a new Dallas Jean and Saturday, the rest of our 12 Christmas artists of the Pond! Stay tuned!
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 am
How did you know I was craving peanut butter and chocolate?! In the UK we can’t get (1) peanut butter cups (2) hershey kisses (3) many brands of peanut butter! Grrrr! Do you think it would work with chocolate buttons and skippy peanut butter? I’m going to have a go! Visiting from SITS
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 am
I love the cookie stealing bunny!! I haven’t done any baking for a while…the very idea makes me hungry!
Thanks for stopping by my blog today.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:09 am
Those look so yummy! Thanks for stopping by to say hi. I am going to be subscribing. Love your new look!
~Lanie
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 am
emmm I love peanut butter even on toast and crackers thus I’ll try some of the recipes.
Dorothy from grammology
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December 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 am
They look really good!
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 am
Oh my god they look SO good.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 am
Yummy! And I always love to see the owls!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 am
You can never have too many PB cookies!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 am
Yum, yum, yum! I like ALL the cookies. I must try each kind as a taste test.
Please?
I bet the peanut butter is amazing!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:12 am
as cookie monster would say cookeeeze”
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
They look delicious! I love the fact that you got the recipe from the back of the jar!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 am
I never get tired of that cookie stealing bunny. Still cracks me up every time! Peanut butter and chocolate together are just amazing!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 am
Peanut butter and chocolate- a marriage made in Wonkaland…
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:59 am
LOL @ direction #4! I’d invite the cutie-pie in to share.
I wonder if this works with the freshly ground stuff because we don’t buy Jiff. Will have to give it a try. Thanks for the recipe!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 am
These are a favorite in my house too!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 am
Yum! A chocolate allergy would be devastating to me! Good thing you’re not allergic to Peanut butter, too!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:17 am
Just give me the PB. I like chocolate but can do without it.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 am
Mmmm, mmm, good!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 am
is there anything better than PB Kiss cookies?!
xoox
kHm
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 am
LOL my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe…………came off the bag of…………..chocolate chips
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
I’ve told people that once I hit forty, I’m going to lock myself in the house with a huge vat of peanut butter and large quantities of chocolate bars, and eat myself into oblivion. I’m telling the truth here. Though I still have a long way to go; thus, until then, these will be satisfactory!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
those look too yummy! The only thing better than chocolate is chocolate with peanut butter. I feel so bad that you are allergic to chocolate, that I’m going to eat some right now to make up for what you can’t eat. Cause I’m a good invisible friend like that.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Peanut butter and chocolate is divine!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 am
These are some of my favorite kind of cookies!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 am
Perfect! I was planning to make PB cookies tonight for a weekend trip, I am totally adding a kiss to each one now. They sound and look delicious!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:57 am
Now i’m drooling! I also love PB and also chocolate sorry. Jane x
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 am
They sound delicious. I know some people are weird or embarassed about the back of the jar recipes, but they’re often the best ones! My signature chocolate chip cookie recipe that everyone always raves about can be found on Nestle’s chocolate morsels package.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 am
From one peanut butter lover to another, how could these not taste divine? Yummy!
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 am
Yum! I make those too but mine are puffy. Hmm…I wonder what we do differently….either way, same recipe so I know yours are delicious!
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 am
peanut butter cookies sound so fantastic with chocolate kisses, great idea!
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 am
We share a love of peanut butter. What a shame you can’t have chocolate.
Your cookies look wonderful.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Mmmm I love peanut butter! I feel bad that you can’t have chocolate but I would feel even worse if you couldn’t have peanut butter. At least you can have that delicious treat
What is cookie stealing bunnies favorite cookie?
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
Yummy! These cookies look terrific!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 am
I love peanut butter cookies, and oatmeal cookies. I love peanut butter, too. I’ve actually made it, but not for making cookies. And why aren’t you extolling the virtues of peanut butter pie? I’ve never had it, but it must surely exist!
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 am
I’ll have a lot of peanut butter cookies!
It’s such a pity you can’t eat chocolate.
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I love peanut butter too. Your cookies look delicious.
P.S.
I totally agree with your comments on my blog. Very well said!!!
love and hugs hugs
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Your peanut butter kisses look fantastic and Jif is actually my fav PB!
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I have to hide the kisses in my house too! the cookies look scrumptious.
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
…….even these I will try to bake….for sure..!!!!
I love peanut butter and love to bake cookies…and love, love to eat them…!!!!!!!
Oh, Dear; in your comment you wrote the word “precious”..and I realized I did an error in my post-title: I wrote “prescious”….aiaiai….have to be careful and catch up with my english; I don’t use it anymore so often….!!!!!
have a great day and thank you for coming back in my Tuscany; I just love it!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
What could be better than peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss. Ben must be loving you!
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
YAY This time I was smart enough not to read this until after my lunch! They still make me hungry though, guess I can’t win!
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
mmmmm . . . I LOVE peanut butter cookies!
You have a great site here! Thanks for stopping by mine yesterday.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
geez – forgot to leave my name . . . duh!
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Ciao ! Now I know what to make when you come for dinner !!! The owls are almost as cute as the rabbit !
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Duckie, the part of the cookie stealing bunny today will be played by me. These look FABULOUS!
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
We decided the same thing a few years back. That label recipe rocks!
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I lurve those cookies and I use the same recipe too!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Yum-tastic! And the Cookie-Stealing Bunny looks like he’s having a blast…
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
these are my favorite christmas cookie! delicious!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Super cute pictures! I SO want one of these right now – yum!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I really need to start with my Christmas baking. Your cookies look so inviting…I will start Monday I hope
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I’ll fight the bunny for one of those cookies! Yummy, with or without the kiss.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Duckie — why can’t I come live at the pond???
XOXO
Jen
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Those biscuits look delightfully, deliciously sinful…
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I didn’t know you are allergic to chocolate!
Oh man, I love Jif Peanut butter! I didn’t pay attention to the back–I didn’t know there’s a recipe, lol. Oh, have you tasted the Reeses peanut butter chips? They are sooo good alone. I haven’t tried them on cookies.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Thank you. You have made this Little Piggie most definitely in the mood for a cookie or two. Or ten.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am
What a sweetheart to make these for Ben, even though you know you can’t really have one yourself! There should be a little package arriving for you soon! *smoochies* lova ya! xxoo
December 4th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Waw,…your cookies look excellent, Duckie!!
Oooh,..I wish we were neighbours!! We would laugh a lot together!!
hahaha,…Bunny stealing the cookies!! I also love your Owls!!Hahahahaha,…
December 4th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Oh! you’re tempting me! If only my hands could go through the computer screen so I could take just one bite….
December 4th, 2009 at 2:46 am
I know its breakfast time right now…but wow, I could eat a dozen of those! super yummy photos!
December 4th, 2009 at 7:24 am
My oh my! You got my stomach growling early in the morning. Those peanut butter cookies looks sooo good. I can imagine them in my mouth right now.
December 4th, 2009 at 8:33 am
HA! JIF! Told ya
December 4th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I love peanut butter cookies—these look delicious. Wow, I could snack on these all day if they were in front of me.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
oh my! i want those NOW!!
December 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
These ALWAYS remind me of the holidays- they are so tasty. Great job chica. <3 nut butter. Thanks for the compliments on the jeans
December 4th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Oh yum!! I LOVE peanut butter cookies!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Peanut butter and chocolate form one of the world’s best combinations. I can’t wait to bring out my super-duper chocolate peanut butter cake for Christmas this year.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am
YUM! Seeing this totally puts me in the mood to bake some more!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Of course one can never have too many pb cookies. Of course!!!
December 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
peanut butter is my equivalent of soul food! Love it. Pictures make me hungry!
December 7th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I love PB, but the best is PB with chocolate! I’ve never heard of a chocolate allergy, I’m so sorry!!!
December 9th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
You know I am OBSESSED with peanut butter!
Especially when it is licked off of a cereal spoon at 3 in the morning.
I am posting a Peanut Butter Pie recipe in a couple of days. I’ve been making this pie since I was 12!
Thank you for sharing this recipe… I have not have PB kiss cookies in ages! Yum!