Maxine Line’s Peanut Blossom Cookies - Wayne McCormick

Maxine Line’s Peanut Blossom Cookies 

Ingredients:

  • 1-3/4 cups flour. *(For high altitude use 1 ½ cups of flour). 
  • 1 egg yolk 
  • 1 tsp soda 
  • ½ tsp salt 
  • ½ cup sugar 
  • ½ cup brown sugar (firmly packed) 
  • ½ cup margarine or butter 
  • ½ cup peanut butter 
  • 2 Tbsp milk 
  • 1 tsp vanilla 
  • 48 each Hershey’s candy kisses 

Instructions:

  1. Combine all ingredients except kisses in a bowl and mix.  
  2. Shape in small balls and roll in extra sugar.  
  3. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.  
  4. Bake at 375 (for an older oven, bake at 350) for 8 - 10 minutes. 
  5. Top each cookie at once with a candy kiss.  
  6. Press down so the cookie cracks around the edge.

 

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