For as long as anyone can remember, wedding receptions in Pittsburgh have featured cookie tables, laden with dozens of homemade old-fashioned offerings like lady locks, pizzelles and buckeyes. For weeks ahead, sometimes months, mothers and aunts and grandmas and in-laws hunker down in the kitchen baking and freezing. These peanut butter and chocolate cookies were part of the spread at Laura Gerrero and Luke Wiehagen's wedding in 2009. Though peanut blossoms were popularized by Freda Smith in a 1957 Pillsbury Bake-Off competition, this version of the now-classic cookie came from the bride's family. —The New York Times
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Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, peanut butter, ½ cup granulated sugar and light brown sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat until well blended. Gradually add flour mixture, mixing thoroughly. If the dough is very soft, refrigerate for about 1 hour.
The New York Times Cooking
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Step 2
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray, oil or line a cookie sheet with nonstick liner and set aside. Roll dough into 1-inch balls. (For a precise number of cookies, divide the dough into 5 pieces, and shape each piece into 12 balls.)
Step 3
Roll cookies in sugar and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake until very light brown and puffed, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove sheet from oven and lightly press a candy kiss into center of each cookie, allowing it to crack slightly. Return to oven until light golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from oven, cool completely and store in an airtight container.
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Kay
My grandmother, Freda Smith from Gibsonburg Ohio, created these cookies and was the Bake-Off prize winner. It is true she did not win the Grand Prize but her legacy lives on through these cookies. She would love that they became so beloved by so many. My mother and I made a TV commercial for Pillsbury flour in 1965 because Freda had passed away. What a gift she gave us. Enjoy her Peanut Blossoms and know a wonderful woman from Ohio created them for her Grandkids.
Alyssa Kleiman
The recipe is wrong because it says it makes 5 dozen when it really makes 22 cookies
Esme
Longtime family tradition to use semisweet chocolate chips instead of Kisses. A less sweet chocolate makes them less cloying, there's a better chocolate-to-bite distribution, and the chips soften and then don't entirely harden after cooling. It's what's up.
JGE
I made these yesterday for the first time in years. I needed 4 dozen cookies for a bake sale - I got 56. I used a metal teaspoon to help me make even-sized cookies. I forgot how delicious they are; I'm sure they'll be an eye catcher. I still have the entire original NYT article in my cookbook, but I used the online version since shortening isn't in the pantry.
Mira
Delicious cookies, although we got 33 and they were the same size as the ones in the video and baked for the same time. Our brown sugar was rock hard so after trying (and failing) at the microwave method we just put it on a cutting board and chopped it really tiny which worked perfectly! So satisfying to press the kisses into the half baked cookies. Made for a bake sale and they sold fast!
JGE
The cookies in this NYT article are amazing. I still have the original in my cookbook.
