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12.18.2006 :: A few of my favorite things, part 2
To me, Christmas isn't Christmas until I start flinging some flour and butter around. Although this first recipe has neither, it isn't Christmas in my house until the air if fragrant with the aroma of freshly baked Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies. And your home should be too.
I found this recipe years and years (and years) ago in a magazine of some sort. My oven has seen them every year since. With only 3 ingredients, these are the easiest and most peanut buttery cookie you will ever have. I hope you give them a try and see for yourself!
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
18 ounces smooth peanut butter
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Mix all ingredients by hand.
Roll about 1 tablespoon of dough into a ball (it's sticky) and yummy, but you didn't hear it from me.
Bake 12-14 minutes until dry and cracked looking on top. Press a Hershey's kiss (Unwrapped, of course) into the top right when cookies come out of oven.
Cool on rack.
Eat one while the kiss is still melty, before the chance gets away from you! YULE love them!
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That's it! I know you are skeptical! No flour??? You are muttering to your computer screen. I know. Try it, though.
And then there's these,
Every year, I look longingly at other people's Spritz cookies. This year, I have a cookie press and know how to use it!
Having little sugary treats on hand helps my Christmas spirit right along!
There will be sugar cookies and some gingerbread men to add to the collection this week!
Cookies for Breakfast anyone?
Posted by Sandy on 12.18.2006 AT 05:48 AM
Comments
Wow! I make Peanut Butter Kiss cookies but with a more traditional dough, including flour and baking powder and boring stuff like that. ;-) I'll have to try your version sometime.
Posted by: Kat with a K on 12.21.2006 AT 04:19 PM
To add to the excitement running through the kids veins already on Christmas, we always had cookies for breakfast. Since the bedrooms & kitchen were on a different floor than the Christmas tree (and presents), it was always the boys job to assemble the cookie plate to take downstairs to eat while unwrapping presents. Plus they weren't allowed out of bed before 5 am!
Posted by: Felicia on 12.19.2006 AT 09:36 AM
We used to wrap the dough around the Hershey's kiss, covering it completely . Then we baked the little balls. Yum!
Posted by: susan on 12.19.2006 AT 08:05 AM
I LOVE holiday cookies. Those look so yummy. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.
Posted by: Laurie on 12.19.2006 AT 07:42 AM
I love your Hiking Scarves,the colours are so effective,They may be on my gift list next year!!!!
I have a fav peanut butter biccy recipie too and its ages since I cooked them(mine have flour though)
Posted by: cathy on 12.19.2006 AT 05:53 AM
Those peanut butter cookes impress the heck out of people for some reason, don't they? And they're so simple! I always had to wait ages for them to cool and the chocoalte to set up enough to put them away, though.
Now spritz cookies? ARE Christmas to me, going back as far as I can remember. My mom's are fab. The coloured sugar was my job as a wee girl. :-)
Posted by: Amanda on 12.18.2006 AT 08:42 PM
HOW? Did you know that was what I was thinking?! NO FLOUR! They sound wonderful and I have an 18 year old son that loves peanut butter cookies so I must try them. Guess I will head to Sam's for some of those GIANT jars of PB! Thanks and Happy Holidays.
Posted by: emmy on 12.18.2006 AT 08:02 PM
I started the day with a 1/2 cup fat free yogurt, 1/4 cup of granola and FOUR cookies.
Way to go me.
I love Peanut Butter cookies - what is not to love. Peanut Butter. Sugar. Little bit of chocolate? Yum!
Posted by: meg on 12.18.2006 AT 03:33 PM
I love my cookie gun.
Is it weird that I always feel a little paranoid this time of year? *L*
Posted by: Cookie on 12.18.2006 AT 03:01 PM
I ADORE spritz cookies, I knew Christmas was on its way when the sound of Mom's electric cookie spritz filled the kitchen. That thing is from the 70's and it rings in the holidays at Mom's house every year.
Posted by: Tracey on 12.18.2006 AT 02:02 PM
Spritz cookies! I love spritz cookies! No one here likes them so I never get to make them. Yummy. Eat some for me. oh, please.
Posted by: britt on 12.18.2006 AT 01:48 PM
Mmm. Would you believe that *I* am so lame in the cookie department that my mom is baking in CA and bringing cookies in her carry-on luggage???
Posted by: claudia on 12.18.2006 AT 01:39 PM
That reminds me - I picked up a cookie press at a garage sale this summer. I have to pull it out!
Posted by: Bookish Wendy on 12.18.2006 AT 01:32 PM
Mmmm, cookies. Aaagggg (think Homer).
I love that peanut butter recipe. I was skeptical at first too, but they have become a favourite around here.
Posted by: Dorothy B on 12.18.2006 AT 01:27 PM
I had peanut butter fudge for breakfast Is that close enough?
Posted by: blogless sharon on 12.18.2006 AT 12:32 PM
MMMMM, yummmy. Love those peanut butter kisses!
Posted by: Barb on 12.18.2006 AT 12:01 PM
Oh, I am a believer in the flourless peanut butter cookies...I'm not even a big fan of peanut butter cookies, but those are GOOD.
Posted by: Imbrium on 12.18.2006 AT 11:54 AM
Peanut butter kiss cookies... d'you have any idea how hungry you're making me? ;-)
Posted by: Beth S. on 12.18.2006 AT 10:40 AM
Yum! A cute variation on the peanut butter cookies is to press the ball of cookie dough into a mini muffin cup with your thumb and fill the indentation with chocolate chips. I'll bet the kiss would work too.
Posted by: Paula on 12.18.2006 AT 09:43 AM
I can feel my waistband expanding already. THANKS, Sandy!
Posted by: Norma on 12.18.2006 AT 09:27 AM
YES!! The perfect breakfast.
Posted by: Karen on 12.18.2006 AT 09:04 AM
Those PB kiss cookies sound amazing and I think Eric would LOVE them - thanks for sharing the recipe! :)
Posted by: Jackie on 12.18.2006 AT 09:01 AM
With a rave like that, I'll just have to try out that peanutbutter kiss recipe. Thanks! My favorite Christmas cookie is Scotch shortbreads with a buttercream frosting and a walnut sunk into the frosting.
Posted by: Chris on 12.18.2006 AT 08:36 AM
Thanks for the peanut kisses recipe! I'm going to try it. I always make Spritz to keep up my Great-grandma's tradition and this year I may try them with cocoa. One thing I learned is to use salted butter, not unsalted. It makes a difference in the taste!
Posted by: Janet on 12.18.2006 AT 08:01 AM
Oh yes, I'll take two of each please;-)
Posted by: margene on 12.18.2006 AT 07:53 AM
We always make Spritz. Yummm! And those peanut butter blossoms sound so easy! I've got a recipe for those but I know it has flour and I think it's brown sugar, too.
Posted by: Carole on 12.18.2006 AT 07:14 AM
I admit it, I am late to this cookie party, but DAMN those peanuty cookies look GOOD and that is JUST WRONG because I am on day 4 of my diet and am really craving something (no eating after 8:00 for me) and now I WANT THOSE COOKIES.
I think I am going to go make a pot of tea....
Posted by: elisabeth on 12.29.2006 AT 09:04 PM