Peanut Butter Cookies With Hershey Kiss Chunks

We all really want a treat this afternoon. I had some peanut butter cookie dough left over in the freezer and some Hershey kisses in the pantry. In a previous life, those two ingredients formed the basis of our standard Christmas-cookie favorite - Peanut Butter Blossoms (or as they're referred to in our house, "Grandpa's Favorite Cookies").

I really didn't want to make more Peanut Butter Blossoms because I'm tired of finding peanut butter cookies with a hole in the middle all over the house. So I decided to just chop the kisses into chunks and fold that into the dough. The result was out-of-this-world deliciousness!

Peanut Butter Cookies With Hershey Kiss Chunks

• 1 cup butter or margarine
  
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 25 Hershey Kisses, quartered into chunks

1. Mix together butter or margarine, peanut butter, white sugar and brown sugar until creamy. Add eggs and mix until combined.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Stir into peanut butter mixture.
3. Fold in Hershey kiss chunks.
4. Roll about a tablespoon of dough into a ball and place on a cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned.

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