Red Velvet Peanut Butter Blossoms

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick or 113g) butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp. milk
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. red gel food coloring
• 3 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• pinch salt
• 1/4 cup red sanding sugar
• 1 bag Hershey's Kisses (unwrapped)

Instructions

• Heat kitchen appliance to 375°F.

• Beat butter, paste, and sugar in a very stand mixer for concerning two minutes on medium speed. flip mixer to low and add in egg, milk, vanilla, and red colouring. combine for concerning thirty seconds to include, then flip mixer to medium-high and mix till light-weight and soft.

• in a very separate bowl sift cocoa, flour, hydrogen carbonate and salt. With mixer on slow add flour mixture to sugar mixture and beat till simply combined.

• take away mixer bowl from stand. form dough into one in. balls. attack a parchment lined baking sheet.

• Pour red sanding sugar onto little plate or bowl.

• Roll dough ball in red sanding sugar and place on ready cooking utensil concerning two inches apart.

• Bake for eight to ten minutes.

• whereas baking uncover Hershey's Kisses. Once cookies area unit done baking, take away from kitchen appliance and directly press a kiss into the middle of every cookie. The cookie ought to crack around edges.

• enable cookies to cool down to temperature.