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Peanut Butter Cookies with Hershey Kisses

By Annie 'Nannie' (Leusch) Sundy·Originally from Aunt Laura's 2003 cookbook

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup Shortening
  • 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
  • 1 Egg
  • 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
  • 1 and 1/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • Hershey Kisses

Method

  1. In a mixer, cream the shortening, sugars and peanut butter.
  2. Add the egg and mix in.
  3. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.
  4. Add slowly to the creamed ingredients.
  5. Chill at least 3 hours.
  6. Make 3/4 inch balls, setting them on an un-greased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
  7. Jam the unwrapped Hershey kiss down on each ball, flattening cookie to about 1/4 inch.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
  9. When they come out of the oven, immediately sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of granulated sugar.

Family note

Your Mom is known for these cookies at Christmas. Tim would die if she didn't make them!