Cake Mix Peanut Butter Blossoms made with a cake mix, peanut butter and a Hershey kiss right in the middle. The easiest way to make Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies!
My favorite cookies have peanut butter and chocolate in them. I’ve always loved Peanut Butter Blossoms, but just recently figured out I could make them a cake mix which makes them even easier to make than normal. You only need a few ingredients to make these delicious cookies and no one will ever even know that you cheated a little bit!
Ingredients in Cake Mix Peanut Butter Blossoms
1/4 cup sugar
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1 egg
24 Hershey kisses, unwrapped
How to make Cake Mix Peanut Butter Blossoms
Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare a cookie sheet by lining with a silicone mat or parchment paper or lightly greasing it with non-stick cooking spray.
Place sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, add the cake mix, peanut butter, butter and egg and mix with an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes or until well blended. Scoop the dough with a cookie scoop and roll into 1″ balls. Roll each dough ball in the sugar and place on the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Press one Hershey kiss into the center of each ball, barely flattening the dough.
Bake for 10 minutes or until edges barely begin to brown. Cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
HOW DO YOU MAKE PERFECT PEANUT BUTTER BLOSSOMS?
Making Cake Mix Peanut Butter Blossom cookies is easy! Here are a few tips to getting perfect cookies every time!
- Make sure you use softened butter – DON’T melt it! One of the most common errors in cookie making is using butter that is either really cold and hard, or using butter that is too warm and melted. If you have time, just leave butter out on the counter for about 1-2 hours before making your cookies. If you are like me and don’t plan your cookie cravings that far in advance, just place the butter in your microwave and soften in 5 second intervals, being very careful to pull it out before it melts. I actually like to use the defrost setting on my microwave to soften butter- I don’t know the technical reasons behind it, but it seems to soften the butter more evenly and takes a little bit longer so I’m less likely to start melting it!
- Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
- Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
- Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
- Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!
IF YOU ENJOYED THESE PEANUT BUTTER BLOSSOM COOKIES, HERE ARE A FEW MORE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPES YOU’LL ENJOY:
IF YOU ENJOYED THESE PEANUT BUTTER BLOSSOM COOKIES, HERE ARE A FEW MORE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPES YOU’LL ENJOY:- Best Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
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- Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
- Tagalong Cookie Bars
Cake Mix Peanut Butter Blossoms made with a cake mix, peanut butter and a Hershey kiss right in the middle. The easiest way to make Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies!
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Kathleen Hastings says
What do you do with the egg?
Nellie says
Sorry, I just added that in! Just add it in with all of the other ingredients and mix together.
Carol says
What about the egg, when do you put it in.
Nellie says
Sorry, I just added that in! Just add it in with all of the other ingredients and mix together.
Rhonda Marsh says
Do you bake the cookie with the kiss all ready on the cookie or press it in after baking?
Kaylie says
Press it in after baking. Enjoy!
Sandra L Priestly says
I thought I had missed something in the recipe and went back to read a second time as the dough was so dry and it took almost 10 minutes to incorporate and I finished off kneading it and not using my mixer. The cookies are ok, but think the next time I make will go back to my full ingredient recipe and not use the cake mix. I had very soft butter as it had been left out all night and good peanut butter. If I ever make again will probably add another egg to the mixture.
Jill says
This was so dry – I had to add some water because I had a bowl full of crumbly peanut butter flavored cake mix. Every ball of sough required lots of kneading. Maybe amend the recipe to use oil instead of butter, or add some water? They taste good, but the recipe as written just doesn’t come together to form the dough needed to make the cookies.
Molly Saunders says
Peanut blossoms cookies were a winner in the Pillsbury bake off contest in 1957, the year I was born. We are both 66 years old!