Nelson Cookie Bake Peanut Blossoms

Traditional favorite.

• Ready In: 2 hrs
• Yields: 4 Dozen Cookies

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup  Crisco
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup peanut butter
• 1  egg
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar (use 1/2 cup sugar in recipe. Reserve 1 cup sugar for rolling cookie dough balls in prior to baking.)
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
• 2  tablespoons milk
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3⁄4 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 48  Hershey chocolate kisses

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cream shortening, peanut butter, egg, 1/2 cup white sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until well mixed.
3. Mix flour, salt and baking soda together. Add gradually to creamed mixture.
4. Shape 1 teaspoon of dough into round ball for each cookie.
5. Roll balls in remaining sugar. Place on parchment lined cookie sheets.
6. Bake 6 minutes at 375 degrees.
7. Remove cookies from oven and press one Hershey Kiss in the middle of each cookie.
8. Then return cookie to oven for 1 minute.