Peanut Butter Blossoms

I found this recipe while at college and found it fun to make itsy-bitsy cookies with chocolate chips – snack size! Make sure you put the kisses in the cookies when they are right out of the oven. If you wait, they will just pop out later. Also be sure to wait until the chocolate has re-hardened before you move the cookies around.

1 c. shortening
2/3 c. peanut butter
1 c. sugar
1 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
3¼-½c. flour
additional sugar for rolling
1 bag of Hershey kisses or chocolate chips

Pre-heat oven to 350°. Cream together shortening, peanut butter, & sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla, and then add dry ingredients. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls, and then roll balls in sugar. Bake for 8 minutes. You can also roll the dough marble-sized and then bake for 5 minutes. When they are ready, they will start to crack around the edges. Immediately after removing from the oven, push a kiss in the middle of each larger cookie and a chocolate chip in the smaller ones.