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Chocolate Chip Peanut Blossoms

2 Cups Flour
1 Egg
2 Tablespoon Baking Soda
2 Tablespoon Baking powder
4 Tablespoon Milk
1/2 teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cup Butter Flavor Crisco
2 Cups Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Cups Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
1 23oz Bag Chocolate chips
Hershey Kisses Opened

Heat oven to 375. 1.Remove all the wrappers from the Hershey Kisses and then put them aside in a cool place. 2.In large bowl beat Peanut Butter and Crisco until well blended. 3.Add Brown Sugar and Sugar beat until well blended. 4.Add egg,milk and vanilla beat until well blended. 5.In another bowl mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt mix well. 6.Gradually beat into the peanut mixture makesure well blended. 7. Taste the dough to see if you need to add any more peanut butter and sugar. I always do. Do not be scared to add more because you can never add to much. If the dough gets to dry all you do is add some more milk a little at a time if needed you can add 1 more egg I always do both. 8.Stir in Chocolate chips best to mix with your hands. 9.Shape dough into balls using only one hand because you do not want a perfect round ball. Make it almost as big as a meatball. 10.Roll each ball in sugar. Place on cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 8 min. 11.Press down in the center of each cookie Immediately with Hereshy's kissess. Cookie will sometimes crack around the edges. 12.Remove from cookie sheet to stop the baking.

I always loved to bake it did not matter if I was baking a cake, pies or cookies. Once I had my daughters I started to bake with them. I called it our special time together. Everyone always said I should go into business for myself. I felt it was more important to spend the time with them. I never needed a special reason to bake. One of the most important reasons the Chocolate chip Peanut Blossoms cookies are so special to me has to with my daughter Ashley. On day she was about three when she was helping me make peanut butter blossoms, she thought we were making chocolate chip cookies. Ashley helped me come up with a new cookie. Everyone that I have mad them for loves them and cannot get enough of them. I have changed the recipe to make it mine. This is what makes my cookies so special to my daughter and me.