Valentine's Day Peanut Butter Blossoms

I am not a huge fan of peanut butter. Shhh...

But my favorite guy IS! So, for Valentine's Day I decided to make a batch of peanut butter blossoms just for him!

Valentine's Day of course means hearts, so I set out looking for chocolate hearts... I could not find them ANYWHERE!! They all had some kind of filling! I finally found some plain Milka hearts, but then were large and thin. 

So, I decided to make my cookies bigger too, and double up on the chocolate hearts for a nice chocolate to cookie ratio.

They turned out super cute, and hopefully made my honey feel very loved. So now I'm sharing the recipe with you!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter at room temp.

1/2 cup sugar 

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 egg at room temperature

2 tbs milk

1 tsp vanilla

1 3/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

48 large Milka hearts

extra sugar in bowl

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl combine the ingredients in order given (except for chocolate and extra sugar).

2. Preheat oven to 375 F / 190 C. 

3. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.

4. Scoop out approx 2 tbs cookie dough, roll into ball, roll in sugar and place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart. 

3. Flatten top slightly.

4. Bake for 12 minutes, until edges slightly golden brown.

5. Remove from oven, set on heat-safe surface.

6. Gently press 2 chocolate hearts stacked on top of each other onto the cookie, until cookie slightly cracks around edges. (Do this step as soon after they come out of the oven as possible.)

7. Using a spatula transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack, and allow to fully cool. (Because you have to wait for the chocolate to fully harden back up too, it'll take a little longer than other cookies.)

Makes 24 cookies

+ If you were able to find chocolate hearts that are about the same size as chocolate kisses, or one Milka chocolate square, make your cookie balls 1 tbs size and bake for 9-10 minutes. There is also no need to flatten them down at this size. Will make approx 48 cookies.

So, happy Valentine's Day to my favorite peanut butter loving guy!  

You're simply the best!