Double Peanut Butter Easter Blossoms

I’m a huge fan of peanut butter and chocolate. My husband brings home Reese’s peanut butter cups, every year for me on our anniversary, he gets me! But I’ve never been a big fan of peanut butter cookies. I live in the camp where cookies should always be soft and more often than not, peanut butter cookies just aren’t. So, I set out on a mission to find a recipe for soft and chewy cookies that I could use in these Double Peanut Butter Easter Blossoms.

And not to toot my own horn, but I nailed it! These cookies are undeniably one of the best peanut butter cookies I HAVE EVER HAD! Not only are these cookies unreal, so perfectly soft, chewy and insane all by themselves. But we’re not going to stop there. No, we’re going up the ante and turn these into blossoms.

A traditional blossom is a peanut butter cookie, with a Hershey’s kiss in the middle, but that’s not enough for us. My fellow peanut butter lovers unite! We’re swapping out the kiss for Reese’s peanut butter eggs. The chocolates that show up around Easter. It adds a ton of extra peanut butter flavour with just the right amount of chocolate and it’s heavenly!

How to make Double Peanut Butter Easter Blossoms

I made these cookies with both versions of the Reese’s peanut butter chocolate eggs that are out right now. The dome-shaped eggs, the ones wrapped in colourful foil, look pretty on the cookies. But the regular peanut butter eggs, the ones that you can buy in a three-pack (think the Christmas tree versions that show up in December) are a better fit. These cookies are fairly large, so the larger eggs feel a little more balanced. And frankly, I’m all about the extra peanut butter.

So, let’s get you set up to make your own batch. In a big bowl cream together the butter and sugars. Add in the eggs, vanilla and peanut butter. Sift in the flour, baking soda and salt and mix until combined. The dough will be soft, but it makes for the most delicious cookies. Roll them into 1″ balls, don’t worry if they’re not perfect, just roll them in the extra sugar and then bake them for about 11 minutes.

Once they’re just slightly brown pull them from the oven and immediately press the chocolate covered peanut butter eggs into the centre of the cookies. Let these cool completely on a cooling rack. I say that, but we totally snuck a few hot ones, cause fresh-from-the-oven cookies are the best! Pro-tip: unwrap the chocolate covered peanut butter eggs before you bake the cookies, you want to get those chocolate eggs nestled into the cookies right away, so they melt together a bit.

These blossoms are next-level good. The cookies themselves have the perfect amount of peanut butter and are chewy, yet melt in your mouth all at the same time. Top them with the peanut butter eggs and they’re out of this world good. Up until this point, if someone asked me what my favourite cookies are, I would say Chocolate Chip or Grandma’s Soft Gingersnaps, but today, there’s a third treat that’s risen to the top and I’m sure you’ll agree.

If you love Double Peanut Butter Easter Blossoms, check out these other delicious peanut butter recipes, I’m sure they’ll hit the spot:

• Butterscotch Layered Rice Krispie Squares
• Peanut Butter Poke Cake
• Sweet and Savoury Fully Loaded Breakfast Sandwich

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