SunButter Blossoms
Description
**Updated 2026** – formerly Kiss Cookies, I discovered the original (using almond butter) in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine special, ‘Best-Loved Reader Recipes’, but they were a titch dry. Fast forward to finding Sally’s recipe and doing a comparison, I came up with what’s below after a couple of tries. Using Sally’s method (and more SunButter), and a pumped up flour ratio with cream of tartar (SunButter is more fluid than regular peanut butter), below is the new perfect recipe, and we’re all in love – enjoy!
Ingredients
Makes about 30, 25 gram cookies
1/2 c. (113 g) butter, softened AND 3/4 c. (185 g) SunButter, well stirred
1/4 c. (50 g) sugar AND 1/2 c. (100 g) dark brown sugar
1 t. baking soda AND 1/2 t. cream of tartar AND 1/4 t. salt
1 egg, room temperature AND 1 t. vanilla
1 3/4 c. (219 g) flour
~1/4 c. sugar for rolling the dough balls in
~30 Hershey’s kisses or hugs, unwrapped – 1 bag (180 g) is enough
Instructions
Line a couple of large baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. In your electric mixer, beat together the butter and SunButter for about 30 seconds until smooth, and then add in both sugars, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt and beat again – scrape down the sides as needed.
Add in the egg and vanilla and beat until combined, then turn the mixer to a lower speed and slowly add in all of the flour. Once the dough comes together and you’re not at risk for flour flying everywhere, increase the mixer speed and mix the dough until it’s well combined.
Roll the dough into 1-inch (25 g) balls and then roll each ball thoroughly in sugar before placing on a tray and refrigerating them for a good half hour.
When you’re ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the balls have flattened slightly and have just started to crack, then remove from the oven and leave them to rest for 5 minutes. Carefully transfer the cookies to a tray that will fit into your freezer, press a chocolate kiss into the center of each and then pop the tray into the freezer for 10 minutes so the chocolate can set.
These goodies are ready to serve straight away, but also freeze beautifully if you need to make them ahead.
- Category: Cookies, Sunbutter
