Grinch Themed Peanut Butter Blossoms

 I saw these cute cookies in a Facebook group I'm part of that turned Peanut Butter Blossoms into a cute green Grinch themed cookie with a little red heart. I had never heard of or tried these cookies before, but I thought "Why not?" and gave it a go.  They were creamy and tasty, but next time I will need to make them smaller.  My cookies were way too big and didn't look cute so much as a female body part! 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1-1/4 cup flour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• additional granulated sugar
• Hershey's kisses, unwrapped (about 35-40 of them)
• Green food colouring
• Red cookie icing (for the hearts)

Directions:

1. In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.  Set aside.
2. In a large bowl cream together peanut butter, butter and both sugars.  Once it is light and fluffy beat in the egg, milk and vanilla.  At this point I add in a few drops of green food colouring if I am turning them into Grinch cookies
3. Add in the dry ingredients and combine.  Add in more green food colouring until the desired green is achieved,
4. Heat oven to 375F.  Shape dough into 1-inc balls and roll in additional granulated sugar.  Place on ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. 
5. Bake 10-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly brown and the cookie begins to crack.
6. Press 1 unwrapped Hershey Kiss in the center of each cookie.  Remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack.
7. When cookies are completely cooled, draw a little red heart on each cookie using the red cookie icing. (I used the Betty Crocker brand.)

"Un-Spritzed" Cookies

 This cookie is called "un-spritzed" because it takes the dough of a spritzer cookie and instead of pushing it through the cookie press, you simply roll and stamp or flatten with a fork.  It saves a little time and they look really pretty if you have nice cookie stamps!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2-1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• dash salt
• 1 tsp almond extract

Directions:

1. Cream butter until light and fluffy; add sugar. 
2. Add egg, unbeaten; beat well.
3. Add dry ingredients and extract.
4. Roll in balls and and place 1 inch apart on cookie sheet. Press down with stamp or fork.
5. Put some coloured sugar or sprinkles on them.
6. Bake in preheated 350F oven for 9-12 minutes until the bottoms just start to brown.
7. Cool for a few minutes on tray before transferring to cooling rack.

   

   The cookies before they are sprinkled and baked.