Red Velvet Peanut Butter Blossoms

This Red Velvet Peanut Butter Blossoms recipe a holiday and Valentines Day favorite is soft and chewy peanut butter cookies with a Hersheys kiss in the center made with red food coloring for a festive touch. I also have a Classic Peanut Butter Blossom Recipe you will love!
Ingredients Substitutions
Butter I prefer unsalted butter in this recipe as well as in many of my baked goods. It allows you the baker to control the amount of salt needed for the recipe. If using salted butter omit the pinch of kosher salt in the dough.
Peanut Butter Both creamy and chunky peanut butter would work in this recipe. The chunky peanut butter will add more texture to the cookies.
Food Coloring Start with one teaspoon of red gel food coloring which is more vibrant than liquid food color. No matter which variety you use you can always add more until you get the shade of red you are going for.
Sanding Sugar Sanding sugar is a type of decorative sugar utilized in baking to add sparkle and texture to desserts. It is coarser and larger than regular granulated sugar making it a popular ingredient for decorating cakes cookies and pastries. If you dont have sanding sugar you could use any coarse sugar or colored decorating sugar. Granulated sugar would also work in a pinch.
Hersheys Kisses The traditional peanut butter blossoms are topped with Hersheys chocolate kisses. However if you dont have any on hand add a few chocolate chips to the tops of the cookies or miniature peanut butter cups. Rolos with their soft chewy caramel center is another delicious choice.
Why are my Red Velvet Peanut Butter Blossoms Flat?
A flat cookie could be the result of the butter being too warm. To avoid this you can try adding cold butter to your stand mixer and