CINNAMON PEANUT BLOSSOMS WITH CHOCOLATE STARS

Cinnamon Peanut Blossoms with Chocolate Stars image

Provided by Kelly Williams @WildfloursCottageKitchen

Categories Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 14

1/2 cup - butter-flavored crisco
3/4 cup - creamy peter pan peanut butter
1/3 cup - sugar
1/3 cup - packed dark brown sugar
1/2 tsp. - cinnamon
1 - large egg
2 Tbl. - milk
2 tsp. - vanilla
1 1/2 cups - flour
1 tsp. - baking soda
1/2 tsp. - salt
1 cup - sugar
1 Tbl. - cinnamon
48 - brach's chocolate stars

Steps:

Preheat oven to 375°F. Beat shortening and peanut butter in large bowl until well blended. Add sugar, cinnamon and dark brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter mixture. Shape dough into 1" balls. Roll in sugar and cinnamon mixed (last 2 ingredients before chocolate stars); place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a chocolate star into center of each cookie; cookie will crack around edges. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. About 4 dozen cookies. Store airtight.
Tip: While cookies are baking, I spread out the chocolate stars onto a parchment paper-lined plate and microwave them for a few seconds. DO NOT MELT them, just warm them a TINY bit to return them to a nice glossy chocolate again. While in the bag, they get beat up, chipped and scratched and look like they have a white dust on them. Nuking them returns them to a beautiful chocolate again. If you heat them too much, don't worry, they reharden. Just don't try to add them to a cookie if they are soft.