Valentine’s Peanut Butter Heart Thumbprint Cookies
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For Valentine’s Day, whip up a batch of these Valentine Peanut Butter Heart Thumbprint Cookies and share some shortbread cookie and chocolate peanut butter deliciousness with your loved ones. This easy recipe makes 20 beautiful heart cookies, but you can easily double it for more!
Valentine’s day is all about love and what better way to show someone that you love them than baking a sweet treat for them?
These soft, buttery cookies with a heart-shaped peanut butter cup center are a perfect way to celebrate the people you love.
I love the combination of the buttery shortbread cookies and those little chocolate hearts are precious!
Why you’ll love these Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Super soft and buttery cookies everyone will love
Heart-shaped candies fit the theme perfectly
Easy to customize with other heart-shaped candies to change up the flavor
Great option for bake sales, class parties, and more
Ingredients
Butter
Powdered sugar
Flour
Cornstarch
Salt
Vanilla
Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts or Hershey’s Kisses
How to Make Peanut Butter Heart Cookies
In the bowl of an electric mixer with a paddle attachment cream together 2 sticks of butter and sugar.
In a separate bowl sift together flour and cornstarch.
Add salt and stir.
Add the dry ingredients and the vanilla to the bowl and mix on high speed until combined, if mixture seems crumbly add extra tablespoons of butter.
Form dough into a ball and wrap with plastic, then refrigerate for minimum 20 minutes or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325, line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Form dough into balls and place on baking sheet 1 inch apart.
Use either your thumb or a glass to flatten cookie. Bake cookie for 15-20 minuets or until golden around the edges. I recommend checking after 10 minutes and then keeping an eye on them.
Remove cookies from oven and let sit for one minute.
Then place an unwrapped peanut butter heart or kiss in the center.
Cool and enjoy.
Note: I was not paying attention and my cookies browned more than I wanted around the edges.
Tips & Variations
Change the center candy. Swap out the centers for peppermint kisses, dark chocolate kisses, Reese’s white creme peanut butter hearts or your favorite.
Try other fillings. Instead of candy, fill the centers with raspberry jam, caramel, or dark chocolate ganache.
Storage
These cookies can be stored covered in a cool place for up to 5 days.
For Valentine's Day, whip up a batch of these Valentine Peanut Butter Heart Thumbprint Cookies and share some shortbread cookie and chocolate peanut butter deliciousness with your loved ones. This easy recipe makes 20 beautiful heart cookies, but you can easily double it for more!
In the bowl of an electric mixer with a paddle attachment cream together 2 sticks of butter and sugar.
In a separate bowl sift together flour and cornstarch.
Add salt and stir.
Add the dry ingredients and the vanilla to the bowl and mix on high speed until combined, if mixture seems crumbly add extra tablespoons of butter.
Form dough into a ball and wrap with plastic, then refrigerate for minimum 20 minutes or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325, line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Form dough into balls and place on baking sheet 1 inch apart.
Use either your thumb or a glass to flatten cookie. Bake cookie for 15-20 minuets or until golden around the edges. I recommend checking after 10 minutes and then keeping an eye on them.
Remove cookies from oven and let sit for one minute.
Notes
Note:I recommend checking after 10 minutes and then keeping an eye on them. I was not paying attention and my cookies browned more than I wanted around the edges.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: peanut butter heart cookies, peanut butter thumbprint cookies, reese’s heart cookies, valentine’s day peanut butter cookies
I was hoping that you would post a recipe for Valentine's day. I wish I could get to a store today to get the heart shaped peanut butter cups, but we are snowed/iced in our homes.
I was hoping that you would post a recipe for Valentine's day. I wish I could get to a store today to get the heart shaped peanut butter cups, but we are snowed/iced in our homes.
They look so good.
I made them today. It s a beautiful and yummy cookie. Thank you for the recipe.