Those Peanut Butter Cookies with the Chocolate Kisses are the Best

Today I am coming at everyone with a steamy hot Xmas take.

First up, I love all the snacks and treats and the food that comes with the holiday. It is acceptable to gorge, you can eat as much as you want, and most people will not say a thing. Now that I have lost some weight, and I very much enjoy running, I cannot stuff my face as much as I used to. This is a good thing, but sometimes I do miss going nuts on holiday treats.

Now for the take.

The one treat I can still eat to my heart's content, that I will still stuff my face, and eat until I am sick, is the peanut butter cookies that have a Hershey's kiss in the middle. I believe they may be called thumbprint cookies. I am not one hundred percent sure if that is the name, or if it has multiple names. Whatever it may be called though, these cookies are, hands down, the best treat to have over the holiday. You all can have your eggnog or hot cocoa or fruitcake or other cookies or whatever. The thumbprint cookie destroys all other holiday snacks. They are easy to make, even easier to eat and taste better than all the other treats. I love peppermint bark, especially the Ghirardelli brand. Thumbprint cookies are better. I enjoy hot cocoa from time to time. Thumbprint cookies are better. I don't drink eggnog, but I know my wife and dad, and I believe RD himself, enjoys it. Give me a thumbprint cookie any day. Within my family and friends it is well known that I love sugar cookies, especially when you snickerdoodle them. But this time of year I prefer the thumbprint cookie. It is just so good. I also don't get to eat as much peanut butter as before, my daughter is very, very allergic to peanuts. So when I do have them, if my wife and I make them after the kids go to bed, I like them even more now. I guess I have an even deeper appreciation of this cookie, this treat. I am also not a big peanut butter cookie fan, again, I prefer sugar cookies. But this thumbprint cookie just works on so many levels.

The fact is that chocolate and peanut butter pair so well. We all love peanut butter cups, my favorite M&M's are the peanut butter ones, when I make oatmeal I like to add a little splash of chocolate to accent the peanut butter. The pairing just works. The thumbprint cookie takes it to a whole other level though. Maybe it is because the cookie is so small, and the kiss is almost as big, or that the two work so well with the chocolate kiss melting into the soft cookie or, I don't truly know, I just know that I absolutely love and adore this cookie. When I see a tray of them at my folks house, or when we could go to Xmas parties, please do not go this year, be safe, and I would see a tray of these cookies, I am always tempted to take the whole thing for myself. It just works on every level. The size of the cookie is perfect. The addition of the kiss is the cherry on top. And you can pop these things like they are going out of style. I really, truly love this cookie. I believe my wife and I are going to make some this weekend.

I am seeing my family this holiday, we have all been extremely safe and cautious and none of us have symptoms of COVID, and I am hoping someone makes them for us all to eat, even though I will eat most of them. The thumbprint cookie is, bar none, the best holiday treat. Please tell me I am wrong, and I will retort with a photo of myself enjoying the hell out of one of these cookies. It gets no better. I dare you to try and find a better holiday treat. It is impossible.

Ty

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