Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• kisses (unwrapped)

• Mix butter (or margarine), peanut butter, sugars and egg thoroughtly.
• Blend all dry ingredients; stir into butter mixture.
• Chill dough
• Heat oven to 375ºF
• Roll dough into balls
• Bake on a lightly greased baking sheet
• Cook 8-9 minutes, place kisses into center of cookies
• Bake an additional 2 minutes (bottoms should be very lightly browned to have a soft* cookie)

*Our feeling is that good cookies are soft cookies. That means you have to stop about a minute before the recipe says - which is about a minute before it looks done. With the caveat that raw cookie dough, while sometimes tasty, can give you a stomachache ... which I know from experience.