Peppermint Kiss Cookies
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Peppermint Kiss Cookies
Description
The cookie dough is made by creaming room-temperature butter and sugar until smooth, then mixing in egg and vanilla. Dry ingredients including flour, baking soda, and salt are whisked separately and added alternately with milk to form a soft dough. The dough is shaped into one-inch balls and rolled in extra sugar to create a slight crunch on the outside once baked.
Baking at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 12 minutes allows the cookies to set firmly around the edges while remaining soft in the center. After a brief cooling, each cookie is topped by pressing an unwrapped peppermint candy kiss into the middle, which softens slightly and adheres to the cookie as it cools completely on a wire rack.
These cookies combine classic sugar cookie flavors with the cool peppermint and chocolate of the candy kiss. They make a seasonal dessert or holiday treat that stores well and can be enjoyed any time the peppermint flavor is desired.
Ingredients
- 36 hershey kisses (Candy Cane)
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature, unsalted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons milk
- sugar extra, for rolling dough
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 °F.
- Remove all of the wrappers from kisses, and set aside.
- Using a hand or stand mixer, cream together the room temperature butter and sugar. Add in the egg and vanilla extract. Mix until well blended.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture, alternately with the milk, to the butter mixture, mixing until fully combined.
- Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Shape the cookie dough into 1 inch balls and then roll the balls in the extra sugar. Place the balls on the cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until edges of the cookies are lightly browned. Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool for 3 minutes.
- Press a candy kiss into the middle of the cookies.
- Let cool completely on a wire rack.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 36cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 94 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 36 | |
| Calories | 94kcal | 5% |
| Carbohydrates | 14g | 5% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 4g | 6% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.1g | 1% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Trans Fat | 0.1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 13mg | 4% |
| Sodium | 38mg | 2% |
| Potassium | 11mg | 0% |
| Fiber | 0.3g | 1% |
| Sugar | 8g | 16% |
| Vitamin A | 87IU | 2% |
| Calcium | 13mg | 1% |
| Iron | 0.4mg | 2% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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