Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies
These Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies are dark chocolate cookies with a candy cane Hershey’s kiss hiding inside!
Sister cookies to my Peanut Butter Surprise Kiss Cookies, these Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies are filled with a little extra holiday cheer, the best Christmas kiss in town – Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses!
Unsuspecting tasters will be pleasantly surprised when they are met with the sweet kiss of white chocolate and candy cane. Baked with the kiss on the inside and a sweet sugar coating on the outside they will be the talk of your next Christmas cookie exchange!
What You Will Need To Make Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies
Unsalted Butter
White Sugar
Eggs
Vanilla Extract
White Flour
Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder
Salt
Baking Sheet
Parchment Paper
TIPS FOR MAKING Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies
Ideally you will want to refrigerate the dough for about 1 hour. If you end up making the dough farther in advance, that’s ok, just take it out about 30 minutes before you want to start making the cookies so it will soften a bit.
Unwrap the kisses prior to starting to work with the dough. Your hands will be a sticky mess and it will be hard to open them as you’re working.
Use clean hands to work the dough and wrap it around the kiss. It takes a little bit of work to get the kiss fully covered inside the dough and the dough rolled into a clean ball. Just keep working it!
The recipe should make about 18 cookies, that will obviously depend on the size of your cookie balls. They are meant to be just a bit larger than the kiss to make sure it is covered and doesn’t ooze out of the cookie when baked.
Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies
- Total Time: 1 hour 45 mins
- Yield: 18 cookies 1x
Description
These Chocolate Peppermint Surprise Kiss Cookies are dark chocolate cookies with a candy cane Hershey’s kiss hiding inside!
Ingredients
12 tbsp unsalted butter (1.5 sticks), room temperature
3/4 cup white sugar, divided
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup white all-purpose flour
3/4 cup dark chocolate cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
18 Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses, unwrapped
Instructions
Add the butter to the bowl of your electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment
Beat on high until smooth
Add 1/2 cup white sugar, beat until fluffy
Add eggs 1 at a time, beat
Add vanilla extract, mix
In a medium sized bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder and salt
Slowly add the dry ingredient mixture to the mixing bowl, mix until fully combined
Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour and up to 1 day
While the dough is refrigerating take the Candy Cane Kisses out of their wrappers
Preheat the oven to 375°F
Remove the dough from the refrigerator when ready
Pour the remaining 1/4 cup white sugar into a shallow bowl
Using clean hands form the dough into equal sized balls
Work each dough ball around a candy cane kiss, making sure it is completely covered in dough
Once the kiss is fully covered, roll the dough balls until the outsides are smooth
Roll each ball in the sugar to coat
Place dough balls on parchment lined baking sheet
Bake for 12-15 minutes
Cool and enjoy
Notes
The cookies will stay fresh covered at room temperature up to 3 days, in the refrigerator up to 1 week and in the freezer up to 3 months.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Cook Time: 15 min.
- Category: cookies
Keywords: #christmascookies, #chocolatecookies, #surprisekiss, #hersheykiss
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