Christmas Kiss Cookie
These soft and sugary peanut butter cookies with a Hershey Kiss on top are the perfect and easy Christmas cookie treat for all!
Equipment
- Stand Mixer
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegetable shortening I use Crisco brand
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup white, granulated sugar
- ½ cup deocrative sugar in colors of choice
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 36 Hershey's Kisses unwrapped
Instructions
- In your stand mixer, cream together the shortening and peanut butter.
- Next, add in 1/2 cup of white sugar and all the brown sugar and mix well.
- Add in the egg, milk and vanilla and mix well.
- Sift flour, soda and salt into a seperate bowl together.
- Add the flour mixture to the mixer and mix until well blended. The dough will be very thick.
- Let the dough cool in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
- Preheat your oven to 375°.
- Roll the dough into desired size ball shape (I do mine at about 1-1.5 inches in width) and set them on a plate once rolled.
- Here is where can be creative. You can just roll the dough balls into the remaining 1/2 cup of white sugar. Or you can add colored sugar to the sugar mixture and have some colorful holiday cookies. I do a 1:1 ratio of white sugar to decorating colored sugar.
- Once you roll the dough balls in the sugar and they are coated, place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, about 2 inches apart.
- Let the cookies bake for 8 minutes in the oven, until they start to show little cracks on the top of the cookies.
- When they show small cracks, pull the sheet out of the oven, quickly press a chocolate kiss into each cookie and press down slightly into the cookie.
- Once the kisses are on the cookies, place the cookies back in the oven for one minute.
- Pull the cookies out of the oven, let them rest for 2-5 minutes and then put them on a cooling rack to let them cool off.
Notes
*** This dough gets very thick, so I prefer to mix in my stand mixer. Mixing by hand is very difficult.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 127kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 86mg | Potassium: 37mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 8IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 127kcal
Cost: $15