Description
These chocolate peppermint blossoms are full of that classic peppermint mocha flavour everyone loves having during the holidays.
Ingredients
- Flour (1 & 1/4 Cups)
- Baking Soda (1 Teaspoon)
- Cocoa Powder (1/2 Cup)
- Salt (1/4 Teaspoon)
- Butter, at Room Temperature (1/2 Cup)
- Brown Sugar (1/2 Cup)
- Granulated Sugar (1/2 Cup)
- Egg (1)
- Vanilla (1 Teaspoon)
- Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses (26 For Topping Cookies, 8 Roughly Chopped)
- Extra Granulated Sugar, For Rolling Cookies (3 Tablespoons)
Instructions
- Prepare: Preheat oven to 350° F. Line 1 or 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside. Unwrap the Hershey Kisses and roughly chop 8 of them. Set aside away from the oven to avoid melting.
- Mix: In a medium-sized bowl, combine and mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. Cream the butter, granulated, and brown sugar in a separate medium-sized bowl and then add the egg and vanilla extract.
- Combine: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients until fully combined and the texture is thick. Fold in the chopped Hershey Kisses.
- Shape the cookies: Roll the cookie dough into 1 tablespoon-sized balls, roll in the granulated sugar, and place them on a baking sheet at least 1.5 inches apart.
- Bake: Bake for 7-9 minutes. Once removed from the oven, allow the cookies to sit for 1 minute before pressing a Hershey Kiss on top of the cookie.
- Cool: Move to a cookie rack to completely cool.
Notes
Use softened butter. For this recipe, you need to cream together the butter and sugars for the cookie dough batter, and the only way to do this is if your butter is at room temperature. If it's too cold or if its melts, you won’t be able to cream it. If you forgot to pull your butter out, no worries! Just microwave it for 10-15 seconds until it becomes slightly soft.
Wait 1 minute before adding the Hershey Kiss on the cookie. This 1 minute is SO important because if you place the Hershey Kiss on the cookie too soon it will completely melt into a sad blob (I know from experience…) and if you place it too late it won’t stick!
Move your cookies to a cooling rack. Try to do this a couple of minutes after placing your Hershey Kiss, this will also help keep the chocolate from melting into a blob.
Don’t roll all the cookies in sugar. This is a preference thing! Some people aren’t as fond of extra sugar on the outside, so I always roll half in sugar and the other half I leave plain and both versions taste amazing!
Nutrition facts are estimates only.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: cookies, Dessert, holiday
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American