Hershey Kiss Cookies: Holiday Red Velvet Peppermint

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa powder, unsweetened
  • 1 tbsp Food coloring, red
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 Sugar crystals, red
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 1 tsp Buttermilk

• Desserts

  • 36 Hershey's peppermint kisses

• Other

  • 1 1/2 cups And 2 tablespoons flour

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Description

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
• Set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, blend together butter and sugar until mixture is well blended -- about 3 minutes.
• Mix in egg.
• Add in food coloring, buttermilk, and vanilla extract.
• Mix on low until well blended.
• Leave mixer on low speed and slowly add in the flour mixture.
• Mix until combined.
• Chill for 30 minutes or more.
• While the dough is chilling unwrap the kisses and set them nearby.
• Roll 1 rounded tablespoon of the dough into a ball.
• Roll the ball in the red sugar crystals and place on a baking sheet lined with Silpat.
• Bake in about 8 to 10 minutes.
• Remove from the oven.
• Allow the cookies to firm up for a few seconds.
• Lightly press 1 peppermint kiss into the center of each cookie.
• Allow Kisses to set or put in the fridge for the chocolate to firm up before storing or serving.
• Store in an airtight container.