Description
Hershey Kiss Chocolate Cookies bring pure comfort straight from your kitchen, melting chocolate kisses perfectly nestled atop rich chocolate cookie bases that everyone adores.
Ingredients
Scale
Chocolate Cookies:
- 16.5 ounces refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Coating and Topping:
- 1 cup coarse sanding sugar
Chocolate Accent:
- 26 Hershey’s milk chocolate kisses
Instructions
- Blend 16.5 oz sugar cookie dough with ½ cup cocoa powder using a mixer until completely incorporated. Wrap dough and refrigerate for 60 minutes.
- Heat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop dough into uniform balls, rolling each smoothly between your palms.
- Roll each dough ball completely in 1 cup coarse sanding sugar, ensuring total coverage.
- Position cookie balls 1½ inches apart on prepared baking sheet.
- Gently press down on each cookie ball with your palm to create slight flattening.
- Bake at 350°F for 8-9 minutes, watching for puffy texture and disappearance of wet dough appearance.
- Remove sheet from oven and immediately press one Hershey’s kiss into the center of each warm cookie.
- Let cookies rest 2 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to a cooling rack for complete cooling.
Notes
- Chilling the dough helps prevent spreading and creates a more uniform cookie texture with clean edges.
- Use room temperature Hershey Kisses for easier placement and better melting into the warm cookie surface.
- For gluten-free adaptation, substitute regular sugar cookie mix with a gluten-free alternative and check ingredient compatibility.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature, separating layers with parchment paper to prevent kiss chocolates from sticking together.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8-9 minutes
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 26
- Calories: 147
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 60 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 6 mg