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Plate of Hershey Kiss Chocolate Cookies, with a bite taken out of one.
5 from 47 votes
Created by: Stefanie

Hershey Kiss Chocolate Cookies


Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 19 minutes
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Hershey Kiss Chocolate Cookies are rich and flavorful cookies made with chocolate, cookie dough, coarse sanding sugar, and milk chocolate Kisses. They're stunning and delicious!
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Ingredients

  • 16.5 oz refrigerated sugar cookie dough
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup coarse sanding sugar
  • 26 Hershey’s milk chocolate kisses

Instructions

  • In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer or standing mixer to thoroughly mix the sugar cookie dough and the cocoa powder.
  • Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for about one hour.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Use a cookie scoop to form even balls of dough. Roll the balls in the palm of your hands to form a smooth cookie.
  • Roll each cookie dough ball in a shallow bowl filled with the coarse sugar until completely coated.
  • Place the balls 1 ½ inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Flatten the top of the cookies just a bit with the palm of your hand to help them spread evenly.
  • Bake for 8-9 minutes or until the cookies are puffy and the dough no longer looks wet.
  • Remove cookie sheet from the oven. Press a chocolate kiss gently into the top of each warm cookie and allow cookies to cool for a couple minutes before carefully transferring to a cooling rack to cool the rest of the way.

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Notes

  • Be careful not to flatten your cookie dough too much when using the palm of your hand. While you need an indentation in the middle of the cookies for placing your chocolate kisses, you don’t want your cookies spreading too much. 
  • I use parchment paper to line the baking tray but you could also use a silicone baking mat. The parchment paper or silicone baking mat is a great way to prevent your cookies from spreading instead of using a greased tray that will be absorbed by the cookie dough while baking and cause the cookies to spread. 
  • You’ll want to press your chocolate kisses into each baked cookie fairly soon after the cookies have been removed from the oven and while they are still warm enough to be pressed into.

Nutrition

Calories: 134kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 57mg | Potassium: 52mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 7IU | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1mg

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