The delicious final product / Photographer: Scarlett Coffey
The perfect sweet treat for Valentine’s Day, a spin-off of peanut butter blossoms: red velvet chocolate kisses. If you do not get any other kisses, at least you can have these.
Ingredients:
For cookies:
– 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
– 1/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
– 1 teaspoon baking soda
– 1/4 teaspoon salt
– 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
– 3/4 cup brown sugar
– 1/4 cup granulated sugar
– 1 large egg, at room temperature
– 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
– 1 Tablespoon milk
– 1/2 teaspoon gel red food coloring
– 32–36 Hershey’s Kisses, unwrapped (or other chocolates if you wish)
For coating:
– 1/3 cup granulated sugar
Instructions:
- Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium-sized bowl.
- Beat the butter and sugars until creamed together. Add the rest of the wet ingredients: egg, vanilla, milk, and food coloring and mix until combined.
- Mix the dry and wet ingredients until a dough forms. Chill dough until firm in the refrigerator, 1 hr-3 days.
- Towards the end of the chilling period, preheat your oven to 350°F, and line the baking sheets with parchment paper. Check your freezer for room, as the cookies will need to sit in there to keep the chocolate from melting.
- Roll your cookies into small balls, about 1 tbsp, then roll in the extra 1/3 cup of sugar. Place them on your baking sheets and bake for 11-13 minutes, until edges are set, the center will still look soft. Let the cookies cool for 5-10 minutes in place.
- Squish the kisses into the center of each cookie, then place the cookies in the freezer (on a different plate if you need), for 10 minutes to set.
- Take out of the freezer and serve to your loved ones with a glass of milk and a cheesy rom-com. xoxo