Cocoa Mac Kiss Cookies
With family roots in Hawaii I’m always on the lookout for new food items from the islands. So I was excited when my MIL came to visit and she brought me a bag of Hershey’s MACADAMIA NUT Kisses!! Heaven!
Wonderful on their own, I knew they’d be even better in a cookie! Nestled in the middle of a chocolate cookie and rolled in powdered sugar, these little cookies are the next best thing to a visit to the islands!
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
pinch of salt
2 sticks (1 cup) butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
About 40 Hershey’s Macadamia Nut Kisses
Powdered sugar
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep baking sheets with silpats.
In a bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and the vanilla until combined.
Add in the flour mixture until the dough is formed.
Take a tablespoon of dough roll it into a ball, flatten the ball and place an unwrapped kiss inside. Pull the dough up around the kiss, covering it completely. Roll into a ball again and place on the prepped cookie sheet.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, let cool on a wire rack.
Once cooled, roll in powdered sugar just before serving.
I love that you put “UNWRAPPED” in there at all, let alone capital letters. You just KNOW somebody would ask that, huh? 🙂
I know you speak openly of your love for Valrhona – do you use it whenever and wherever a recipe calls for cocoa powder, whether it be unsweetened OR Dutch process? Valrhona is Dutch process, isn’t it? Or am I being too picky (you can tell me)? 🙂
Oh, and this recipe looks YUMMY.