Double-chocolate Kiss Cookies

Description

• Makes about 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

• 36 Hershey's Kisses chocolates or Hershey's Hugs chocolates
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• ⅓ cup Hershey's cocoa
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ cup milk
• 1 can (16 oz) vanilla ready-to-spread frosting (or make your own)

Vanilla frosting

• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Remove wrappers from Hershey's Kisses chocolates.
3. Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla in large bowl until well blended.
4. Add flour, Hershey's cocoa, baking soda and salt alternately with milk, beating until well blended.
5. Cover; refrigerate dough about 1 hour or until firm enough to handle.
6. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet.
7. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set.
8. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
9. Cool completely.
10. Spread frosting onto cookies, leaving ½-inch around outer edge unfrosted.
11. Place Hershey's kisses chocolates in center of each cookie.

Vanilla frosting

1. In small bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, shortening and vanilla extract.
2. Beat until of spreading consistency.