Midnight Kiss Cookies

By srumbel

These Midnight Kiss Cookies are the best New Year’s Eve cookie! There are a spin on everyone’s favorite peanut butter blossoms, with a chocolate cookie base and gold hershey’s kisses!
from thefirstyearblog.com

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 stick butter, soft
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 & 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Hershey’s Kisses (the hugs or cookies n’ cream ones - something light in color)
• Gold sprinkles (these are the ones I used)
• Edible gold color mist (Wilton makes a whole line of edible color mist)

Details

Cooking time 60mins

Preparation

Step 1

Unwrap about 24 hershey’s kisses and use the edible gold spray paint to spray them gold. I did 3 coats of paint on mine. Decide if you want to add gold sprinkles to some kisses. If so, I still sprayed them 3 times, just after the 3rd spray I quickly rolled each kiss in a bowl of gold sprinkles. The spray actually dries somewhat quickly, so you need to add the sprinkles as soon as you’re done spraying.

Allow the kisses to dry completely before adding them to the cookies.

Preheat the oven to 375º F.

In a mixing bowl, combine the sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Beat with an electric mixer for 1 minutes, until smooth and fluffy. Add in the peanut butter, egg, milk, and vanilla extract, beat again, less than 1 minute. Add in the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder, mixing with a spatula just until there are small flour streaks left - it’s okay if the batter has clumps! Be careful not to over mix.

Use a small cookie scoop to form 24 balls from the dough. Place the cookies on a silicone lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookies begin to crack slightly. \

Bake the cookies in batches so you don’t crowd the baking sheet.

Add a kiss to the center of each cookie as soon as they come out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool completely before serving.

Yield: 2 dozen