Tasty Tuesday

This Christmas, I made care packages for my family.  One of the cookie recipes I used was from Pinterest. I loved how they turned out ~ deeply chocolate, subtly minty, soft, chewy ~ just slightly crisp.  In short, it was cookie heaven!  Give these Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms a try.  You won't be disappointed! Enjoy!

Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 stick softened, room temperature butter

1-1/4 cup granulated sugar

3 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon peppermint extract

1/2 cup powdered sugar

Hershey's kisses, unwrapped

Preparation Instructions:

Oven: 350*

Whisk dry ingredients together in a large bowl.  In another large bowl, cream the butter until lightly mixed and add in the sugar.  Beat with mixer until creamy.  Add in eggs, one at a time, until fully incorporated.  Add in vanilla & peppermint extract.  Add in dry ingredients. (Dough will be very sticky!)

Chill mixture for at least 30 minutes.  Roll into balls.  Put powdered sugar on a plate and coat the dough balls.  Place on parchment-lined cookie sheets and bake for 12 minutes.

Once removed from the oven, place a Hershey's kiss in the middle of each cookie.  

* I used the holiday Kisses that were red & white ~ very cute!

** I'm also going to try to make these cookies w/o the peppermint and make the insides salted caramel.