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Pile of Hidden Kiss Cookies
Prep: 1 hour 20 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Total: 1 hour 30 minutes

Hidden Kiss Cookies

A big bite of chocolate hidden inside a melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookie, all rolled in powdered sugar. These delicious kiss cookies belong on every holiday cookie platter!
Yield: 30 cookies

Ingredients

For the cookie dough

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened/room temp
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup very finely chopped walnuts 4 ounces; 1 heaping cup of walnuts comes to about 1 cup ground
  • 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 215 grams

For inside the cookies

  • 30 Hershey's kisses unwrapped; about 3/4 of a 10.2 ounce package

For dusting the baked cookies

  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

Mix dough & chill

  • Add the butter to the bowl of a stand mixer affixed with a beater blade or in a large bowl and use a hand mixer. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and beat for another 20 seconds or so until well-distributed.
  • Mix in the walnuts on low speed, then add the flour and beat on low just until incorporated.
  • Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for an hour.

Bake

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Pull the dough out of the fridge and use a tablespoon-sized measuring spoon or cookie scoop to pull out tablespoon of dough, then roll it around each kiss. I like to smoosh the dough just a bit in my palm, stick the kiss in point first, then wrap it around. Or you can press the cookie dough slightly flat, set the kiss on, and wrap it around the top (it's a little easier to make sure the kiss stays right-side-up this way). You have to smoosh it a little to hide the kiss completely. (I keep using the word "smoosh," but it's very appropriate here!)
  • Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart. Bake for 10-11 minutes, just until set and the bottoms are lightly golden brown.

Cool & dust with powdered sugar

  • Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about five minutes.
  • Add the powdered sugar to a bowl. Gently roll in/dust with powdered sugar and place cookies on a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

Cook time includes 1 hour chilling.
Freezer note: These freeze well, so feel free to make them now then save 'em until the big day.

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 150kcal, Carbohydrates: 14g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.2g, Cholesterol: 17mg, Sodium: 5mg, Potassium: 27mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 8g, Vitamin A: 190IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 16mg, Iron: 0.5mg