When was your first kiss?
If you Google “first kiss” the first link returned is a wiki about how to have a first kiss. As engaged as I am in the Internet and social media it never occurred to me that while my friends and I spent our early teen years sneaking peeks at Sex for Dummies in between giggles at Barnes & Noble, today’s high schoolers might be seeking the same information on search engines.
I didn’t have my first kiss until the day of my seventeenth birthday (some might say I was a late bloomer but I just call it “selective”). I wish I could say it was a kiss worth waiting for but it was a little awkward and nothing like I’d expected. It took a few tries before I was wholly used to the feeling of kissing, of being kissed.
Even though the first kiss is a little scary, the kisses after that are usually pretty nice.
And as cliched as this segue might be, you can never go wrong with Hershey’s Kisses.
I saw this recipe only few days before I was planning to have a few Chicago friends over for cocktails and appetizers (including, but not quite limited to: baked brie and spinach-artichoke dip) and knew it was the perfect cookie to serve at a pre-holiday gathering.
Pro Tip: When you place the candy on the cookie, the chocolate kisses will start to get melty. It’s best if you are able to place the cookie sheet (with the kiss cookies still on it) directly into the freezer or refrigerator until the kisses can cool off and set up.
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated white sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons green colored sugar (optional)
- bag of mint truffle flavored Hershey’s Kisses
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, oil, and eggs until well mixed. Whisk in extracts.
- Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients just until combined. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll dough into ½ Tablespoon balls. Roll balls into mixture of powdered sugar/green sugar. Place on cookie sheets about 1½ inches apart. Bake for 11 to 13 minutes, until cookies crackle and dough doesn’t look raw.
- While cookies are baking, unwrap the kisses and make some room in your refrigerator or freezer for the cookie sheets. When the cookies come out of the oven, immediately place a kiss in the center of each cookie and press lightly.
15 Comments
Ferrero Rocher philippines
June 8, 2010 at 12:59 amI just want to say thank you again to you blog I tried this ingredients and my kids love it so much. Now, I am looking for ward to your other post to found more ingredients you share.
vee
Ferrero Rocher philippines
March 29, 2010 at 6:06 amWow! i love chocolate thank you for sharing the ingredients i will try doing this,my kids will love this for sure. Keep posting!
vee
Paula
December 28, 2009 at 6:43 pmI was sixteen (glad to hear someone was a later bloomer than me!) and it was . . . okay i suppose. It wasn’t awful but I’ve definitely had far better since.
AND far worse!
These look absolutely AMAZING, By the way!
Amy J in SC
December 24, 2009 at 10:28 amYou crack me up and these look perfect. Chocolate and mint is a favorite.
mandy
December 22, 2009 at 11:53 pmI had my first kiss when I was 13 and I really dont remember much about it.
These cookies look awesome. I made some kiss cookies and chocolate crinkle cookies but it didnt occur to me to put the two together!
Good Taste. Healthy Me
December 22, 2009 at 10:41 pmMy first kiss was in kindergarten with a fellow classmate. It was so long ago and it was only a peck. First “legit” kiss was in 7th grade. 🙂
Jessica
December 22, 2009 at 9:08 pmFirst kiss, in front of my mom’s house after going to see Titanic. I remember kissing him and being like, “hmm that feels WEIRD.”
Please let me come over to eat some of these cookies. PLEASE.
AshleyD
December 22, 2009 at 8:35 pmHow funny! My first kiss was on my 17th birthday too! 🙂
And those cookies look delicious. I may have to try this recipe this weekend. Yum!
Kristen
December 22, 2009 at 5:11 pmYou are so cute, Maris!
My first kiss was with a guy named Mark and he kissed like what I would imagine an octopus would kiss like… not so good 🙂
Hey – can you email me your address when you get a moment? Thank you!
grace
December 22, 2009 at 3:55 pmalthough i wouldn’t necessarily prefer a candy kiss to a true kiss, i can safely say i’d prefer one to my first kiss. 🙂 these cookies are great–excellent to see and even better to eat!
Katie K
December 22, 2009 at 1:47 pmThis just got me in the mood for a mint cookie, which I happen to have at my desk! Not a kiss though. I’m good! Haha.
kate
December 22, 2009 at 9:35 amI grew up eating these chocolate-y crinkly cookies and I’m just thrilled to see them all over the internet these days. For the longest time it seemed like it was a secret to the world.
The holiday addition of a mint Kiss is awesome!! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas in your new home, Maris
Daryl Callahan
December 22, 2009 at 8:40 amthese look so good. first kiss and last kiss for a long time I was about 16 and it was someone I worked at Friendly’s with!
ANG*
December 22, 2009 at 1:48 amoh! and 3) these were fantastic my dear!
ANG*
December 22, 2009 at 1:47 am1) yay full feed in reader!!! (thank you 😉
2) first kiss was in a basement playing spin the bottle in 6th or 7th grade. man, we thought we were cool.