Baking Delights » kisses http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights Baking Tips and Recipes Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Triple Chocolate Mint Christmas Kisses http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/triple-chocolate-mint-christmas-kisses/ http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/triple-chocolate-mint-christmas-kisses/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:48:55 +0000 Marye Audet http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/?p=3802 Post from: Baking Delights

]]> Let me start this by just saying…Oh. Yum.  I wanted something just really chocolatey and minty…the kind of cookie you will want to have with a large, cold glass of milk or a steaming mug of coffee.

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The cookies themselves are made with Hershey’s Dark Cocoa. It is important that for this recipe you use a very rich, dark cocoa to get the level of chocolate intensity that these need. After the cookies are baked they are cooled and filled with a bittersweet ganache, sprinkled with crushed candy cane, and then topped with a Hershey’s Mint Kiss. These are a specialty kiss that I found, a traditional Hershey’s Kiss but filled with a mint truffle type filling.

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Roll the cookie in sugar.

Roll the cookie in sugar.

The result is amazingly rich, dark, and chocolatey with a fresh burst of peppermint flavor that cools your mouth and cuts through some of the chocolate.

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This are going to be a popular addition to the cookie trays or gift baskets you create this year!

Triple Chocolate Mint Christmas Kisses

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/3 cup Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa
  • 1 cup sugar or confectioner’s sugar for rolling
  • Ganache filling
  • 24 unwrapped chocolate mint Kisses
  • 2 candy canes coarsely crushed
  1. Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add egg and cream and beat well.
  2. Combine the flour, cocoa, and salt and blend into the creamed mixture
  3. Chill for at least two hours
  4. Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment or silpat
  5. Roll  teaspoons of the dough into balls, roll in confectioner’s or granulated sugar, and place on baking sheet
  6. Indent the balls with your thumb
  7. Bake 10-12 minutes
  8. Push the middles back down with your thumb and cool
  9. Add 1/2 tsp ganache to each cookie and press a kiss into it
  10. Sprinkle with ground candy canes
  11. Cool completely

Makes about 2 dozen

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]]> http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/triple-chocolate-mint-christmas-kisses/feed/ 0 And the Hershey Basket Winner for this Week… http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/and-the-hershey-basket-winner-for-this-week/ http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/and-the-hershey-basket-winner-for-this-week/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:03:07 +0000 Marye Audet http://www.bakingdelights.com/2008/11/30/and-the-hershey-basket-winner-for-this-week/ Post from: Baking Delights

]]>  hershey’s gift basket

Is the suspense killin’ ya?

Is Dani from Sweet Treats!

Congrats Dani…

And as for the rest of you? Check back on Monday for more chances to win. :)   And I DO mean more.

Hey…life’s just a big party, right?

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]]> http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/and-the-hershey-basket-winner-for-this-week/feed/ 2 Head Into the Holidays with a Hershey’s Giveaway… http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/head-into-the-holidays-with-a-hersheys-giveaway/ http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/head-into-the-holidays-with-a-hersheys-giveaway/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:05:33 +0000 Marye Audet http://www.bakingdelights.com/2008/11/14/head-into-the-holidays-with-a-hersheys-giveaway/ Post from: Baking Delights

]]> hershey’s gift basketSeriously.

A rep from Hersheys contacted me today.  It was good news.

I will be giving away a couple of these over the next few weeks….and you could be the one scarfing down all this chocolate.

Check back Monday to find out how YOU can win.  ;)

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