Hershey Mint Kiss Cookie Cups– these cute little cookie cups are loaded with chocolate mint flavor, and look so pretty. Perfect for Christmas!
Baking Christmas cookies is one of my favorite things this time of year. We have a few favorites, but I also like coming up with new recipes every year. I think peppermint just screams Christmas, so every year I bake at least one cookie recipe that involves peppermint. And chocolate of course!
This year I wanted to come up with a way to use the Hershey’s kisses that only come out for the holiday season. The mint truffle kisses are my favorite! I buy several bags and freeze them so I can enjoy them all year long. Do any of you do that with your favorite candy? Welcome to the hoarders club. 🙂 Anywho, back to the cookie recipe. I experimented a few times with the cookie dough recipe, and finally found a winner. These taste amazing, and they look so pretty on a cookie tray. I made some of each.
The ones with the candy cane Hershey kisses are the prettiest, but I of course like the mint truffle variety the best. You can use whichever ones you want. Or of course you can use regular kisses instead if that floats your boat. These were gobbled up in minutes, and I was lucky to get a photo of the last five left!
More chocolate mint cookies:
Hershey Mint Kiss Cookie Cups
Hershey Mint Kiss Cookie Cups
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter melted and cooled
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 2 ½ cups flour
- ⅔ cup cocoa
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 48 mint Hershey kisses you can use the candy cane or mint truffle variety
Instructions
- Beat together butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl.
- Combine flour, cocoa, soda, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Stir into creamed mixture.
- Chill for an hour to make dough easier to handle. Roll in small balls and place in greased mini muffin pans.
- Bake at 350° for about 8 minutes. Immediately place an unwrapped Hershey kiss in the middle of each cookie.
Notes
Nutrition
The baking time was way too long! I even used a light colored mini muffin tin. I would say next time check the cookies between 13-15 minutes and go from there!
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I only baked mine for 8 minutes.
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How many cookies does this recipe make?
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It should make at least 4 dozen.
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Hello, these look awesome and I would like to make them. Can you please tell me if the baking soda measurement is 1/2 of a teaspoon or tablespoon? Thank you!
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I use tsp. as an abbreviation for teaspoon, and Tbsp. as an abbreviation for tablespoon. Sorry for the confusion.
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Made these yesterday and they are yummy, how do you keep the candy cane kisses from melting down, the chocolate ones stayed nice.
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Hmmm, I’m not exactly sure why they melted down. I did notice with mine that if I tried to remove them too early, the kisses would fall, but if I didn’t bump the pan till they were cool, they were fine.
One thing you could try is not adding the peppermint kisses till the cookies have cooled down a bit. Let me know if that works!
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I just made these tonight for a party tomorrow. I haven’t tasted them yet, but I’m super excited! Thanks for the recipe!
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These were a big hit!!! I’ve already been asked for the recipe several times–thanks again!
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I just bought hershey kisses so now I must make these.
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Nice!!
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