Hershey's Hugs and Kisses Cookies

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Christmas, North American

Prep Time: 25

Cook Time: 12

Total Time: 37

Servings: cookies

Calories: 210kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

A deliciously decadent half vanilla and half chocolate cookie, coated in sugar, and topped with a chocolate kiss, Hershey’s Hugs and Kiss Cookies are a perfect holiday treat that everyone will love! These are quick and easy - no need to chill the cookie dough before baking either! Don't they look absolutely adorable!?

Print Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup sanding sugar
20 Hershey's Hugs and Kisses Chocolates, unwrapped

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until well incorporated.
Next, beat in the egg yolks and vanilla extract.
Lastly, mix in the flour. Once the flour is mixed through, the mixture will still be crumbly. At this point, before mixing too much, remove half of the dough to another bowl and set aside.
Finish beating the one portion of dough until a proper cookie dough is formed. This is not an overly wet dough, so don’t be alarmed.
Next, add the cocoa powder to the portion of dough you previously separated. Beat until a chocolate dough is formed.
Divide the white dough in half and roll each half into a 12 inch log. Repeat this with the chocolate dough.
Lay one white and one chocolate log beside each other. Lay the remaining two logs on top of those but alternate the colours. (Lay the white on the chocolate and the chocolate on the white.)
Gently hold one end of the assembled log and twist the other end to form a brown and white spiraled log. Gently roll with your hands to smooth into a 20 inch log.
Cut the log into 1 inch sections.
Roll each section into a ball and roll the ball into the sanding sugar.
Place the ball onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving 2 inches of space between each one.
Bake for 12 minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately press an unwrapped Hershey’s Hugs and Kisses chocolate into the center of each cookie.
Allow cookies to cool for 3-5 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.

Nutrition