#26. Golden Kiss Surprises

Guys, I PROMISE more exciting recipes are coming but I need to make at least a small dent in my insane supply of Hershey's Kisses. In addition to the gigundo jar (a picture of which I included in my last post), I also have these puppies.

Sadly, the wrapper does not reflect any sort of wonderful mottled chocolate because then I would use them front and center in some sort of PRIDE treat. Instead, I will hide them in "surprise" cookies with some exterior gilding for flair. 

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (softened)

• 1/2 cup white sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 2 1/4 cups white flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 twelve-ounce bag of Hershey Kisses 

• 1 jar gold sprinkles (5 oz or so)

Directions

1. Using a hand-held mixer, cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth.

2. In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking soda thoroughly.

3. Add dry goods mixtures gradually to wet ingredients, beating on medium speed until thoroughly combined.  (If your mixture seems too dry/granulated, ditch the beaters and use your hands to massage butter into mixture to form soft dough.)

4. Refrigerate dough at least 2 hours.

5. Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit. Remove dough from fridge and shape around unwrapped (duh) Kisses to form spheres.

6. Roll liberally in gold sprinkles.

7. Bake on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper approximately 10-12 minutes.

8. Consume while listening to Bruno Mars.

#25. Chocolate Kiss "Wontons"

I don't know how this happened.

How in the hell did I accumulate so many Hershey's Kisses? Someone else must have bought them. 

Guess I'm going to have to go on Kiss Baking Blitz. I already made this Kiss Kake: 

So, I decided to move on to cookies. I love a good ol' Kiss thumbprint, but I wanted to try something more unusual: Chocolate Kiss "Wontons." (Quotes because I used puff pastry.)

Btw, by "unusual," I don't mean "exotic" in that 19th-century racist Occidental/Oriental sense. I mean "unusual" FOR ME. Stop rolling over in your grave, Edward Said.

Ingredients

• 1 box  frozen puff pastry

• As many Hershey Kisses as you have

Directions

1. Defrost puff pastry temperature.

2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

3. On a floured surface, roll out puff pastry using a rolling pin (also floured). Thin the puff pastry dough to half its original thickness.

4. Use a star-shaped cookie cutter to create your "wonton." 

5. Place Hershey Kiss in center. Pinch together five points of star.

6. Bake for 8 minutes (or 2 minutes more if you want very crisp wontons).