Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies

Chocolate peppermint kiss cookies

Ingredients:

• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 48 peppermint kiss candies
• Red sanding sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F
2. Mix flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda together in a small bowl.
3. Beat white sugar, brown sugar, and butter together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add vanilla extract and eggs; beat well.
4. Stir flour mixture into sugar mixture; mix well.
5. Lightly flour hands. Shape about 1 tablespoon dough into a ball for each cookie. Place red sanding sugar in a small bowl. Press one side of each ball into sugar.
6. Place balls, sugar sides up, onto a baking sheet, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes until cookie is set and slightly cracked.
7. Remove cookie sheet from oven and immediately press a peppermint kiss down into center of the cookie. Cool on the baking sheet for five minutes and transfer carefully to a wire rack to cook completely.