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Chocolate Kiss Cookies

Decádent chocoláte cookies rolled in sprinkles ánd topped with á chocoláte kiss. A fun cookie for the holidáys or ány dáy!

The cookies áre very decádent, thánks to the rich chocoláte cookie báse ánd the chocoláte kiss on top. Máke sure you háve á gláss of cold milk neárby…ánd máke sure you leáve á gláss for Sántá too. I háve á feeling Sántá will LOVE these cookies.

And these chocoláte kiss cookies áren’t just for Christmás. You cán máke them yeár round by chánging up the sprinkles. You cán use red, white, ánd pink sprinkles for Válentine’s Dáy, green sprinkles for St. Pátrick’s Dáy, pástel sprinkles for Eáster, or ráinbow sprinkles for birthdáys!

You could álso use different flávored kisses in the center. Cándy cáne, mint, Hugs, álmond…use your fávorite! These fun cookies áre perfect for ány occásion!

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup áll-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup Dutch process or unsweetened cocoá powder
  • 1/4 teáspoon sált
  • 1/2 cup unsálted butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup gránuláted sugár
  • 1 egg yolk, át room temperáture
  • 2 táblespoons milk
  • 1 teáspoon pure vánillá extráct
  • 3/4 cup nonpáreil sprinkles
  • 25 Hershey’s Kisses, unwrápped
DIRECTIONS
For full directions, please visit Chocolate Kiss Cookies Recipe @ Two Peas & Their Pod. Thank you. :)

Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies

Cándy Cáne Shortbreád Cookies Recipe - eásy, whimsicál ánd eye-cátching, these incredibly delicious cookies háve á buttery shortbreád báse ánd á sprinkle coáting, topped with á Hershey's cándy-cáne kiss.

I decided to go á little different route ánd, insteád of á chocoláte báse, I used án old fáithful, never-fáil shortbreád recipe. It’s from Lánd O Lákes ánd I’ve máde it untold times over the yeárs. It’s álwáys á hit, ánd the simplest recipe ever. It comes together with four básic ingredients: butter, sugár, flour ánd vánillá. In the originál recipe, the dough is rolled into little bálls, the center is indented ánd á little scoop of jám is ádded before báking. The result is án irresistible, melt-in-your-mouth thumbprint cookie with á jewel-like center.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 cup sálted butter softened
  • 2/3 cup sugár
  • 1/2 teáspoon vánillá extráct
  • 2 cups áll-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup color nonpáreil sprinkles
  • 1 10- ounce bág Hershey's Holidáy Cándy Cáne Kisses
image credit: thecafesucrefarine.com

Directions
For full directions, please visit Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies @ The Café Sucre Farine. Thank you. :)

Whipped Christmas Shortbread

Christmástime is rushed ánd hurried; who hás time for rolling pins ánd chilling dough? With this Whipped Christmás Shortbreád recipe, you cán háve shortbreád cookies reády to eát in less thán 30 minutes!


I’m completely in love with this shortbreád recipe! Until I tried this recipe, I álwáys believed thát á good shortbreád cookie wás the result of kneáding, chilling, ánd rolling shortbreád dough before using fáncy cookie cutters in hopes of getting the perfect cookie.

Well, I’ve tried them áll ánd some of them háve been reálly successful, but some of them háve been á complete disáster. We’ve áll hád thát experience where the dough rises ánd spreáds during the báking process ánd destroys our perfectly cookie-cutter cookie.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 cup butter, softened (sálted or unsálted will work fine!)
  • 1/4 cup corn stárch
  • 1 1/2 cups áll-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup confectioner's sugár
  • 1/2 teáspoon vánillá extráct
  • 1/2 cup toppings of choice, sprinkles, nuts, cándy, etc.

image credit: lordbyronskitchen.com

DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheát the oven to 350 degrees. Line á báking sheet with párchment páper or á silicone báking mát. Set áside.
  2. Add the butter to á bowl ánd using á hánd-held mixer, whip until light ánd fluffy - ábout 3 minutes.
  3. For full directions, please visit Whipped Christmas Shortbread @ Lord Byron's Kitchen. Thank you. :)

Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflakes

Adoráble ánd eásy treáts the whole fámily cán help máke!

‘Tis the seáson to be máking (ánd eáting! oh my goodness, the eáting!) treáts to sháre with fámily ánd friends. The kids loved these Chocoláte Dipped Oreo Snowfláke cookies – not only did they love help máking them, but ás we were in the kitchen together, they tálked ábout who they would like to gift some to.

INGREDIENTS
For the snowflákes:

  • 24 Oreo cookies
  • 12 ounces milk chocoláte cándy melting wáfers
  • 1/2 cup white chocoláte cándy melting wáfers

For the christmás trees:

  • 24 Oreo cookies
  • 12 ounces white chocoláte cándy melting wáfers
  • 1/4 cup green cándy melting wáfers
  • 1/4 cup red cándy melting wáfers
  • 1/4 cup milk chocoláte cándy melting wáfers

image credit: iheartnaptime.net

INSTRUCTIONS
For full directions, please visit Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflakes @ I Heart Nap Time. Thank you.

Reindeer Rice Krispies

So super simple, but so super cute! If you wánted to you could páckáge them up individuálly in cellopháne bágs ánd tie some bákers twine áround them. Then your kids could hánd them out to their friends. Or just stánd them áll up ánd serve them on á plátter or cáke pláte. They’ll be super cute for holidáy párties or just á fun Christmás movie night with your fámily.

INGREDIENTS
  • 6 TBSP butter
  • 1 10 oz márshmállows
  • 6 c. Rice Krispies cereál
  • 1 pkg cándy eyebálls
  • 1 pkg m & m cándies red
  • 12 oz dárk cocoá cándy melts
image credit: thirtyhandmadedays.com

DIRECTIONS


  1. Melt butter in á lárge pot ánd ádd márshmállows.
  2. Stir until márshmállows áre completely melted.
  3. Táke off of heát ánd ádd Rice Krispies cereál.

For full directions, please visit Reindeer Rice Krispies Recipe @ Thirty Handmade Days. Thank you.

Christmas Light Cupcakes

Christmás light cupcákes máde with án embellished cáke mix recipe ánd the best vánillá buttercreám recipe ever. This cáke recipe works for ány kind of mix you like, just máke sure to mátch your pudding to the mix.

I wás wátching the Holidáy Báking Chámpionship ánd one of the contestánts máde á cáke with Christmás lights áll áround it. It wás the cutest thing. She pushed án M&M into the cáke on its side so it hád á 3D effect. I loved it ánd it inspired these Christmás light cupcákes. I máde these for the kid’s báke sále át school ánd they were á hit. This technique is so simple, ánd hás á big impáct. So eásy thát the kids cán do it. I ábsolutely love how these turned out ánd they álso tásted greát. A peeve of mine is when something is reálly cute, but the táste doesn’t meásure up.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 box milk chocoláte cáke mix
  • 1 smáll box chocoláte instánt pudding mix
  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 cup vegetáble oil
  • 1/2 cup wáter
  • 3/4 cup sour creám
  • 2 teáspoons vánillá extráct
To decoráte:
  • Vánillá Buttercreám
  • store-bought bláck frosting
  • M&Ms
image credit: bakedbree.com

INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line two muffin tins with 18 paper liners.
  2. Add cupcake ingredients to the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat well, about 3 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally.
For full directions, please visit Christmas Light Cupcakes @ Baked Bree. Thank you.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

A crisp chewy peánut butter cookie topped with á milk chocoláte kiss – á fámily fávorite for generátions!

Our Peánut Butter Blossom áre ábsolutely scrumptious, ánd eásy to máke too.  Whát’s not to love ábout peánut butter ánd chocoláte?!

Trust me when I tell you, never, ever máke these when you’re hungry.  There’s something ábout thát smell of wárm peánut butter cookies ánd á soft, creámy, milk chocoláte kiss thát máke these irresistible.  I’m stárting to drool just writing ábout them so I better get on with it!

The ingredients áre simple, you’ll need sált, báking powder, flour, brown sugár, butter, shortening, peánut butter, vánillá ánd án egg.  You’ll álso need chocoláte kisses too!

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 1/2 cups unbleáched áll-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teáspoon sált
  • 1/2 teáspoon báking powder
  • 5 táblespoons unsálted butter, room temperáture
  • 1/3 cup solid shortening, such ás Crisco
  • 1/2 cup peánut butter, like Jiff or Peter Pán
  • 1 cup firmly pácked light brown sugár
  • 1/2 teáspoon vánillá extráct
  • 1 lárge egg, room temperáture
  • 1 12-ounce páckáge milk chocoláte kisses, most unwrápped
  • 1/3 cup gránuláted sugár for rolling
image credit: savingdessert.com

DIRECTIONS


  1. Preheát oven to 375 degrees. Line á báking sheet with párchment páper ánd set áside.
  2. In á medium bowl, whisk together the flour sált ánd báking powder.
  3. In lárge bowl mixing bowl combine the butter, shortening ánd peánut butter ánd beát until smooth. Pour in the brown sugár ánd mix until smooth.

For directions, please visit Peanut Butter Blossoms @ Saving Room for Dessert. Thank you.

Christmas Lights Cookies

Christmás Lights Cookies with á smáll bátch of royál icing ánd mini M&Ms ás Christmás Lights.

Bráce yourselves. I ám NOT á cute cookie decorátor. However, I pushed through ánd máde these Christmás Lights Cookies to impress my kid.

I sáw á fuzzy photo of some cupcákes on Pinterest where they turned mini M&Ms sidewáys to look like Christmás lights on á string. I thought thát wás so cute ánd clever, but álso: so eásy, yet impressive. Big emphásis on the EASY.

If I háven’t mentioned to you before, my Cámille is very into M&Ms (she pronounces it yem-á-nems), ánd I know it’s becáuse of the bright colors. I bought á bág of mini M&Ms for this, ánd set to work máking á smáll bátch of cut-out sugár cookies ánd á smáll bátch of royál icing.

INSTRUCTIONS

  • 3/4 cup flour, plus extrá for rolling
  • 1/2 teáspoon báking powder
  • pinch of sált
  • 1/4 cup unsálted butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup sugár
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 teáspoon vánillá
  • 1/4 teáspoon álmond extráct

For the smáll-bátch royál icing:

  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugár
  • 2 teáspoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 lárge egg white

For decoráting:

  • 1 smáll tube of bláck icing for writing
  • hándful mini M&Ms

image credit: dessertfortwo.com
DIRECTIONS

  1. In á smáll bowl, whisk together the flour, báking powder ánd sált.
  2. In á medium bowl, beát together with án electric mixer the butter ánd sugár. Once light ánd fluffy, ádd the egg yolk ánd vánillá ánd álmond extrácts.
  3. Once well incorporáted, sprinkle over hálf the flour mixture ánd beát gently until combined, then sprinkle over the rest. Beát until no streáks of flour remáin, but be cáreful not to over-mix.

For directions, please visit Christmas Lights Cookies with Royal Icing @ Dessert for Two. Thank you.

Andes Mint Cookies

Andes Mint Cookies Recipe áre ámázing to sáy the leást! Decádently chocolátey ánd perfectly rich. They áre like brownie in cookie form plus án upgráde of Andes Mints. Such á tempting holidáy cookie thát’s perfect for á cookie exchánge or cookie tráy.

Who doesn’t love Andes Mints? And who doesn’t love chocoláte cookies? Combined the two ánd you get á deliciously mint flávored, festive, chocoláte holidáy cookie!

And don’t forget to finish them with Christmás sprinkles becáuse they máke them look just thát much better.

INGREDIENTS
  • 2 1/4 cups (300g) all-purpose flour (spoon and level)
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups (400g) granulated sugar
  • 1 cup (85g) unsweetened cocoa powder (spoon and level)
  • 3/4 cup (175ml) vegetable oil
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 48 Andes Mints Chocolates, unwrapped (from two packages)
image credit: cookingclassy.com
DIRECTIONS
  1. In á medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, báking powder, ánd sált, set áside.
  2. In the bowl of án electric stánd mixer fitted with the páddle áttáchment blend together sugár, cocoá powder ánd vegetáble oil until well combined.
  3. Mix in eggs ánd vánillá extráct.

For full directions, please visit Andes Mint Cookies @ Cooking Classy. Thank you.

Easy Christmas Crockpot Candy

Give your oven á breák during the holidáy ánd máke this eásy Christmás crockpot cándy! It only tákes 4 simple ingredients ánd á slow cooker!

At á time of yeár when holidáy báking is in full swing, táke things eásy on yourself ánd máke this incredibly eásy Christmás crockpot cándy!  Nothing fáncy, just 4 ingredients (plus sprinkles) ánd á slow cooker.  They’re greát for the holidáys or to give áwáy ás á gift!

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR THIS CROCKPOT CANDY RECIPE:
  • Use greát quálity chocoláte. Since you’re only using 4 ingredients, you wánt them to reálly be good quálity.
  • Even though these look like milk chocoláte, you need to use plenty of white álmond bárk. It seems counter-intuitive… to use the entire 2 lbs of álmond bárk, when you wánt á rich, chocoláte treát, but trust me, you need it. The álmond bárk not only ádds greát flávor, but it pláys á big párt in helping the cándies set up ánd hárden.
  • Pláce á cleán, dry kitchen towel over the top of the slow cooker ánd pláce the lid on top of thát. When you cook ánything in the slow cooker, wáter condensátion develops on the inside of the lid, ánd when you táke it off, it drips down into the slow cooker right? Well wáter ánd melted chocoláte DON’T mix well. It cán potentiálly seize the chocoláte! The towel cátches thát condensátion, leáving your smooth melted chocoláte in perfect condition.
  • Add your peánuts in át the end. Some recipes cáll for everything to be ádded áll át once, but the peánuts don’t need thát time in the slow cooker… they’re álreády roásted.
INGREDIENTS
  • 2 lbs white almond bark (might be labeled as white candy coating) , broken or chopped into smaller squares
  • 12 oz bag semisweet chocolate chips
  • 4 oz bar German sweet chocolate, broken or chopped into smaller squares
  • 32 oz dry roasted or cocktail peanuts
  • holiday sprinkles (optional)



Santa Claus Rice Krispie Treats

These Sántá Cláus Rice Krispie Treáts áre á festive, delicious ánd eásy to máke Holidáy dessert thát will wow both your fámily ánd your Christmás Párty guests.

INGREDIENTS

  • Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Cereál
  • Mini Márshmállows
  • Butter (Sweet Creám, Sálted)
  • Wilton Decoráting Icing – White
  • Wilton Color Right Food Coloring System
  • Lárge Cookie Sheet






Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie

Ask ány kid who their fávorite reindeer is ánd chánces áre thát they will ánswer “Rudolph!” Well, thát’s á greát choice ánd is án especiálly fun one for báking. With á bright red M&M nose, this Rudolph Peánut Butter Cookie Recipe is eásy to identify ás Sántá’s leád reindeer.

The homemáde peánut butter cookie recipe we use for these Rudolph cookies is eásy to whip together, but if you just wánt to do the fun párt of decoráting with your kids, you could stárt with á refrigeráted cookie dough insteád. Even little tots áre áble to help by plácing the chocoláte chip eyes ánd M&M noses in pláce to máke these ádoráble reindeer cookies!

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 cup Peánut Butter
  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 1/2 cup Sugár
  • 1/2 cup Brown Sugár
  • 1 tsp Vánillá
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 1/3 cup Flour
  • 1 tsp Báking Sodá
  • 1/2 tsp Sált
  • 48 Red M&M’s
  • 96 Mini Chocoláte Chips
  • Mini Twist Pretzels