A classic treat made easier.
It was a great day when I discovered cake mix cookies. Homemade cookies went from being a treat for special occasions to something I could whip up any weekday on a whim.
Once I’d learned this trick, I just had to try it with all my favorite cookie recipes. So it was only a matter of time before I tried it on that classic treat, the chocolate kiss cookie.
To make kiss cookies, you make your favorite kind of cookie – peanut butter is a classic, but I’m partial to chocolate-chocolate-chip – and then, while they’re still warm out of the oven, press a Hershey Kiss into the center of each one. The hot cookie melts the chocolate and glues the Kiss into place, so once it cools, it’s a cookie and candy all in one.
Made with chocolate cake mix, chocolate chips, and chocolate kisses, these Easy Cake Mix Kiss Cookies are a chocolate triple threat. And because the cake mix puts together all the dry ingredients for you, you can have them in and out of the oven in less than 15 minutes.
Of course, you’ll have to wait another half hour for the cookies to cool if you don’t want to get melted chocolate all over your face. But if you just can’t wait that long, I won’t tell.
Easy Cake Mix Kiss Cookies
Ingredients:
1 box Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
¼ cup granulated sugar to roll the cookie balls in
28-30 Hershey kisses
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Start by unwrapping the Hershey kisses and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix well with a spoon until soft dough is formed.
3. Stir in the chocolate chips just until combined.
4. Using a teaspoon or a small cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough and roll it into a ball, roll the ball in the granulated sugar.
5. Place cookies 2 inches apart on a non-stick cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 9-10 minutes. When done, pull the cookie sheet out of the oven and immediately press a Hershey kiss into the middle of it. Let the cookies sit for a minute and then transfer to a cooling rack.
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Easy Cake Mix Kiss Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup granulated sugar to roll the cookie balls in
- 28-30 Hershey kisses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Start by unwrapping the Hershey kisses and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix well with a spoon until soft dough is formed.
- Stir in the chocolate chips just until combined.
- Using a teaspoon or a small cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough and roll it into a ball, roll the ball in the granulated sugar.
- Place cookies 2 inches apart on a non-stick cookie sheet.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes. When done, pull the cookie sheet out of the oven and immediately press a Hershey kiss into the middle of it. Let the cookies sit for a minute and then transfer to a cooling rack.
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Nutrition Information:
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Margret Braun says
I am going to have to make these! They remind me of my Dad’s Brach Chocolate Star Peanut Butter cookies! Except he used brown sugar to roll the cookie dough in.