Cherry Kiss Cookies
Pretty In Pink Shortbread with Bits of Maraschino Cherries and a Kiss On Top
Ingredients
- 1 c butter or margarine, softened
- 1 c powdered sugar
- 1/2 t salt
- 2 t maraschino cherry juice
- 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 1/2 t almond extract
- 6 drops red food coloring
- 2 1/4 c flour
- 1/2 c maraschino cherries chopped
- 24-40 Hershey's Kisses unwrapped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In a mixing bowl, combine butter, powdered sugar, and salt and mix with electric mixer until smooth
- Add cherry juice, extracts, and food coloring and continue mixing
- Add flour gradually, and then stir in cherries
- Roll dough into 1" balls and onto baking sheets
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until they are just barely beginning to turn brown
- Unwrap Kisses. Eat one or two. Give someone you love a kiss. Either kind.
- Remove from oven and immediately press one Kiss into the center of each cookie. It will bloom outward and the edges may crack a bit, and that is okay