Chocolate Cherry Kiss Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

2 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening (such as Crisco®)
1 cup powdered sugar
4 teaspoons maraschino cherry juice
4 drops red food coloring
¾ teaspoon almond extract
⅛ teaspoon cherry flavoring (such as Wilton®)
¾ cup drained, chopped maraschino cherries
48 milk chocolate kisses (such as HERSHEY'S), or more as needed

Nutrition Info

99.5 calories
carbohydrate: 11.3 g
cholesterol: 1 mg
fat: 5.8 g
fiber: 0.4 g
protein: 1 g
saturatedFat: 2 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 28.3 mg
sugar: 2.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

  2. Whisk flour and salt together in a small bowl.

  3. Combine shortening, powdered sugar, cherry juice, red food coloring, and cherry flavoring in a large bowl. Add flour mixture and mix well. Stir in maraschino cherries.

  4. Shape dough into 1-inch balls, arrange 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until edges are light golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately top each cookie with a chocolate kiss, pressing firmly. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

Recipe Yield

4 dozen cookies

Recipe Note

My grandma loved chocolate-covered cherries, so I combined 2 recipes to come up with these yummy cookies. She loved that I made a special cookie just for her. These are also Jessie's favorite cookie.

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