We had a hard time when we were growing up in Chicago keeping ourselves in sweets. We did not have a lot of spending money and when mom baked, four or sometimes 5 boys would have a hard time not going through a couple dozen homemade cookies in a few days. Mom baked a lot so, we really did not have anything to complain about.
Christmas was our favorite time of the year. Mom would make dozen upon dozens of cookies and store them in Christmas cookie tins on the back enclosed porch, which was as good as a refrigerator in a Chicago winter. Of course once we were old enough to figure out where the cookies were stored, we also figured out how to eat as many as we wanted without getting into trouble. You see, you had to take the cookies from the various levels and spread out the rest so that the cookie tin looked the same as when you opened it. It also meant that you had to graze a little, you ate from several different tins whenever possible.
These Hershey Kiss Cookies were way up there on the favorites list. The soft cookie, the hard chocolate candy....perfection. I used the recipe from
bettycrocker but there are dozens of interesting variation on the
hershey kiss cookie page. This recipe does have peanut butter in it, so those with allergies will have to substitute.
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