Kissables Chocolate Candies Thumbprint Cookies

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 42
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup hershey's cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• powdered sugar
• 1 (16 ounce) can vanilla frosting
• additional powdered sugar
• 1 1/3 cups hershey chocolate kisses (decorative candies)

Recipe

• 1 beat butter, granulated sugar, egg yolks, milk and vanilla until fluffy.
• 2 combine flour, cocoa and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended.
• 3 cover; refrigerate dough about 2 hours or until firm enough to handle.
• 4 heat oven to 350°f lightly grease cookie sheet. shape dough into 1-1/8-inch balls.
• 5 roll in powdered sugar; place on prepared cookie sheet. press thumb in center of each cookie.
• 6 bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. remove from cookie sheet to wire rack; cool completely.
• 7 spoon frosting into heavy-duty resealable plastic food storeage bag. cut off corner of bag about 1/4 inch from point; pipe frosting into thumbprint indentations.
• 8 sift additional powdered sugar over filled cookies, if desired.
• 9 gently press 3 to 4 candies each filled cookie.
• 10 vanilla variation: increase flour to 2-3/4 cups; omit cocoa.