If you’re anything like me, when a holiday rolls around, you’re most excited to see the special candy that supposedly will accompany that holiday. I love to go to the store and see: candy hearts, Cadbury eggs, peppermint bark…anything that will tip you off as to which holiday is next. I am always tempted, most of all, by special edition Hershey Kisses. As someone who is not a fan of the ordinary Hershey Kiss, I go head-over-heals for a holiday edition. I grab up bags of Cherry Cordial, Mint Truffle, Coconut Creme, Peppermint Bark, Pumpkin Spice (which was actually just too much for me because it made me quite ill)…and then I end up with a freezer full of opened bags of kisses, because really I only wanted to try a couple. So, what to do with all of these delightfully flavored treats? Besides filling cute coffee mugs with them and using them as gifts, the best thing to do with candy is bake it into cookies!
I made up my basic chocolate chip cookie dough, and left out the chips. Instead, I chopped up various kinds of Kisses and mixed them into the batter, divided into a couple containers to keep flavors separate. I now have a freezer full of cookie doughs…but that’s a lot easier to bake on the fly for a gift! Today I made two kinds of dough: white chocolate peppermint and white chocolate raspberry (which were actually too sweet to eat on their own, but mixed into my cookie dough, which is a slightly savory neutral, they were perfect). The peppermint was a cool burst of yumminess in every bite, where the raspberry tasted kind of like cheesecake and was a perfect accompaniment to my chocolate raspberry coffee (maybe that’s my flavor obsession of the week).
