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A chocolate blossom cookie with a bite taken out of it resting on another cookie.

Chocolate Blossom Cookies

Author: Gail Ng
These chocolate blossom cookies are soft and brownie-like chocolate cookies with Hershey's kisses pressed into the middle
4 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 43 minutes
Yield 24 cookies
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Cookies

  • 150 g all-purpose flour
  • 50 g natural cocoa powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 115 g unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 100 g brown sugar
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For rolling

  • 30 g granulated sugar
  • 30 g sprinkles
  • 30 g powdered sugar

For topping

  • 24 Hershey's kisses, unwrapped

Instructions
 

  • Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Dry mixture: In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
    Left to right: dry ingredients in a bowl, stirring flour mixture together with a spoon.
  • Cream butter and sugar: In a large mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer to beat butter until it becomes very creamy and pale in colour, about 3 minutes. Add brown sugar and cream together until fluffy.
    Left to right: brown sugar in a bowl of creamed butter, creaming butter and sugar together with a hand mixer.
  • Wet mixture: Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat together until combined.
    Left to right: egg and vanilla extract in a bowl of creamed butter and sugar, mixing wet mixture with a hand mixer.
  • Add dry to wet mixture: Add the flour mixture and mix on low speed until just combined and no flour patches remain.
    Left to right: flour mixture in a bowl of batter, mixed chocolate cookie dough in a bowl.
  • Scoop cookie dough: Use a 1-1.5 tablespoon cookie scooper to scoop the cookie dough into your hands. Roll the dough into a ball.
    Left to right: releasing cookie dough into a hand from a cookie scoop, rolling cookie dough in between hands.
  • Roll in coating: Roll the dough ball in either granulated sugar, sprinkles, or powdered sugar. Place the rolled ball on your lined baking sheet, leaving about 1" in between each cookie dough ball.
    Left to right: rolling cookie dough ball in sugar, rolling cookie dough ball in christmas sprinkles.
  • Bake: Bake cookies for 7-8 minutes or until they're puffy. While they're baking, unwrap all the Hershey's kisses. Immediately after taking the cookies out of the oven, press Hershey's kisses in the middle of each cookie.
    Left to right: blossom cookies on a baking sheet after baking, fingers pressing a Hershey's kiss chocolate into a cookie.
  • Cool: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 5-10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool or enjoy them warm!

Nutrition

Calories: 118kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 89mg | Potassium: 48mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 130IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg
Keywords chocolate blossom cookies, chocolate blossoms, chocolate holiday cookies
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