Christmas Cookies

We have a basic chocolate cookie recipe that is made often (usually by Savannah) at our house.  The cookies are “delish”, as Sadie says, but especially so when we dress them up a bit for Christmas.  Here’s the basic recipe, followed by the extra Christmas treat:

Fudgy Chocolate Cookies

1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix

1/2 c. oil

2 eggs

1 cup chocolate chips

Directions:  Combine dry cake mix, oil, and eggs.  Mix well.  Stir in chocolate chips.  Use a cookie scoop or drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350º for 8-11 minutes.  Do not overbake.  SO Easy!

And here’s how to dress them up for the holidays…

Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookies

Bake as directed, but as soon as you take them out of the oven, top each cookie with a Candy Cane flavored Hershey Kiss*.  Bake for an additional 30 seconds, remove from oven and let stand for 2 minutes.  Then spread the kiss like frosting.  Allow to completely cool — if you can wait that long — before eating.  Yumm-o! (*see instructions below for our current way of decorating the cookies.)

[*August 2021 update: Instead of melting the kisses on top of the cookies, I open all the kisses (~30 kisses per batch) and microwave them in a small glass bowl, stirring after each 30 second increment, until completely melted. It should only take a minute or just barely longer. Pour into a ziplock bag and cut off a tiny corner then pipe the peppermint onto each cookie, back and forth in stripes or however you want to do it. These are a favorite of Soren and several of his friends. :)]