Day 15- Peppermint Crinkles

Remember chocolate crinkles? Well these are just like them, except with mint in them and a hershey kiss on top! They are so minty, if you eat them after dinner, it's like having an after dinner mint :-) Here's the recipe!

Chocolate mint kiss crinkles

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

4 lg. eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon peppermint extract

1 cup powdered sugar

2 teaspoon green colored sugar (optional)

bag of mint truffle flavored Hershey's Kisses

Directions:
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, oil, and eggs until well mixed. Whisk in extracts.
3. Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients just until combined. Chill dough for at least 2 hours

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

5. Grease cookie sheets(or use stones like I do :-) Roll dough into 1/2 Tablespoon balls. Roll balls into mixture of powdered sugar/green sugar. Place on cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake for 11 to 13 minutes, until cookies crackle and dough doesn't look raw.

6. While cookies are baking, unwrap the kisses and make some room in your refrigerator or freezer for the cookie sheets. When the cookies come out of the oven, immediately place a kiss in the center of each cookie and press lightly. The kisses will start to melt, so it's best if you are able to place the cookie sheet (with the kiss cookies still on it) directly into the freezer or refrigerator until the kisses can cool off and set up.

Makes about 5dz. yummy cookies!

Now get bakin' :-)