Rich Hershey's Kisses Tiger Cookies

Total Time: 33 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• powdered sugar
• 48 hershey chocolate kisses, unwrapped

Recipe

• 1 combine the sugar and oil in a large bowl.
• 2 add the cocoa, beating until well blended.
• 3 beat in the eggs and vanilla.
• 4 stir together the flour, baking powder and salt, gradually add to the cocoa mixture, beating well.
• 5 cover and refrigerate until dough is firm enough to handle, at least 6 hours.
• 6 preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• 7 grease a cookie sheet or line it with parchment paper (that one is my trick).
• 8 shape the dough into 1-inch balls (the dough will still be sticky, you might want to wet your hands just a bit).
• 9 roll in powdered sugar to coat.
• 10 place about the balls about 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheet.
• 11 bake for 11 to 13 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched lightly and tops are cracked.
• 12 immediately press a kiss into the center of each cookie.
• 13 cool slightly.
• 14 remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
• 15 cool completely.