The combination of the holidays and pregnancy hormones seem to put me in the baking mood. My husband knows that I don’t need a whole lot of excuses to bake. For years I’ve been making thumbprint cookies with Hershey’s Kisses for Christmas. It’s a tradition and they’re so easy to make. Plus, I like every excuse to eat chocolate!
During the holiday season, cookies seem to abound. I’m still trying to figure out how to get invited to one of those cookie exchanges I keep reading about! Hershey’s is sponsoring 1,000 cookie exchange parties for people across the country to encourage people to spend time together and exercise their baking skills. If you’re like me (and haven’t been invited to one of these infamous parties), you can still enjoy delicious cookies in your own home (or why not just create your own party?).
Hershey’s has an entire site dedicated holiday cooking recipes and party planning tips. The site is very interactive (it’s a Ning site) and members (membership is free) can discuss holiday baking secrets, share recipes, and share photos from parties.
Just in time for the holiday season are their famous festive blue and silver and red and green Hershey’s Kisses. And if you simply don’t have time to bake, why not include them as a stocking stuffer?
Here are the cookies I made, using the basic Chocolate Thumbprint recipe, courtesy of Hershey’s:
For more delicious recipes, check out Hershey’s Kitchens!
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Disclosure: I did not receive compensation for this review. I did receive a product, courtesy of the company in order to facilitate my review.
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I am drooling here….. YUM!!!!
Oh yum!!! I’ve never been invited to anything like that either! Maybe next year we should host our own! We won’t have tiny babies then!
Gotta love them kisses!! I just learned that Mr. Hershey took all the profits he made from the chocolate bar and created a school for the underprivileged and started with 5 students. It now has an enrollment of around 1800 of extremely well-behaved and articulate students, eager to learn and grow up and go to college and make a difference in society. What a wonderful thing Mr. Hershey did for our country… now I feel even better when I each chocolate. And isn’t it true, that sometimes, nothing will satisfy you except a Hershey bar?
Thanks for a terrific post – I love those kisses thumprint cookies. My other favorite is merangue (?sp) with the kiss inside! 🙂