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  • Had an idea for some cookies...

    If this works, they'll make awesome christmas cookies.

    The idea is: completely wrap a hershey's kiss in cookie dough, then bake. Hopefully what will happen is I'll wind up with a roughly conical cookie with a delicious chocolate center. So make a batch and let them cool completely, then the next batch gets allowed to cool just enough to set and stacked on top, and pressed down so they stick together. Let the whole thing cool and decorate as little trees. I'll use green food coloring in the cookie dough if my test batch proves out, so they'll look even more like trees.
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    I'll take a few dozen...boxes of those, please. *drool*
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    • #3
      My fillings will TYVM if you remove the tinfoil first...
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      • #4
        Awww, dalesys, but watching people suddenly start trying to pick shreds of foil out of melted half chewed lumps of chocolate and cookie crumbs was gonna be half my fun!
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        • #5
          Hmm, some thoughts here:

          -The Kiss will need to be fully surrounded in dough if you decide to leave the bottom off the chocolate will burn.

          -You're going to want to limit the dough spreading so that's going to mean a relatively dry recipe. I would recommend this one as a starting point.

          -Even limiting it as much as possible the result will still unlikely to be christmas tree shaped, most likely a dome shape.

          - A good idea is to freeze the kisses, chill the dough and work with rubber gloves. It will keep everything from melting too soon which would cause problems. Easier to clean up as well.
          Last edited by lordlundar; 08-18-2014, 01:52 PM.
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          • #6
            Yep, I was planning on fully wrapping the kisses with cookie dough, I don't want burnt, crumbly chocolate.

            I'm also planning on freezing the unbaked cookies for 15 minutes or so just before they go into the oven, that will also help them to maintain their shape as they bake.

            I've got a sugar cookie recipe that tends not to spread much as it bakes, I'm going to try it first, if it doesn't work I'll look at other recipes. The one you've linked to is not one that would work though. I need cookies that don't puff up as they bake, which means a recipe without baking soda or baking powder. And just leaving either one out of a recipe that calls them isn't likely to result in a very good cookie.

            You're probably right about them coming out more dome shaped, if they're too rounded I'll see about doing little tree tops out of just cookie dough.
            Last edited by Kittish; 08-18-2014, 07:38 PM.
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            • #7
              I'm pretty sure I've seen that somewhere. I'll have to look around our collection of old recipes.

              Here ya go: Hershey's Magical Cookies
              Last edited by MoonCat; 08-19-2014, 02:41 AM.
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              • #8
                So the initial test bake is promising. Add some green food coloring to the cookie dough, decorate with shiny sugar balls and colored icing and they should make neat looking cookie christmas trees. A bit of tweaking on the shape and different decorations and they become toadstools or mushrooms. I could probably even make them realistically pornographic.

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                • #9
                  If you wanted them to be Christmas cookies, you can make them into bells.

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                  • #10
                    I set out specifically to make christmas tree cookies. You're right though, it would be easy to make them into bells, and that would work well with the christmas theme. I like the idea, thank you.

                    So round two (had to use up the rest of the dough) came out even better than round one:
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                    • #11
                      Those are so cute! They do look like mushrooms!
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