Happy Birthday Curt....(red velvet) Kisses to celebrate!

Well it's been a looooong couple weeks since I last posted. I can't even remember what I've all done...perhaps that because a lot of it was something that rhymed with "fork"-and didn't involve anything fun like eating  : /  I haven't forgot about the blog or baking!

We had visitors this past weekend- Curt's parents made the long trek south to visit us, and in celebration I HAD to make something.  And if you hadn't seen my recent pinning of Red Velvet-ness on pinterest, this recipe fits with my obsession! 

I hadn't actually found this recipe on pinterest, but had recently seen this recipe for Nutella kiss cookies, and for obvious reasons couldn't bake them up...but started brainstorming to make a red velvet twist.  Which, upon googling "red velvet kiss cookies" I realized I wasn't the only one thinking about these!  So I took a few recipes, mixed them up, and came up with my own recipe- which follows.

Red Velvet Kiss Cookies

Ingredients
-3/4 c butter, softened
-2 eggs
-1 c white sugar
-1 c brown sugar
-1 tsp vanilla
-1 tsp vinegar
-Red food coloring
-2 1/2 c flour
-1/2 c red velvet cake mix (dry)
-1/2 c cocoa powder
-1/2 tsp baking soda
-1/2 tsp salt
-Powdered Sugar
-Hershey Kisses

(I know...seems like a lot of ingredients for a recipe of MINE...you know me & less ingredients=better)

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 325 degrees
-Cream together butter & white and brown sugars
-Mix in the eggs, vanilla, and vinegar & add in red food coloring (you can tell I didn't add enough...)
-In second bowl, combine the flour, red velvet cake mix, cocoa powder, baking soda, & salt
-Add the dry ingredients (I did about 1/3 at a time, then mixed, added, mixed) until all combined
-Roll dough into balls
-Dump a little powdered sugar in a bowl & roll balls of dough in sugar to coat
-Place cookie dough on parchment-paper lined cookie sheets & bake about 8-10 minutes
-While cookies are baking, count out a hershey kiss for each cookie & unwrap them
-Take cookies out of oven (they will puff up some & create the "crackle"), and press a kiss into the top of each
-Cool cookies & enjoy :)

The dry ingredients & the wet

I set up an assembly line...rolled into balls, into the powdered sugar, then on the pan!

they look like donut holes....maybe my next project!!!!

out of the oven- pressing a kiss into each cookie

You can see my product wasn't very "red" but delicious none-the-less

mmm Rich Red-Velvety-chocolate goodness

Ok, so these weren't exactly Curt's dream birthday treat....so I whipped up some homemade blueberry muffins as his "cake".  I think his mom & I ate enough of these cookies to make up for what he didn't :)

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