Kiss Cookies Recipe (without Peanut Butter)
For a nut-free Hershey Kiss Cookies recipe without peanut butter, follow this easy recipe.
Servings 15
Calories 120kcal
Equipment
- stand mixer or beater
Ingredients
- 1 stick (same as 1/2 cup softened butter)
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt I prefer coarse salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 35 Hershey's Kisses unwrapped
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar optional - for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat with stand mixer or a hand mixer (softened but not melted) butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla extract until well blended.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix.
- Slowly blend the dry ingredients and the milk into the wet mixture.
- Shape into 1 inch balls.
- Optional - Roll each ball in a bowl of powdered sugar.
- Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 8 - 10 minutes until the cookies are just slightly browned.
- Remove from the oven and let cool for 1-2 minutes.
- Press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie.
- Move cookies to a wire rack to completely cool.
- Makes around 35 cookies.
Notes
We needed nut-free cookies for a class party. I searched the internet, combined a few recipes and came up with my own version of a Kiss Cookies Recipe without peanut butter.