Cherry Kisses

This is a really NEW recipe, because I just made it up! I am starting to make my Christmas cookies and freeze them. Hershey just came out with a cherry cordial kiss, so with the help of a couple of different cookie recipes, I came up with this one. My little 2 1/2 year old grandson "helped" mix. He waited until I stopped the mixer and he added each ingredient.

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 3 oz. box cherry Jello
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 tsp. almond flavoring
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1/2 cup milk
• red paste coloring, optional
• 60 cherry cordial Hershey kisses

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Sift flour, salt, and soda together. Mix butter, sugar and jello until creamy, and add eggs one at a time. Add almond flavoring. Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Flour hands and roll 1 tablespoon balls of dough on ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes. Place unwrapped kiss in the center of HOT baked cookie and cool completely on the cookie sheet. This takes a long time for the kiss to solidify, so don't rush or you will have nothing but blobs on the cookie.

By Margie Minard from Mount Vernon, Ohio