Christmas Chocolate Kiss Cookies (2024)

Spread some holiday cheer with these adorable little Christmas Chocolate Kiss Cookies. They're a great cookie project for grown-ups and kids alike because they're just plain fun to make ... and to eat!
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Our 6-year-old daughter Little Miss H. and I did our first round of Christmas baking this past weekend, kicking off the season with these little beauties.

I don't know who had more fun making them ~ me, or Little Miss. I think it was probably a tie. Because you know what? No matter what your age, making something with sprinkles is just plain fun.

Yes, these fun & festive cookies are a great project for grown-ups and kids alike.

I keep a pretty good assortment of sprinkles on hand, typically picking up holiday-specific ones after each holiday when they're on sale. It's a great practice to get in the habit of doing if you like to bake a lot like we do ... then when you want to make something extra-fun like these cookies, all you have to do is reach into the cabinet and pull out a great selection of sprinkles perfect for the job!

For these cookies, Little Miss H. and I poured a little bit of several sprinkle selections into small individual bowls. Then we just randomly adorned each cookie as we went along so we ended up with a good assortment of different sprinkles on the finished cookies.

I'm hard-pressed to pick a favorite ... but I think it's a tie between the white snowflakes and the green & red holly berry ones. Little Miss had no trouble choosing her favorite ... she likes the red/green/white non-pareils the best. But regardless, a cookie jar sure looks pretty stacked full with a batch of these.

To make these is pretty simple, as they're simply a sprinkle-adorned chocolate-take on the classic Peanut Butter Blossom thumbprint cookie.

I use our favorite chocolate thumbprint cookie dough from our favorite Insanely Delicious Turtle Cookies ... it's a rich, dark chocolate cookie dough that doesn't use any levener. That means the cookies won't spread or change shape really at all when baking ... which is good for a thumbprint-type cookie. You want the indentation you create with your thumb to stay pretty much as you make it so it's good for whatever filling you're putting in ... in this case, a Hershey chocolate Kiss.

Once the dough is mixed and chilled, form it into small balls and then roll each ball in sprinkles. Make sure each dough ball gets completely covered in sprinkles to create the best look.

Press your thumb into each sprinkle-covered ball ...

... to create a small indentation in the center. After baking, this indentation is where you'll rest the Hershey Kiss. The kiss will melt just a bit from the heat of the warm cookie and adhere to it.

And then you'll have a batch of fun-&-festive adorable little Christmas Chocolate Kiss Cookies, ready to spread some holiday cheer.

They're such a fun cookie project for grown-ups and kids alike because they're just plain fun to make ... and just plain fun to eat, too!