Last evening, as I sat peeling green, red, and silver foil off an eleven-ounce bag of Hershey's Kisses, I started to think about...well, kisses.
The kiss most certainly is a sweet creation.
And I'm not talking about Milton Hershey's creation ~ though it really is impressive. What the world knows as the Hershey kiss really does geometrically look like a kiss somehow.
When I was begged to make those cookies with those Hershey Kisses on top last night, I confess that ~ in the midst of the boring procedure of separating every piece of colored aluminum and its little Hershey kiss banner from the "kiss" of chocolate the recipe calls for ~ I eventually began to think about actual kisses.
In real life, I look around and see that kissing is one of life's most underrated, underused pleasures. But on the silver screen? Well, it is there that kissing is rightfully given the place it deserves.
So, before I share today's Peanut Butter Kiss Cookie recipe, I will share my top five favorite Hollywood kisses:
At #5... Jack & Rose moving across the icy waters through a gorgeous sky ~ even the well-known ultimate fate of the Titanic doesn’t douse the passion of this kiss.
At #4... Mr. & Mrs. Smith decide they really don’t want to kill each other after all ~ all along, they really wanted to kiss each other.
At #3... It took 365 letters, but The Notebook’s reunion kiss between Ally and Noah during a North Carolina downpour sure was worth it.
At #2... In It's A Wonderful Life, it’s not so much the kiss as the five minutes of record-smashing, crabbiness, and foolish guardedness leading up to the moment when George Bailey finally realizes he loves Mary and their lips meet.
At #1... Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy never actually kiss in the universal version of Pride & Prejudice (though to satisfy US audiences, the American version alters its ending to allow for one). But the near-kiss in the midst of a rain-soaked and painfully civil but heated misunderstanding is so intense they may as well have passed a kiss between them.
Afterall, passing up a good kiss with the one you love is just bad form. And ~ unless you have a peanut allergy ~ so is passing up these classic Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies:
Butter (1 cup)
Peanut butter (1 cup)
Sugar (1 cup)
Light Brown Sugar (1 cup)
Eggs (2)
Vanilla (2 tsp.)
Milk (4 tbsp.)
Flour (3 and ½ cups)
Baking Soda (2 tsp.)
Salt (1 tsp.)
A bag of Hershey Kisses
Preheat the oven on to 350 degrees, and remove the foil off of at least two dozen of the kisses. (You can do the rest once your cookies are baking oven.)
Mix the butter, peanut butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and milk in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with the soda and salt before pouring into the mixture.
Roll into balls and roll them around in a small bowl of sugar. Shake off and place about an inch apart on cookie sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes or until done and remove from oven. Plant a kiss on top of each one, pressing it a little to set in the cookie.
Cool, then serve these perfect little kisses to the ones you love.
Have a wonderful Tuesday J
Your recipe using Hershey Kisses prompted me to share one of my favorite Hershey Kisses recipe. It's not a cookie but it is delicious. And addicting. All you need are pretzels, kisses and m&m's. I use the small "waffle" pretzels, and for the holidays, I like to use the red and green m&m's and the candy cane kisses. You can use any of the kisses but the candy cane kisses are soooo good with the chocolate and salt.
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Line a tray with parchment paper (this is an important step I found out. You and I in the kitchen are very much alike).
Place a "kiss" on each pretzel
Oven for 4 to 6 mins. (My oven is 6 mins.)
Kisses should be soft enough so when you place an m&m on top it flattens down nicely.
Cool for a few minutes and then put in fridge for 10 mins to set.
That's it. That's my kind of "baking".