Conference turris::cooks

    my best guess it to make your favorite cookie recipie and add a
    Hershey's kiss! 
    I wouldn't put the kiss in the oven because as it's not meant for
    baking, it would be quite runny. 
    when the cookies are still hot, right our of the oven, press the
    kiss into the cookie.
    
    laura

        Try note 144, that is the official choc fudge note... you could
        also look in note 12.8 for recipe notes that are peanut
        oriented...
        

    ahem, check note 5.8 for peanut oriented notes....
    
    Gidday Dave, fancy meeting you here.
    
    ed

    Here's a recipe that my wife has been using for a number of years.
    
    Ken
    
	Peanut butter chocolate kisses

	2 2/3 cups flour
	2 tsp. baking soda
	1 tsp. salt
	1 cup butter
	2/3 cup health food peanut butter
	1 1/2 cups granulated brown sugar, plus extra to roll cookies in 
	2 eggs
	2 tsp. vanilla
	Hershey's kisses

	Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl.  Beat together 
	butter and peanut butter in another bowl.  Add sugar and beat well.  
	Mix in eggs and vanilla then add the sifted dry ingredients and 
	combine them thoroughly.  Clill the dough for 1 hour.

	Shape the dough into 60 balls.  Roll them in granulated brown sugar 
	and place on ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake in preheated 375 degree 
	oven for 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and press a chocolate kiss on 
	the top of each cookie.  Return to the oven and bake another 2 minutes 
	more.  Cool on racks thoroughly before storing.  Makes 60 cookies.
    

			Peanut Blossoms



1 3/4 C. flour				1/2 c. shortening
1 tsp. baking soda			1/2 c. creamy peanut butter
1/2 tsp. salt				1 egg
1/2 c. sugar				2 tbsp. milk
1/2 c. firmly packed light brown sugar	1 tsp. vanilla extract
48 chocolate kisses

In large mixing bowl, stir in flour, soda and salt.  Add remaining 
ingredients except candy and beat at low speed of mixer, until well
combined, scraping blowl occasionally.  Chill dough 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 .  Roll small amounts of dough into 1" balls. 
Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake 12 minutes or until light 
brown.  Remove from oven and immediately press a chocolate kiss into
each center (the cookie cracks around the edge).  Repeat with remaining
dough.  Makes 4 dozen cookies, about 70 calories each.




    Forgive my ignorance, but I'm intreagued - what is a "Hershey Kiss"?
    
    I've heard of Hershey bars, but not kisses - we don't have anything
    here in the UK that sounds nearly as interesting.!! :-)
    
    Jackie.

 It's a small chocolate roughly in the shape of a teardrop with a flat bottom
that's been sorta squished down. Not sure how else to describe it.

    and comes wrapped in a pice of foil -- aluminum (aka, "silver foil")
    for the plain kiss, gold tinted for the Hershey's kiss with almonds.
    the foil is wrapped so that's it's twisted together at the top
    or pointed end of the kiss and there's a little strip of paper 
    sticking out at the top which says HERSHEY'S KISS in case there
    was any doubt.
    
    :-)
    
    ed

    
    	It looks like a giant chocolate chip, wrapped in foil.
    
        Linda
    
    

    Thanks for explaining, do all your chocolates have such cute sounding
    names?
    
    Now I can find an equivalent here and try out the recipe.
    
    Jackie	

    RE:  .10
    
    Yes, our chocolate processors are clever.  For example, we have the
    Payday candy bar, the Milkyway, Mounds, and the Lifesaver hard candy
    shaped in a ring.  One of our leading chocolate manufacturers is called
    Mars.  Believe it not, this is not some clever ploy.  The Mars 
    family founded and still owned the company.
    
    Then there are all the spinoffs, such as large fabric Hershey's Kisses
    that the kids use as decorative pillows.  
    
    Well, we probably have too many choices, but it forces the
    manufacturers to be ever more ingenious. 
    
    L

    re .11
    
    Yeah; too bad it doesn't force them to use better chocolate!  8^))

    Indeed, I found american chocolates to be somewhat limited in variety,
    and boring in taste...
    
    q
    

    
    
    You need a dose of Pulakos' HAnd Dipped, Erie Pa.
    
    	Their Double Dipped Chocolate coverd nuts(Filberts, Brazils,
    cashews, walnuts, pecans, ...) are delicious. Available in either 
    Milk or Dark chocolate.
    
    
    	Cp
    

    re .-1
    
    Yeah, it seems that there are a lot of small, local places that make
    very good chocolate.  There are a few in this area (Mass) too.  It's
    those national brands that are so awful -- flavored (?) colored grease.
    But on the other hand, not all European brand-name chocolate is
    wonderful either.  I think Cadbury chocolate is very much like Arerican
    chocolate, except maybe even greasier tasting.  But then there's Cote
    d'Or....   8^')

    re: .10
    
    Perugina Baci are "kisses."  The Hershey version was probably
    "inspired" by Perugina.  Perugina is certainly superior chocolate, and
    would make a fantastic cookie!!  (Expensive, though.  I'd only serve
    them to someone I'd actually kiss!)
    
    re: .15
    
    It's been a long time since I was in England, but the Cadbury chocolate
    there was *totally* different from the Cadbury in the US.  I was
    bitterly disappointed when I came back to New England and found that it
    was not the same chocolate at all.  US Cadbury bars are even worse now
    - makes Hershey taste like ambrosia.  (I remember getting Cadbury
    chocolate covered Lorna Doones when I was in London - or some kind of
    shortbread.  They were wonderful!!)
    
    
    Susan

    re -1
    
    It's the Cadbury in England/Ireland that I found to be greasy tasting.
    And yes, it's even worse in the US.  But I also found that even though
    Cadbury was the most common chocolate available in little shops (at
    least in Dublin) there would usually also be some brands of good
    chocolate available too.  And then there were the hand made chocolates
    in Brown Thomas' department store.   Quadruple YUM!
    
    -ellie