Wow, this feels good. Not just one new recipe this week, but two!
If you missed my post from yesterday — Chocolate Cake with Whipped Chocolate Frosting – CLICK HERE!
And to see where I have been the last four years — see my post from Monday — Welcome to #Choctoberfest.
I knew one of the recipes I made for #Choctoberfest had to be cookie related. With Christmas approaching, I wanted to try out some new cookie recipes that could be potentials for my Annual Cookie Exchange Party.
This year will be my 3rd year hosting the Cookie Exchange Party. Everyone usually brings 5-6 dozen of 1 style of cookie and then everyone gets to take home an assortment of all the cookies that were brought. It’s been a huge hit the last two years. I have had several friends already asking when the date will be and/or to ensure they are on the invite list.
This is the perfect cookie to make – looks impressive and super easy to make. Plus, you can get the kids to help you unwrap the kisses, push them into the cookies, or even roll the balls of dough in sugar!
The cookie base itself had great flavor by adding both Divine Chocolate Cocoa and the Baking Bar chocolate. I was super impressed with how easy the baking bar chocolate melted in the microwave. I put 2 oz. in a microwave safe bowl and heated for 1 min on 50% power. After the minute, stir.
It was so smooth and I didn’t even have to add anything like oil or milk/cream.
As you know, this week is #Choctoberfest.
#Choctoberfest is an annual recipe-sharing event. I’m joining other food bloggers from around the world to create delicious chocolate recipes. This year, over 70 bloggers are joining together for a week full of chocolate cakes, pies, cookies, puddings, tarts, candies, and more.
I was sponsored by Divine Chocolate. Divine Chocolates sent me some amazing products, like baking bars and cocoa to help create some chocolate goodies for all of you. Even though it is sponsored, all opinions are my own.
If you haven’t heard of Divine Chocolate, they are the ONLY Fairtrade chocolate company in the world that is co-owned by cocoa farmers. Kuapa Kokoo Farmers’ Co-operative in Ghana co-owns Divine Chocolate and receives the largest share of business, which is 44%. Kuapa members receive a fair price for the sale of their cocoa beans and are able to sustain their livelihoods both socially and economically.
Divine Chocolate and Kuapa Kokoo, both led by women, are pioneering progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 5 — this goal aims to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. And, of the 100,000 Kuapa Kokoo farmers who co-own the company, more than a third are women.
Aside from an amazing story and mission, their products are amazing. Their entire line of baking products are Vegan Society Certified and made with the highest quality cocoa for an exquisite melting point, rich consistency, and delicious taste.
In this cookie recipe, I used Divine Cocoa Powder, as well as the Divine Chocolates 55% Cocoa Semi-Sweet Baking Bar.
If you are a fan of the usual peanut blossoms, you will definitely be a fan of this recipe. This is a perfect alternative for those holiday cookie platters. Plus, you can whip up a couple dozen in a short time period!
ENJOY!!
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar, plus additional for rolling cookies
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 2 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted (I used Divine Chocolate 55% Cocoa Semi-Sweet Baking Bar)
- 1¾ cup flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Divine Chocolate Cocoa Powder)
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- 32 Chocolate Kisses
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Add butter and sugar to mixer and beat on medium speed till light and fluffy - around 2 minutes.
- Add in vanilla, egg, and melted chocolate.
- While mixer is on low speed, add cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, and flour. Mix just until ingredients are combined.
- Scoop dough with a cookie scoop or by TBSPfuls and roll in granulated sugar.
- Place cookies on baking sheet. Roughly 12 cookies per cookie sheet.
- Bake 8-9 minutes.
- Immediately when you remove from oven, have chocolate kisses unwrapped and ready to push into the center of each cookie. After 1-2 minutes, remove to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Makes 32 cookies (roughly)
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Love this twist on an old favorite. Adding to my Christmas cookie file.
Love it!! Let me know if you end up making!!
Sweet Dash of Sass does it again! Who doesn’t love double chocolate. Highly recommend this recipe.
So, I wanted to add a new chocolate cookie to my Christmas cookie list this year and these looked good. I made some today and baked a cookie sheet of them after I made the first batch.. because of course I had to try them before I made more batches. ;) Oh man are they good! I made 3 batches and froze most of them with the other cookies I made so they’ll be ready to bake closer to Christmas. They are good with or without the kiss too. Thank you for this awesome recipe!
Thank you so much for the comment! So glad you enjoyed them and hope everyone enjoys just as much for the holidays!!
You are very welcome! They really are very good and very easy to make. The dough is really easy to work with too. Thanks again!