It's almost Valentine's Day! I love this little holiday because I adore all the hearts, the pink & red, the treats, the chocolate, and symbols of love. We can all use more expressions of love and we can all appreciate a little sweet treat!
I've been in the Valentine spirit and trying to spread a little of it through food. These cookies are an example of that. I'm calling them "Valentine Kisses" - essentially, they're soft chocolate cookies with a Hershey's Kiss on top. I first saw this recipe as rainbow kiss cookies from Sally of Sally's Baking Addiction; I spotted them around Christmas and the colorful nonpareil sprinkles caught my eye and I haven't stopped thinking about them.
Since I didn't get a chance to make them over Christmas, I thought I'd make them as a Valentine treat, and simply swapped the rainbow nonpareil sprinkles with pink-and-white ones. You can easily customize these cookies for any holiday/occasion. Sprinkles are versatile and always, always smile-inducing! These cookies are not only fun to look at but really tasty. They are soft and a little fudgy inside, packed with plenty of deep chocolate flavor. The little chocolate Kiss on top makes the cookies what they are (and they are so cute to look at) but they're frankly equally good without it. You'd just have to rename them from "kisses" to "bon bons" or something.
I could not resist making them in their original rainbow version as well. They really make me smile!
Whatever sprinkles you roll these kiss cookies in, I think they're bound to make you smile and remind you of the joy of chocolate (not that anyone needs a reminder of that)!
