Ingredients
1 cup butter or margarine softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup hershey's cocoa
1 cup finely chopped pecans
9 oz hershey's kisses chocolates
1 powdered sugar
Directions
In large bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Stir
together flour and cocoa; add in butter mixture, beating until
blended. Add pecans; beat until well blended. Refrigerate dough about
1 hour or until firm enough to handle. Heat oven to 375 degrees
Fahrenheit. Remove wrappers from chocolate pieces. Mold scant
tablespoon of dough around each chocolate piece, covering completely.
Shape into balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12
minutes or until set. Cool slightly, about 1 minute; remove from
cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Roll in powdered sugar.
Roll in sugar again before serving, if desired. About 4-1/2 dozen
cookies.
Hershey's is a registered trademark of Hershey Foods Corporation.
Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens.
Meal-Master compatible format by: Karen Mintzias
Servings: 54 cookies
Cocoa Kiss Cookies Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beverages; Cookie
The History of Recipes
It is possible to trace the history of meal recipes back into the far past, certainly as far back into recorded history as the ancient Egyptians, and quite possibly further than that. However, generally, these ancient cook books were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe found, according to food historians is a collection of clay tablets in ancient Sumerian describing the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel exhilarated and blissful. Later on, in The time of the roman empire 25BC a man called Apicius created a number of documents detailing recipes prepared by the Romans. In his publication, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and desserts, something that is very familiar to us today. He also informs us how the cooks of his times made use of a wide range of herbs, including some that we all recognise for example thyme, rue and asafoetida. Later, we have a couple of cookery books which date from the fourteenth century : a book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another called `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, these are unconnected to the indian curry that appears on menues today, but instead recipes for the types of food eaten by the upper classes of that period. Later, in the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us a variety of spices and herbs from the East, including coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. These new foods and spices prompted an eruption in recipe books, some of which are now in private collections. During the following few hundred years, the rich families of Wesstern Europe competed to lay on the most exotic banquets, and as a result the best cooks and their collection of recipes could command a high salary. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the 19th century that cookery and recipe publications rose to prominence. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated years of their lives to assembling, verifying, and writing down recipes of the day. By the time we get to the 1900s, cooking publications were highly popular mostly due to increased literacy, more leisure time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Cocoa Kiss Cookies recipe.
