New Recipe Tuesday: Tiva's Chocolate Kisses

First of all, I need to make something very clear: I am not on board with the whole "Tiva" thing. I'm not. And not because I don't think Tony and Ziva would be great together, because they would, but I like the whole UST thing they have going on and a relationship is going to ruin that, so Writers of NCIS hear me out: JUST SAY NO TO TIVA!

Now that that's out of the way...

In celebration of tonight's episode (which, by the way, has been pimped to the max as a "Tiva" episode), I thought a 'Tiva' themed recipe was just what this blog needed.

Tiva's Chocolate Kisses

Ingredients:

1 cup of margarine

1 cup of granulated sugar

1 cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons of vanilla

2 1/2 cups of flour

3/4 cups of cocoa powder

1 teaspoon of baking soda

48 Hershey Kisses, unwrapped

Directions:

1.) In a large mixing bowl, add sugars, margarine, eggs and vanilla, mixing well.

2.) Add flour, cocoa and baking soda, mixing well.

3.) Refrigerate dough and the kisses for 30 minutes.

4.) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

5.) After removing the dough from the fridge, roll into 1 inch balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.

6.) Bake for 7-10 minutes.

7.) Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven, press a kiss into the center of the cookie.

Notes: Originally, this recipe was to be used with the Rolo candies. If you choose to use those candies, instead of pressing them on top, they are supposed to be used inside of the cookie. However, due to the fact that my stupid grocery store didn't have any, I went with the meltaway chocolate Hershey Kisses. At first, I wasn't sure that I would recommend using these kisses because true to their name, they did melt pretty easily, but putting them in the refrigerator really helped with that. This recipe makes about 48 cookies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're so pretty. I wish that I would be able to enjoy one during the episode, but unfortunately, my work apparently does not care that it's Tuesday so I'm going to miss tonight's episode. Luckily, I invested in a Tivo back when I started telling cops were to go, so I can watch at 0100, but it's so not the same. *sigh*