Welcome to the second (and final) week of my Holiday Gift Guide! Be sure to check out all the gift ideas and recipes from last week here.
Today I want to show you some gift items that any kid will love.
If you have kids, or know someone with kids and they are always wanting to help out in the kitchen, then you’ll want to check out these awesome gadgets from Kizmos.
My favorite thing has got to be these nesting measuring cups!
They stack inside of each other, how cute is that?!
But if you asked my kids what their favorite Kizmos was, they would all unanimously say… the Crazy Straws.
We set out to make some cookies using the Kizmos and the kids had a blast.
Especially when it came to eating the cookies and drinking milk….with a crazy straw….
Have you seen these holiday Hershey Kisses that are out right now? They are the Mint Truffles, and come in green foil. They taste like those Andes Mints. Blissful.
So we did the logical thing and stuffed them inside of a sweet chocolate chip cookie.
With my big helpers it was easy. They unwrapped all the chocolates, and measured all the ingredients using their Kizmos kitchen tools. I love it when they help out, and so do they.
To make the cookies just grab a little ball of cookie dough and place a Hershey Kiss on top. Then grab another ball of cookie dough and place it over the Hershey Kiss, and gently pinch the seams of the cookie dough together to enclose the Hershey Kiss.
Once they have cooled you can serve them up with a nice tall glass of milk and a crazy straw.
It’s a delicious chocolate chip cookie with a cool minty surprise right in the center.
And now for the cookies!
Mint Truffle Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup chocolate morsels, mini
- 18 mint truffle Hershey Kisses
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl (or using your stand mixer) combine butter, white sugar, and brown sugar, and beat with an electric mixer until creamy and fluffy. Slowly add the eggs, and vanilla, and continue to mix until combined.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, salt, and baking soda. Slowly add the dry flour ingredients to the wet ingredients, still beating until the cookie dough forms. Add the chocolate chips and fold them into the dough.
- Take a small amount of cookie dough and place it in one hand, top with a mint truffle, and then top with another small amount of cookie dough. Using your hands, carefully cup around the cookie dough to enclose the Hershey Kiss, pinching the sides as you go.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes or until the cookies is done to your liking. Let cool on the cookie sheet for 3 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- These are very large cookies, enjoy!
Nutrition
disclaimer: Kizmos provided me and is providing the winner with a set of neat gadgets to play with. All thoughts and opinions here are my own.
Saturday Morning Roundup – Holiday Gift Guide {Part 1}
S Young
My very most favorite cookie is Snickerdoodle.
Cindy Brickley
I Love snickerdoodles!
Ttrockwood
I love the ny times’ chocolate chip cookie recipe!! Seriously shook my world….
Cori
Old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies are my favorite!
Laura Jacobson
I love chocolate chip the best!!!
Realia M
i love white chocolate cranberry cookies
Valentina
These look amazingly delicious! 🙂
Anisha
Chocolate chip cookies are the best!
Ally
I love shortbread!
Terri
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies!
Shannon
Chocolate Chocolate chip homemade!
KarenH
OMG! Mint and chocolate- how can you go wrong! Yummmm…can’t wait to make these..thanks for the chance to win the cute goodies!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
I love those mint kisses! Any holiday cookie with a kiss is my fav. 🙂
Louis
white chocolate chip cookies
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Elizabeth
Peanut Butter cookies!
stacy
Definitely need to make these!
stacy
And I love no bake cookies!
Stefani
My favorite cookies are snickerdoodles with an over-loaded chocolate chip cookie as a close second. 🙂 Thanks for the great giveaway!
Tammy S
My favorite cookie is probably one with white chocolate chips in it. Snickerdoodles are a close 2nd though.
barbara n
I love oatmeal raisin cookies
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel
Omg, I totally heart these cookies! Those mint kisses are dangerously good–I can never have a bag lying around for no reason or that reason quickly becomes me stuffing my face with mint kisses 🙂
Carrie @ Frugal Foodie Mama
I absolutely love sugar cookies. Especially homemade ones with buttercream frosting & red hots baked in around the holidays. 🙂
Leslie
Peanut blossoms are my fave. Thank you for the fun giveaway.
MaryB
Chewy ginger cookies are my current favorite.
kesha
My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie fresh out of the oven
Nancy
I love oatmean raisin cookies. All are delicious! Would love to win those adoable kitchen helpers, as I have a little helper that would love her own tools!!
Stephanie
I am a sucker for any kind of cookie. I don’t think there is one I don’t like – as long as it is homemade.
Amanda
These look amazing! Perfect addition to my favorite cookie – chocolate chip 🙂
Donnie W
It’s got to be oatmeal chocolate chip cookies because they seem healthy. Plus they’re yummy. These look really yummy too…lol…
Kel
Monster cookies…
amber
my favorite cookies are choc peanutbutter, oatmeal, no bake!!!
Rachel
I love the classic chocolate chip cookie!
Corey @ Family Fresh Meals
I LOVE oatmeal raisin cookies 🙂