Description
These Grinch Cookies are festive green sugar cookie cups filled with a Hershey’s Kiss center and topped with a heart-shaped candy sprinkle. Perfect for holiday celebrations, they feature a fun twist on classic sugar cookies with a vibrant green color and a surprise chocolate center.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Dough
- 17.5 ounces sugar cookie mix
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 teaspoon green gel food coloring
Filling and Topping
- 18 Hershey’s kisses, unwrapped
- 18 large heart candy sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat and Prepare Pan: Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly spray a mini muffin pan with baker’s spray or line it with paper cups, then set aside.
- Mix Egg and Food Coloring: In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and green gel food coloring until fully combined, ensuring an even green color throughout the dough.
- Combine Dough Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, use a handheld mixer on low speed to combine the sugar cookie mix, all-purpose flour, unsalted butter, and the egg mixture. Mix for 2 to 3 minutes until the dough is thick and well combined.
- Shape Dough Around Candy: Using a 1½ tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop out dough and flatten each ball into a 3-inch disc. Place a Hershey’s Kiss upright in the center and carefully pull the dough edges around the candy to enclose it, forming a ball.
- Place Dough in Pan and Bake: Arrange the dough balls in the mini muffin tin, keeping the Hershey’s kiss upright. Bake for 12 minutes, ensuring the cookies do not brown but are cooked through in the center.
- Add Sprinkles and Cool: Immediately after baking, place one heart candy sprinkle offset to the right from center on each cookie cup. Let the cookies cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Whisking the egg with the green gel food coloring ensures the color is evenly distributed throughout the dough.
- Keep the Hershey’s kiss candy upright in the dough to create the signature look and proper filling inside the cookie cups.
- Do not overbake; the cookies should not brown but be cooked through to retain softness around the candy center.
- Using a cookie scoop helps provide uniform cookie sizes for even baking.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150 kcal
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg
