It’s Day 1 of the Seven days of Sweets for your Sweetheart here at Sweet Treats and More. Hopefully, over the next week you will find the inspiration to create something sweet for that special someone in your life.
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Let’s start off by laying a big soft smooch on ’em, shall we?
A sweet, hazel-nutty kind of smooch. 
Topped with another rich, dark chocolaty kind of kiss
He might just shake at the knees with a dozen of these. So pucker up ladies.
Chocolate-Hazelnut Smooches
Ingredients
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chocolate hazelnut spread (recommended: Nutella)
1/2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup red sprinkles, or red sugar**
1 (9-ounce) package of dark chocolate candy kisses, unwrapped (recommended: Hershey’s)**
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In another medium bowl, place the chocolate hazelnut spread, butter, and both sugars. Using a hand mixer, cream the ingredients together, about 3 minutes.
Add the egg and vanilla and blend until incorporated. Stir in the dry ingredients, just until incorporated.
Shape the cookie dough into walnut-sized balls. Rolls the balls in the red sprinkles or red sugar, pressing to adhere. Place the cookies on a heavy cookie sheet about 4 inches apart. Bake for 8 minutes (I always under-bake my cookies, so took mine out at 6 mins). Remove the cookies from the oven. Quickly place a chocolate kiss in the middle of each cookie. Return the cookies to the oven and bake for another 3 minutes. Cool the cookies on a wire rack.
source: Giada De Laurentis
Kristin @ Nycelife suggested these cookies last week when I was in search for some good Nutella recipes. She suggested using red sprinkles and said dark chocolate kisses is a must. The original recipe uses orange sprinkles and milk chocolate kisses. Thanks Kristin!
Beautiful Cookies Kristy! Can’t wait for the rest of this week.
Anything with chocolate and hazelnut is perfection…
Yum, a cookie like this deserves a big smooch. I have a huge sweet treat linky party going on at my blog until this evening called “Sweets for a Saturday” and I’d like to invite you to come by and link your cookies up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/02/sweets-for-saturday-3.html
@Lisa,
Thanks, I’ll stop on by:)
how cute are these! i LOVE them!
I cant wait to see what else you make this week! I will def join and come up with a sweet treat!!
Nutella, yummm! I love peanut butter blossoms – these look like a great twist!
mmm This look good and they look so cute! Giada always seems to have really good dessert or snack type items. Today, I saw a peanutubtter carmel pound cake that looked to die for x)
Mmmm These sound so delish and look sooo cute!
Oh my, these look so delicious! Anything with Nutella is a WIN WIN for me! And they are gorgeous too!