Coconut Cherry Chocolate Kiss Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 54
• 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, softened
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup maraschino cherry, chopped
• 14 ounces flaked coconut (5 cups)
• 54 hershey chocolate kisses (9 oz package unwrapped)

Recipe

• 1 to make dough-in large mixer bowl cream butter with the cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 2 add egg yolk and vanilla. beat well.
• 3 combine flour,baking powder and salt.note-a touch of almond extract intensifies cherry flavor.
• 4 gradually add to creamed mixture.
• 5 stir in cherries and 3 cups coconut. cover tightly and chill for 1 hour ,or until firm.
• 6 to bake-shape dough into 1 inch balls.
• 7 roll in coconut.
• 8 place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake 350°f for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
• 10 remove from oven. immediately press 1 kiss in center of each cookie.
• 11 cool 1 minute.
• 12 carefully remove from cookie sheet. cool completely on wire racks.