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Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies

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These butter spritz cookies spiced with cinnamon then topped with caramel Hershey’s kisses need to make an appearance on your cookie trays for Christmas.


Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies recipe

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving! I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to hear Christmas music until Thanksgiving has come and gone. Every Sunday after Thanksgiving, I help put up my parents’ Christmas decorations and watch Murray claim ownership of the tree skirt and attempt to fit inside Baby Jesus’ manger. Another Christmas tradition is not counting calories baking a ton of cookies, including ones you don’t see outside of December. Ones like these Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies – buttery spiced cookies that you make with a cookie press then top with a Caramel Hershey’s Kiss.


Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies

What are spritz cookies, you ask? Spritz cookies are those pretty shaped cookies you often see on Christmas cookie trays. You have a special tool called a cookie press that pushes the dough through stencils to make different shapes. You can easily knock out a few dozen spritz cookies in just a few minutes, so they are ideal to make when you need lots of cookies.


Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies

What I love about these cinnamon spritz cookies is they are melt-in-your-mouth buttery goodness spiced with cinnamon. Not to mention the caramel kiss that oozes out over top when you take a bite.


Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies

I am sad to announce that this is the first and last time I’ll be making these cinnamon spritz cookies. You see, I managed to get two dozen in the oven. When I was using the last bit of dough, my cookie press got stuck. After trying to get the dough out, it snapped apart. I thought, ok I’ll just snap it back together. Unfortunately, a piece of plastic was laying on the counter, and the press did not stay together. Boo hiss. I got it as a gift a few years ago, so I’m going to see what the warranty is. Since I don’t have a receipt, I’m not sure what the company would do for me.

Update: I now own an OXO Cookie Press, which I highly recommend since it has yet to break on me.

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Yields 2

Caramel Kiss Cinnamon Spritz Cookies

30 minPrep Time

11 minCook Time

41 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup (4 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 30 Caramel Hershey's Kisses, unwrapped

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375F. Have 3 ungreased cookie sheets ready*.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, and salt.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, sugar, yolk, and vanilla until creamy, about 2-3 minutes. Gradually beat in the flour mixture until well mixed.
  4. Prepare cookie press with desired stencil then fill with dough**. Press cookies about 1 inch apart onto each cookie sheet. Bake until edges are lightly browned, about 8-11 minutes. Immediately place an unwrapped kiss in the center of each cookie and gently press down to attach. Remove cookies to a cooling rack and cool completely.

Notes

If you only have two cookie sheets, bake as directed then let one of the cookie sheets cool for a few minutes before using again.

*If you don't have a cookie press, you can make them like regular thumbprint cookies. Just roll into balls and flatten a little with your thumb before baking.

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Source: Adapted from Land O’ Lakes 5th Annual Holiday Cookies Cookbook

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Giveaway (Closed)

The giveaway is now closed. Ruta was the winner.

Disclosure: I was given a Hershey’s Baking Prize Pack to give away. All photos, opinions, and text are mine. This post also contains Amazon affiliate links, which helps keep my blog running. As always, thank you for your support!

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    • Chocolate bonanza!! I'll try out my first batch of rich, dark chocolate fudge. Then more candies - a Heath brittle, toffee, fruit truffles, caramel turtles. . . Then of course I'll bake a batch of gooey chocolate brownie cookies!
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  2. This season I will be baking cookies and making lots of homemade truffles that I could make with the Hershey ingredients. My favorite and absolute must every year is Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies that I would use the Hershey's cocoa, baking chips, and kisses! :)
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  4. Hi Carla, I will be baking various kinds of cookies. I want to try the new "baking melts" in my favorite no bake recipe. I take vanilla and chocolate wafers and I spread melted milk chocolate over them. To the chocolate wafers I add crushed candy canes, to the vanilla I top with nuts.
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  6. Let see...the baking melts would certainly be used in a cake. The toffee chips are screaming to be used in cookies or a trifle. The chocolate chips would go in fudge. The Kisses chocolates would just go right in my mouth. And the cocoa would be a part of lots of other baked items and even some hot cocoa. Oh, and now I need to get a cookie press so I can make these cookies. I seriously love the combo of cinnamon and chocolate plus the caramel is just a great big bonus!
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  7. Love this recipe Carla! I think it's easier to tell you what I've already made with these items, just this past weekend, lol Chocolate Chip Cookies, Hot Chocolate Mix, Biscotti, Granola, Candy...my list still to make is way too long!
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  8. Of course there'd be chocolate chip cookies, toffee cookies, some fudge and brownies and cake. My family is a family of chocoholics, so it'd be easy to use up the ingredients in holiday goodies! And I'd love wearing the apron the whole time I'd be baking!!!
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  9. Carla, Of course these Caramel Spritz cookies sound delicious and I want to try them for my first time at Spritz Cookies. I will need to purchase a Spritz Press. Anxious to try the Baking Melts, also. Have never used them. I also will make lots of good old regular Chocolate Chip Cookies with the chocolate chips I win. Then I make a No Bake Chocolate Cookie and I can use the Cocoa. The others may just get popped into everyone's mouth!! :-) YUMM! YUMM!
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  10. Your spritz cookies with the caramel kiss are almost too much for me to look at before breakfast. I could eat a plate of these and get a great rush for the day! YUM! what would I make with all that chocolate - chocolate bark, Christmas crinkles, fudge. And of course nothing. Just pour them in a bowl and eat :)
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  18. Ill be baking lots this holiday season- Kiss cookies, banana chocolate chip cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies and so many more!!! And I will have to try these caramel kiss cinnamon spritiz cookies- a sure hit with the family!
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  21. I'll be making Mexican hot chocolate - it's a favorite in our home - as are chocolate chip cookies and, of course, brownies, both with and without nuts.
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  24. I'd make a toffee cheesecake with milk chocolate glaze if I won this chocolicious giveaway! karenreichmann@hotmail.com
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  25. I would make some fudge and some chocolate chip cookies. Maybe even some brownies and chocolate covered peanut clusters! Or maybe I would just eat them straight out of the bag.......:)
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  29. Hi Carla, Your pictures and recipes look amazing- as always! With the Hershey's Kisses, I'd probably make Christmas pretzel hugs (those are such a hit at my house!) and what better way to use cocoa powder than homemade hot cocoa mix to give to friends and family (or save some for myself :P)
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  31. This is *such* a cute giveaway! If I win I'd give most of the stuff to my cousin & Aunt who are Hershey fanatics but I'd save the brickle chips to make brickle for Thom because it would seriously make me wifey o' the year with him. :) If I don't "talk" to you directly before then - I hope your December and Christmas are WONDERFUL!
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  38. I would bake my chocolate chip cookies with the chips, peanut butter blossoms with the kisses and experiment with the rest...or just eat them ;) Denise
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  41. I'll definitely make some peanut butter blossoms and chewy chocolate chip cookies with this prize package. I love Hershey's products and that apron is adorable.
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  42. I will be baking peanut butter kiss cookies with Hershey Kisses and Chocolate Fudge with Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips and Sweetened Condensed Milk.
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  43. Chocolate chip cookies for Santa :), Peanut butter blossoms(using the kisses) Brownies w/Hershey's Baking Melts Chocolates,Toffee oatmeal cookies ahhh i love Christmas goodies :D
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  50. I'd love to make some brownies and some soft chewy chocolate chip cookies. I know they are not very exotic, but they sure do taste good!
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  51. I'll be making tons and tons of cookies to give away as gifts this holiday season. I'm a sucker for the Heath bits, so I'd definitely make some chocolate chip, toffee chip ones!
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  53. My mother-in-law loves my truffles, so I'll use the chocolate for that. It would be fun to try toffee truffles this year too
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  56. I love caramel and cinnamon together. Yum! And as for the Hershey's products, I'd make chocolate toffee pb cookies and try to get them out of the house before devouring them all...
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  57. This year we are doing a cookie decorating party instead of our traditional "cookie swap". Those choc. chips are always the perfect thing for the eyes or buttons on our decorated snowmen. And I have never had anything but trouble with those cookie press gadgets! I am going to try this cinnamon cookie recipe with some pumpkin spice Hershey kisses I have leftover.
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  58. I would definitely make my heavenly chocolate chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate to share with my family! I love chocolate!
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  61. i can just TASTE those toffee pieces in some blondies! of course, we bake tons during the holidays with the kids so this would all get used up quickly :)
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