Chocolate Snowballs aka: Reindeer Poop

These cookies were supposed to be dusted with powdered sugar but the hubby thought it would be better without so now I have cookies that don't look like snowballs but they do look like something else. So we have renamed this cookie to Rudolf Poop....you will see why.....

See what I mean?

Now just an FYI this year since I made over 12 different kinds of cookies I did take a little help from the store in a few recipes, like this one calls for a pre packaged cookie mix but whats nice about that is, it makes it go a little faster and by the time you are done with the recipe you would never know it started out as a pre packaged cookie mix!

Prep time: 1 hour
Start to Finish: 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 60
Temp: 375

Ingredients:

1 pouch (1lb 1.5oz) Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix
Egg and butter called for on cookie mix package
1/4 cup AP flour
1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1/2 cup finely chopped almonds (I could only find slivered and just had to chop them up myself)
1 tsp. almond extract
60 Hershey Kisses, unwrapped of course :) (Next time I think I will use Almond Hershey Kisses)
3/4 cup powdered sugar

1- Heat oven to 375. In a large bowl, stir cookie mix, egg, butter, flour, cocoa, almonds and extract with an electric mixer until soft dough forms.

2- Shape dough into 60 (3/4") balls; wrap each ball around 1 Hershey Kiss. Place on a lined cookie sheet 2" apart.

3- Bake 8-10 minutes. immediately remove from cookie sheet onto cooling racks. Cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Roll cookies in powdered sugar. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. Roll in powdered sugar again. You can also leave them plain without powdered sugar. I would suggest trying 1 cookie before rolling in sugar just to see if they are sweet enough for you.

These were also yummy and store well in a Ziploc bag.