Pumpkin Spice Blossoms

Submitted by ChefMamaBlogger

"A fall twist on a classic peanut butter blossom, utilizing a seasonal candy! The recipe can be found here: http://lobsterandfishsticks.com/2009/11/17/pumpkin-spice-blossoms/"

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 36-48 cookies
• Serves: 36-48

ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon allspice
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 30 -40 hershey's pumpkin spice white chocolate kisses

directions

1. cream sugars, butter and eggs, add pumpkin and blend well.
2. incorporate dry ingredients into mix and chill for 1-2 hours.
3. drop by heaping teaspoons onto un-greased cookie sheets.
4. bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes, where color is just beginning to darken.
5. pull from oven and push a kiss lightly down onto the center of the cookie – don’t press too hard – these kisses melt easily and will adhere to the cookie from the heat of the cookie itself.
6. – do not return to the oven:.
7. transfer to wire racks to cool.

Reviews

[Chef MB]

The comments I got: "Wow, I don't usually like pumpkin, but I love these cookies!" I found they needed 11 minutes in my oven to be "done" enough. I liked the cookie part very much, just not a fan of this flavor of Hershey's Kiss. I think it's too sweet/too white chocolate for me. But the combination is really good.

 

[Linky]

I liked the cookies but the chocolate gave me some problems. I don't even know if those kind of kisses are still available - not in my area at least. So I had some of those disks that you melt in the microwave for dipping pretzels or drizzling over cookies. I tried a whole disk/cookie - too much, didn't melt. I tried 1/2 disk - still didn't melt. So I melted the pumpkin spice flavored chocolate disks in the mic. and just added a blob to the top of each cooke. That worked the best. Everyone who tried them really liked them, and I did too!