Peppermint Kiss Cookies

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

Place the sugar cookie mix, softened butter, egg and 1 Tbsp. of flour in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until it forms a soft dough.

Divide the sugar cookie dough in half. Add the peppermint extract to one half. Add a tablespoon of flour to the dough if it is too sticky.

Add a few drops of the red food coloring to the other half of the dough. Mix well, adding more food coloring if necessary, until the dough becomes a nice pink color. Add 1 Tbsp. of flour to the dough if it becomes too sticky.

Pinch off about a teaspoon of the peppermint dough and a teaspoon of the pink dough and stick them together to form a ball. Don't knead the dough - you want to have two distinct sides to the cookies - half pink and half white. Place on cookie sheets lined with Silpat mats.

Bake the kiss cookies in the preheated oven for 10-14 minutes, until the edges start to turn golden brown.

Remove the cookies from the oven, and immediately press an unwrapped Hershey kiss in the center of each cookie. Let the kiss cookies cool completely before serving.

Yield: 24 cookies.