Chocolate Crinkle Kisses Cookies

Recipe by Deborah Orlick Levy, MS, RDN

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup Carrington Farms Chocolate Coconut Spread, softened in the microwave, 20 seconds at time until melted
• 1/2 cup Carrington Farms Ghee
1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla
• ** Hershey’s Kisses
• Non stick cookie sheet

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 375*
• In a medium bowl, whisk the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and salt).
• In a mixing bowl, combine the melted coconut spread, sugars and ghee. Cream together for about 3 minutes with a hand mixer. Then add in the vanilla and the egg. Mix well.
• Fold in the dry ingredients until mixed together.
• Using a teaspoon, take a small amount of cookie dough and roll into walnut sized balls. Place on cookie sheet about 4 inches apart.
• Bake for 8 minutes, pull the cookie sheet out, and place a kiss in the center of the cookie (this will create the cracks and crinkles) Put cookie sheet back in oven for another 4 minutes.
• remove from oven and let cool.

** I used dark chocolate Hershey kisses, but any of the different kinds of kisses work well **