Snickerdoodle Blossoms and a huge sigh of relief

I have to admit, I don't panic often. I am usually in control to the point where I am annoying. I do not like surprises or to be thrown a curve. So when I got an email from my daughter's little league committee yesterday afternoon at 3:20, that everyone was expected to bring a salad or dessert to the picnic the next day at 3:00pm, I admit I panicked. I fell into the dessert category and now I thank my lucky stars I did, because I was able to make these beauties:





These awesome, delicious and simply fantastic cookies comes from Monica, over at Lick the Bowl Good. Her blog is soooo good. I have looked through pretty much the whole thing and yummy is the word that comes to mind. So go visit her if you haven't already, you won't be disappointed and maybe one of her recipes will save you the way it saved me. Monica posted these cookies just the other day and I printed it out to make at a later date, then this email comes and I am thinking what do I have, what can I make and then it hit me, I have these:

Everything I needed was on hand and it promised to make 4-5 dozen. Perfect. Then I had and idea, I decided to break out my favorite mini muffin pan, and bake them in that instead of just a flat cookie. Man, they turned out fantastic, even the husband was duly impressed. Hence, the sigh of relief.

Snickerdoodle Blossoms

1/2 cup wite sugar

1/2 cup packed, brown sugar

1 cup butter, softened

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp salt

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp cinnamon

48 milk chocolate kisses, unwrapped

Heat oven to 375.

Combine 1/2 cup white sugar,brown sugar and butter in large mixing bowl.

Beat at medium speed until creamy. Add egg, vanilla and salt; continue beating until well mixed. Reduce speed to low; and add flour and baking soda. Beat until well mixed.

Shape dough into 1 inch balls. If dough is too soft, refrigerate for 1/2 hour. I reccomend doing that, makes it easier to handle. Combine 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon in a small bowl. Roll dough balls into cinnamon sugar mixture.

Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately press 1 chocolate kiss in center of each cookie and sprinkle remianing cinnamon sugar mixture over them while they are still warm. Remove from sheets; cool completely on a wire rack.

*Instead of the cookie sheets, I put the rolled dough into my mini muffin pan and baked the same amount of time, maybe a few minutes more, took them out, placed choc kiss in and still sprinkled the cinnamon sugar over the top.

*If you do it the way I did, be careful not to make the dough balls too big or it will be hard to get them out of the pan.

The house smelled incredible and the result was so good. It is like having a chocolate kiss surrounded by a snickerdoodle cookie. I cannot thank Monica enough, because she saved me and because there is a new favorite cookie in my house now. This one will even make its way onto my holiday cookie trays, that's how good they are. So wether you do the original version or my version with a little twist, try these and you will see they are "keeper worthy".

C'mon, try one, you know you want to. I hope the other teeball moms will be impressed.