Adventures in Baking - Cherry Chocolate Kiss Cookies

For Valentine's Day I made these cute little cookies. A word of warning - People often see chocolate kisses and think of the chewy peanut butter cookie version. These cookies are a shortbread. They are not oversweet or soft. The recipe also called for marachino cheeries but I chose to use wild dark in syrup - less chemicals.

1. Cream 2 sticks unsalted butter with 1 cup powdered sugar and 1/4 tsp salt.

2. Add 2 tsp cheery juice and syrup from jar and 1/4 tsp almond extract.

3. Incorporate 2 1/4 cups flour in small batches. Add 1/2 cup chopped cherries.

4. Roll dough into 24 balls and space on two greased baking sheets. Put thumb in the middle of each cookie and press until there is a small indentation.

5. Bake for 14 minutes at 325.

6. Immediately top with the chocolate kiss after cooking.