Kissable Candies Thumbprint Cookies

-Here's a recipe that if you're like kiddie chef, Mindy, you'll sneak some of the special ingredient while you're waiting for the cookies to finish baking.

Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
1-1/3 cups granulated sugar
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup Cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar
1 can (16 oz.) vanilla frosting
Additional powdered sugar
1 cup (8-oz. pkg.) Hershey's Kissables Chocolate Candies

Tools:

• Mixing bowl
• Electric beaters
• Medium bowl
• Cookie sheet
• Wire cooling rack
• Heavy-duty plastic food storage bag
• Rubber spatula
• Cookie spatula

Directions:

1. Beat butter, granulated sugar, egg yolks, milk and vanilla until fluffy. Combine flour, cocoa and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Cover; refrigerate dough about 2 hours or until firm enough to handle.

2. Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease cookie sheet. Shape dough into 1-1/8-inch balls. Roll in powdered sugar; place on prepared cookie sheet. Press thumb in center of each cookie.

3. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack; cool completely.

4. Spoon frosting into heavy-duty resealable plastic food storage bag. Cut off corner of bag about 1/4 inch from point; pipe frosting into thumbprint indentations. Sift additional powdered sugar over filled cookies, if desired. Gently press 3 to 4 candies into each filled cookie.

Yield: About 3-1/2 dozen cookies.

Vanilla Variation: Increase flour to 2-3/4 cups; omit cocoa.