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Peanut Butter Hugs and Kisses Cookies

1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® peanut butter cookie mix
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon water
1 egg
Sugar
36 Hershey's® Kisses® milk chocolate or Hugs® white and milk chocolate, unwrapped
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1Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, oil, water and egg until dough forms. Shape dough into 36 (1-inch) balls; roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Immediately press 1 milk chocolate candy in center of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely, about 20 minutes. Store cookies in tightly covered container.

Sugar Cookies Decorated X's and O's

1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
1⁄2 of an 18-oz roll refrigerated sugar-cookie dough
Royal Icing (recipe follows)
Red and pink paste or gel food color*
Decorations: tiny heart decors, red and white sprinkles (jimmies), nonpareils and decorating sugars

Heat oven to 350°F. You’ll need 2-in. X and O cookie cutters*, baking sheet(s), 3 qt-size ziptop bags and a small paintbrush. Knead flour into cookie dough until completely blended. Roll out with a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface to 1⁄8 in. thick. Cut out cookies with cutters; reroll and cut scraps. Place about 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 9 to 11 minutes until just beginning to brown around edges. Cool 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. To decorate cookies: Divide Royal Icing among 3 bowls. Tint 1 red, 1 pink and leave other white. Working with 1 color at a time, spoon icing into a ziptop bag. Thin icing in bowls with drops of water until spreadable. Snip tip off a corner of the ziptop bag. Pipe outline on cookies. Let outlines dry about 5 minutes. Dip brush into thinned icing; spread to piped border. While wet, sprinkle some cookies with decorations. Pipe lines or dots of an alternate color onto wet icing on other cookies and pull a toothpick through lines or through dots to make hearts. Let dry at least 2 hours.

ROYAL ICING: In a large bowl, with mixer on low speed, beat 1 lb confectioners’ sugar and 3 Tbsp Just Whites.** Add 6 Tbsp water; beat until blended. Increase mixer speed to high and beat 8 minutes or until icing is very thick and white. Makes 21⁄2 cups



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