Chocolate Chip Kisses - Holiday Bake Along
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Needlework and Quilting Pros |
| ILoveToBakeCookies.com CHOCOLATE CHIP KISSES |
| Chocolate Chip Kisses are a little taste of sugar overload for the holidays. I found the recipe in the coupon section of the paper about ten years ago and we’ve made them every year at Christmas since then. Sometimes, if we are feeling especially like we might want to tempt diabetes, we even frost them with leftover frosting from our Christmas cut-out cookies. Decadent. |
| Ingredients |
| 1 bag Hershey’s kisses – they have so many kinds now, this year I’m going to make these with the mint ones! 1 cup butter, softened (No substitutes) 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 t vanilla 2 cups flour 1 cup mini chocolate chips |
| Step by Step |
| Preheat oven to 375. 1) In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, and vanilla until well blended. 2) Add flour, mix a bit with mixer, then finish with your clean hands. 3) As this recipe does not call for eggs, the dough is very dry and the flour is best worked into the dough with your hands. 4) Stir in small chips with a spoon or your hands. 5) Mold 1T of dough around each kiss, covering completely. 6) Shape into balls, place on cookie sheet. 7) Bake 10-12 minutes.  Serve and Enjoy! |
| EvaPaige Quilt Designs |
| EvaPaige Quilt Designs came about because of a random moment of narcissism. Last summer I was a stay at home mom of toddler twins who just happened to love to quilt and play with her own designs. One fateful afternoon in August of 2005 I had a sudden self-appreciating thought as I gazed upon the latest quilt I had recently completed: “It’s better than some of the patterns I have seen in quilt shops.†Three days later I had decided to take my ego trip to the next level and was researching options for self-publishing the pattern, which in late October of 2005 hit the marketplace as “Feelin’ Hot Hot Pinkâ€.
Suddenly I was CEO of my own company (thank God for that minor in Business I accidentally completed in college), which had, after much debate and many rejected names, finally been named after my daughters, Eva and Paige, who were almost three at the time and thankfully still fantastic nappers so that I could be a business woman two hours a day. My goal for my patterns was then and is now fairly simple – I want quilting to be about having a good time, not about worrying over matching seams and perfect points. I design by trial and error, just grabbing some fabric and seeing what I can do to make it look like the pictures I see in my mind, and the resulting quilts reflect that design freedom. My patterns feature fun cutting and piecing techniques, appealing designs, quick construction, and often strive to break a quilting rule or two or make up a new one entirely along the way. I want people to see my patterns hanging in a shop and to be barely able to control their urge to want to get home and dive into their stash and start creating. After buying the pattern, of course. In short, they are “Fun and inspired designs for quilters and quilt loversâ€. Fast forward a little more than a year to October of 2006, and I now have three patterns on the market, two more in production and countless many in my head, three distributors, several custom quiltmaking jobs going at any given time, and one more daughter, Greta, “A tiny little division of EvaPaigeâ€, born in August of 2006. I’ve lost my fantastic nappers, any semblance of appearing to ever clean my home, all free time, and sometimes feel I am losing my mind, but it is all worth it. EvaPaige Quilt Designs has enjoyed growing successes in 2006, and I strive for even bigger successes in 2007, followed by official recognition as a quilt pattern diva by 2010. |
