Coconut Macaroon Kisses Recipe
Chewy Coconut Macaroon Kisses are a family favorite cookie with just 90 calories each and can be made using your favorite chocolate Hershey's kiss candy!
Servings: 48
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup butter
- 3 ounces neufchâtel cream cheese
- 3/4 cup Truvia Baking Blend
- 1 egg yolk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 cups sweetened coconut flakes, divided
- 48 Hershey's Kisses, unwrapped
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, cream cheese and Truvia until thoroughly mixed. Beat in egg yolk, almond extract and orange juice.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Gradually add dry flour mixture to butter mixture, and continue mixing until well blended.
- Using a wooden spoon, stir in 3 cups coconut flakes.
- Cover batter and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
- When you are ready to bake the cookies, unwrap kisses and set aside. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Roll dough between palms of hands into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in remaining 2 cups coconut flakes and place on ungreased cookie sheet. (Alternatively line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners for easier cleanup.)
- Bake about 10-12 minutes, or until coconut turns golden brown. Remove cookies from oven and carefully press one kiss into center of each cookie.
- Allow cookies to cool for one minute on cookie sheet before removing to wire rack to cook completely.
- Store leftover cookies in an airtight container.
Notes
Serving size: 1 coconut macaroon kiss cookie
WW Points: 6
Check the WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app.
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 3 PointsPlus (Old plan) I used a combination of milk and special dark chocolate Hershey's kisses to make these cookies. Feel free to use your favorite kisses: milk chocolate, hugs (milk chocolate and white creme candy), special dark chocolate or milk chocolate kisses with almonds. I found that the special dark chocolate kisses tended to melt more than the milk chocolate kisses when placing them on the warm-from-oven cookies. This won't affect the taste, but my alter the look of your cookies. To lighten these cookies up and save about 40 calories per cookie, I substituted light cream cheese for regular and Truvia Baking Blend for the white sugar. You could also replace the sugar with your favorite 0 calorie sweetener, like Swerve, Monkfruit or Stevia in the Raw.
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 3 PointsPlus (Old plan) I used a combination of milk and special dark chocolate Hershey's kisses to make these cookies. Feel free to use your favorite kisses: milk chocolate, hugs (milk chocolate and white creme candy), special dark chocolate or milk chocolate kisses with almonds. I found that the special dark chocolate kisses tended to melt more than the milk chocolate kisses when placing them on the warm-from-oven cookies. This won't affect the taste, but my alter the look of your cookies. To lighten these cookies up and save about 40 calories per cookie, I substituted light cream cheese for regular and Truvia Baking Blend for the white sugar. You could also replace the sugar with your favorite 0 calorie sweetener, like Swerve, Monkfruit or Stevia in the Raw.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 90kcal | Carbohydrates: 10.5g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 10mg | Sodium: 76mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 55IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.2mg