lemon kiss cookies for your valentine du jour

These cookies are l-o-v-e-l-y, and ten times more delish than those grocery store chocolates and conversation hearts (since when did they start replacing "HEY CUTIE" with "TEXT U L8R" anyways?).

I failed to take a picture of these, but they were a hit at my mom's retired teacher sorority (how cute is that?) meeting, and you know those women have had their fair share of cookies and chocolates from students over the years.

Here's the recipe/instructions.  Feel free to drop me a line via comment or Facebook with any questions!  I did manage to find a picture of the finished product on another website, so just to give you an idea, they should look something like this when you're finished:

Lemon Kiss Cookies

ingredients:

1 1/2 c. margarine, softened
3/4 c. sugar
1 tbsp lemon extract
2 3/4 flour
hershey's kisses (a bag will be more than enough)
confectioner's sugar
small bag of chocolate chips (you'll need 1/2 to 1 cup total)
1 tbsp shortening

Mix the margarine, sugar, and lemon extract until light & fluffy.  

Add flour, and chill at least 2 hours (you may not want to go much past 2 hours, or the dough will be a bit too hard and will need to soften).

Form the dough around the Hershey's kiss in the shape of a ball.

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

Roll in confectioner's sugar.

Drizzle melted chocolate chips** and shortening


**in our experience, 1 cup of chocolate chips was a little thick.  adding water if it's too thick will make it icky, so I'd recommend starting with half a cup, and adding more if you need to.  if you're looking for a great way to melt the chocolate chips, Michael's has a wonderful chocolate melter (and coupons are valid towards this purchase, just FYI).