Neapolitan Ice Cream Cookie Recipe

One of the highlights of summer for me is the county fair, and I love entering open class competitions with my baking and sewing. So in honor of fair week this year, I'm excited to share with you my highest scoring recipe from last year's fair!  I won a green ribbon with these cookies at the 2022 Woodbury County Fair (better than a blue ribbon!) and I have never seen a recipe for anything like this anywhere, so without further ado, here's how I make Neapolitan Ice Cream Cookies. 

These cookies don't contain any ice cream, but they have the flavors of Neapolitan ice cream in cookie form. Basically, it's a sweet, mild chocolate cookie base, plus Hershey's Hugs for vanilla and milk chocolate, and Hershey's Strawberry Ice Cream Kisses. By chopping the Hugs and Kisses into small but not too tiny of chunks, you should really get each flavor distinctly in this cookie just like you do from a scoop of iconic Neapolitan ice cream.  

Ingredients

• 12 Strawberry Ice Cream flavor Hershey's Kisses
• 12 Hershey's Hugs
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulate sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

• Prepare candy chunks by unwrapping and chopping into small chunks
• Cream the butter and sugar together
• Add vanilla and eggs
• Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa power
• Add your dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix
• Add candy chunks and mix
• Scoop into rounded tablespoons onto a cookie sheet
• Bake at 350 degrees for 8-12 minutes (10 is perfect in my oven, but ovens and cookie doneness preferences vary!)

And that's all there is to it! I hope you enjoy these cookies as much as my family and I (and the fair judges) do! If you have any questions or run into problems, please ask and I'll try to help if I can. Happy baking, and good luck at the fair if you choose to enter one this year!