Hershey investigating after cookie bakers complain about tip-less Kisses
The Hershey Company is investigating after a group of expert cookie bakers discovered a problem with the popular Hershey Kisses.
The tips are missing!
These bakers count on a well-formed chocolate Kiss for Christmas cookie mainstays such as peanut butter blossoms, and the cookies simply don’t look as good with a broken chocolate top.
The defect has prompted some bakers to add sanding sugar, white chocolate or sprinkles on top of their peanut butter blossoms to disguise the jagged tops. Other bakers are pushing the Kisses into the dough upside-down.
“I have had luck rounding them off with a warm finger or knife,” one baker wrote on the Wedding Cookie Table Community Facebook page, the group that first identified the defect.
Laura Magone is the administrator of the page, which has 10,000 followers across the country. She told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the problem was first brought up two weeks ago. She estimated three out of every five bags of Kisses sold are missing the traditional curly tips on top.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/12/hershey-investigating-after-cookie-bakers-complain-about-tip-less-kisses.html
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But it's Christmas season and the profits are rolling in!
