Cake Kisses

Cake:
1 box of cake mix (Vanilla or Red Velvet)
Ingredients listed on box
If vanilla, Betty Crocker gel food coloring (can be found with decorative icing supplies in the regular grocery store)

Icing:
4T butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 t vanilla

Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips
Vegetable oil

Mix cake ingredients and add red, yellow, and blue coloring until dark red. Bake in 9X13" pan and allow to cool completely.

Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl for icing. Add cream and vanilla and beat until mixed in well. Crumble cake into icing and use a pastry cutter to cut the icing into the cake crumbs. Continue to mix in until the mixture is soft and moist, and can be formed into shapes.

Form into hershey kiss shapes, and place on a cookie sheet with edges. Place in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Use a large glass liquid measuring cup to make a double boiler. Put the dark chocolate and a couple of tablespoons of oil in the measuring cup, and stir until melted. Cover another cookie sheet with wax paper. Make an assembly line on the stove: heat the chocolate on a burner on the left, put the cooled cakes on the right-hand side burners, and put a warmed bowl and the other cover sheet on the counter to the right. Once the cakes have cooled and the chocolate has melted, pull the measuring cup off the pot, and make the outside is completely dry so no water gets in the chocolate. Pour some chocolate into the warmed bowl. Then methodically pour the chocolate on top of each cake. The chocolate will not want to even cover the cakes, so check to make sure you've gotten all surfaces. When the chocolate on top hardens, pull each cake off the sheet (I used a spatula to get them off and then my fingers for the next part which didn't leave fingerprints), and swirl the bottom in the bowl of chocolate. Place it on the wax paper. You may need to remove some of the cakes before all of them are covered with chocolate so that they don't harden to the first cookie sheet- just do them in batches. If you want, after the kisses are all hardening on the waxed paper, melt some white chocolate or vanilla chips in the measuring cup, and drizzle it on top of the kisses (this helps hide fingerprints if that was a problem).

Cut aluminum foil into roughly 6" squares and wrap with a message of your choice.

Credit: http://vegsf.blogspot.com/2008/02/valentines-day-goodies.html