Hot Cocoa Cookies
Winter is the best time of year for hot cocoa, and these Hot Cocoa Cookies are just as good as a warm cup of hot cocoa.
Equipment
- 1 Stand-up mixer
- Cooling racks
- 1 1-2qt saucepan
- Cookie sheets
- 1 Small Cookie scoop optional
- 1 Medium mixing bowl
Ingredients
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter 1 stick
- 12 oz Bag Semisweet Chocolate chips
- 1½ cups Flour
- ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 1½ tsp Vanilla extract
- 1¼ cup light brown sugar packed
- 12 Regular size marshmallows
- 2 bars Hershey Chocolate
Instructions
- In a saucepan melt unsalted butter and semisweet chocolate chips, once melted let cool for 15mins½ cup Unsalted Butter, 12 oz Bag Semisweet Chocolate chips
- In a medium mixing bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Set aside1½ cups Flour, ¼ cup Cocoa Powder, 1½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp salt
- Mix eggs, vanilla, and light brown sugar in standup mixer, add melted chocolate.3 eggs, 1½ tsp Vanilla extract, 1¼ cup light brown sugar
- Remove mixing bowl from standup mixer and fold in flour mixture, to avoid creating a cloud poof.
- Chill for 1hr.
- Preheat oven to 325 °F
- Remove cookie dough from refrigerator and using a small cookie scoop or spoon, place cookie dough on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12mins.
- While cookies are baking cut each marshmallow in half and break apart Hershey chocolate bar so there is a brick of chocolate for each marshmallow.12 Regular size marshmallows, 2 bars Hershey Chocolate
- Take out cookies and place a chocolate brick on each cookie followed by a marshmallow.
- Place back in the oven and bake for an additional 4mins.
- Take out of oven and let cool for 5mins. Place on cooling rack
- Don't forget to add these to the plate of cookies for Santa!
Notes
Top with crushed candy canes for a Peppermint Mocha Cookie.
Nutrition
Serving: 24gCalories: 167kcalCarbohydrates: 22.5gProtein: 2.2gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3.7gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 107mgPotassium: 94mgSugar: 12.8gCalcium: 28mg
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