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These Hot Cocoa Cookies will be your new favorite holiday cookie! Everyone loves hot cocoa and when you make them into a delicious dessert, people love it! The gooey marshmallow top is so yummy and the sprinkles make it festive.
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Hot Cocoa Cookies
Get your mixer ready and your oven preheated – it’s time to bake cookies!
Ingredients You Will Need:
(full amounts in recipe box below)
For the cookies:
- butter
- semi-sweet chocolate
- flour
- cocoa powder
- baking powder
- salt
- brown sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- large marshmallows
- powdered sugar
- Christmas sprinkles
How To Make Hot Cocoa Cookies
For the cookies:
- In a double boiler, melt the butter and chocolate, stirring frequently. Once melted, set aside to cool
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- In a standing mixer, beat the sugar, eggs and vanilla on low speed until combined.
- Add the cooled chocolate and mix until combined
- Gradually add in the flour ingredients and mix until combined
- Scoop the dough (Will be brownie like texture) into a bowl and cover with foil and place into the fridge for 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop some batter into your hands and roll into a ball
- Place cookies about 2 inches apart
- Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes
- While cookies are baking, cut the marshmallows in half
- Once cookies are baked, place a marshmallow into the center of the cookies and lightly press down
- Place cookies back into the oven for another 2-3 minutes
- Place a wire rack over another cookie sheet to allow the icing to drip off
- Once cookies are done baking let cool for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack while you make the icing
For the icing:
- Combine all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and mix until combined
- If the icing is still to thick, add about 3 tbsp of hot water to it to thin it out
- Using a spoon, spoon some icing onto the marshmallow on the cookie
- Repeat step number 3 onto a few more cookies
- Sprinkle a little bit of sprinkles onto the cookies
- Repeat the last two steps onto the remaining cookies. Remember to only put icing onto a few cookies at a time because the icing will dry fast.
- Once all the cookies have icing and sprinkles ENJOY your Hot Cocoa Cookies!
Hot Cocoa Cookies
These Hot Cocoa Cookies will be your new favorite holiday cookie! Everyone loves hot cocoa and when you make them into a delicious dessert, people love it! The gooey marshmallow top is so yummy and the sprinkles make it festive.
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 1/2 C unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 C nestle semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 1/2 C flour
- 1/4 C hershey cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 C brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 large marshmallows cut in half
For the chocolate icing:
- 2 C powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter melted
- 1/4 C hershey cocoa powder
- 1/4 C hot water
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Christmas sprinkles
Instructions
For the cookies:
- In a double boiler, melt the butter and chocolate, stirring frequently. Once melted, set aside to cool
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- In a standing mixer, beat the sugar, eggs and vanilla on low speed until combined.
- Add the cooled chocolate and mix until combined
- Gradually add in the flour ingredients and mix until combined
- Scoop the dough (Will be brownie like texture) into a bowl and cover with foil and place into the fridge for 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop some batter into your hands and roll into a ball
- Place cookies about 2 inches apart
- Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes
- While cookies are baking, cut the marshmallows in half
- Once cookies are baked, place a marshmallow into the center of the cookies and lightly press down
- Place cookies back into the oven for another 2-3 minutes
- Place a wire rack over another cookie sheet to allow the icing to drip off
- Once cookies are done baking let cool for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack while you make the icing
For the icing:
- Combine all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and mix until combined
- If the icing is still to thick, add about 3 tbsp of hot water to it to thin it out
- Using a spoon, spoon some icing onto the marshmallow on the cookie
- Repeat step number 3 onto a few more cookies
- Sprinkle a little bit of sprinkles onto the cookies
- Repeat the last two steps onto the remaining cookies. Remember to only put icing onto a few cookies at a time because the icing will dry fast.
- Once all the cookies have icing and sprinkles ENJOY!
Nutrition
Calories: 254kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 42mg | Sodium: 43mg | Potassium: 156mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 27g | Vitamin A: 220IU | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 1.6mg
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44 comments on “Christmas Hot Cocoa Cookies”
These turned out great! People started eating them before we made the icing, and they were delicious. We also had some peanut butter chips leftover and made the last bits of the chocolate dough with those chips (no marshmallow) and they were pretty good, too! I think we have a new favorite on our hands with this dough! Thanks.
I made 10 different types of cookies for neighbors and family for Christmas. This one was the best out of all of them! Absolutely delicious!
Cookies taste exactly as they are named, like hot cocoa.