Christmas 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.
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
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!
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made these last year and i was told, TOLD, to make them again! they are amazingly delish!!!!
thank you for posting them!!!