Hot Chocolate Cookies

The Hot Chocolate Cookies are soft and delicious! Enjoy the creamy taste of hot chocolate in cookie form! These cookies are made with hot chocolate mix right in the dough! Each cookie is loaded with chocolate chips and mini marshmallows to complete the cookie. Just like hot chocolate these Hot Chocolate Cookies are perfect for any chilly day!

But really perfect for any time of the year!

I love having homemade cookies in the cookie jar. For a sweet treat or a little snack for the kids. These have become my kiddos favorite cookies. They love hot chocolate and love it in cookie form also!

These cookies are really easy to make. The dough is a basic cookie dough and hot chocolate mix is simply added into it. They aren't overly chocolatey but just the right amount for that hot chocolate taste!

Use chocolate chip or chocolate chunks. I used a combination of regular chocolate chips and also the mini ones.

When it comes to the hot chocolate, use any brand you'd like. I used the Swiss Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows. You add the packets directly into the cookie mix.

Scoop out your cookie dough out on the pan. I love using my Small Scoop for scooping out the right amount of dough for baking up cookies.

Top the cookies with a few more Mallow Bits. Either use these Mallow Bits or the dehydrated marshmallows that are in the hot chocolate mix.

After they are baked, let them cool on a wire rack.

Enjoy the mild, but delicious hot chocolate flavor with the super soft centers and slightly crisp edges. Yummy hot chocolate in cookie form, Hot Chocolate Cookies.

Hot Chocolate Cookies

PRINTABLE RECIPE HERE

Ingredients for Hot Chocolate Cookies

1 cup butter, softened 

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla 

3 1/4 cups flour

4 packages hot chocolate mix with mini marshmallows (reserve the mini marshmallows for later)

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup Mallow Bits (to top the cookies before baking) 

Directions for Hot Chocolate Cookies

1. Using a stand mixer, mix the butter, sugar, and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Then add the eggs and vanilla and continue to mix until well blended. 

2. Add the flour, hot chocolate packet contents, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and gradually beat the dry ingredients into the butter mixture. 

3. Stir in the chocolate chips 

4. Cover and chil for 30 minutes. 

5. Drop dough on baking sheets 2 inches apart when ready to bake. Top each with the Mallow Bits

6. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Enjoy! 

Other cookie recipes:

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies 

Macarons with Vanilla Buttercream

This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn, Indiana Soybean and Corn Farmers but all thoughts and opinions are my own

Pecan Sandies

Our cookie jar is usually full of a different type of cookie each week! Pecan sandies are one of my favorites, toasty pecan bits combined with a sweet, buttery flavor make up these cookies. A crisp and light cookie that is buttery and loaded with pecans! So good!

These cookies are great for any occasion, to make for a holiday cookie tray, bake sale, or just to fill your cookie jar each week.

Perfect as is straight out of the cookie jar or pair with a glass of milk or cup of tea.

I always like to make a variety of cookies throughout the year, then when the holiday season rolls around, I make them all up at once for cookie trays. These Pecan Sandies will definitely be included!

Pecan Sandies

Ingredients: 
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon Clabber Girl baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, beaten
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Directions:
Mix together the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar then set aside.

In another bowl, using a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars until fluffy.
Then add the vanilla, salt, egg and beat until smooth.

Slowly combine the flour mixture into the liquid mixture. Continue mixing with each flour mixture addition. The dough will be a thick so be sure to add flour mixture a little at a time.

Add the pecans and mix them in with a large spoon.

Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls and lay out on an ungreased baking sheet. Using the end of a cup, flatten each dough ball to about 1/2 inch thick.

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until very lightly browned on the edges. Remove and cool.

PRINTABLE RECIPE HERE


Enjoy these Pecan Sandies anytime of the year!

This post is sponsored by Clabber Girl but my

 thoughts/opinions are always 100% my own