Made with hot cocoa mix, these Hot Cocoa Cookies are rich in chocolate flavor and filled with gooey marshmallow deliciousness.
They're a perfect cookie to gift during the Christmas season because they taste delicious and look so appetizing!
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How to Bake Cookies with Mini Marshmallows
In this recipe, it calls for mini marshmallows to be folded into the chocolate cookie mix. I like to add mini marshmallows on top of the cookies after they come out of the oven.
When baking these cookies, push the mini marshmallows into the cookie dough and make sure the cookie dough is covering the marshmallows when placing them on the cookie sheet. This helps prevent the marshmallows from melting and sticking to the baking sheet. Parchment paper is also a great idea in case of any melting!
It gives them a finished look and the kids like pressing the mini marshmallows into the tops of the freshly baked cookies!
Extra chocolate chunks are pressed into the tops of these hot cocoa cookies as well. Pressing the chunks into the hot out-of-oven cookies allows the chocolate to melt down into the cookies and helps make the cookie more chocolatey.
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TIP: To reduce the chance of marshmallows sticking to your cookie sheet and melting, make sure that the marshmallows are not directly touching the cookie sheet. Wrap the chocolate mix around the marshmallows to prevent spills and burning.
Delicious Hot Cocoa Cookies
These cookies taste wonderful dipped in milk! If you prefer to eat these cookies warm, pop them in the microwave for a few seconds to melt the chocolate and soften the cookie.
Just don't overdo it - even 3-5 seconds at a time is enough to warm your marshmallows and melt your chocolate.
Ingredients in Hot Cocoa Cookies
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Eggs
- All-purpose flour
- Baking cocoa
- Hot cocoa mix
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Chocolate chunks
- Mini marshmallows
How to Make Hot Cocoa Cookies
Preheat the oven - Preheat oven to 350° F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Mix the wet ingredients - Beat the unsalted butter and add in the granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix until blended well. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
Combine the dry ingredients - In a separate bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking cocoa, hot cocoa mix, and salt in a bowl.
Make the cookie dough - Slowly add the dry mixture into the butter mixture until blended well. Fold the chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows into the cookie mix.
Scoop the cookie dough - Use a #40 cookie scoop (2 tablespoons dough) to scoop the dough out onto the prepared cookie sheets. Press extra chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows down into the dough before baking.
Bake - Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and let cool. Store in an airtight container.
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Easy Christmas Cookies
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It really makes a platter pop and there's sure to be a cookie for everyone on your list to enjoy!
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📖 Recipe
Hot Cocoa Cookies (Hot Chocolate Cookies)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter - softened, 2 sticks
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ⅔ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- ⅔ cup baking cocoa
- 4 packets of hot cocoa - ½ cup hot cocoa mix
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chunks
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat the unsalted butter and add in the granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix until blended well.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time.
- In a separate bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking cocoa, hot cocoa mix, and salt in a bowl.
- Slowly add the dry mixture into the butter mixture until blended well.
- Fold the chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows into the cookie mix.
- Use a #40 cookie scoop (2 tablespoons dough) to scoop the dough out onto the prepared cookie sheets.
- Press extra chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows down into the dough before baking.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from cookie sheet and let cool.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Susan says
Use 2/3C dark cocoa to get extra dark chocolate cookies. These are so good! The perfect wintertime cookie!
Kim says
It says to use hot cocoa and baking cocoa, but it doesn't say where in the recipe to put the baking cocoa.
Dana says
Thanks for the catch, Kim! It gets mixed in with the dry ingredients. I’ve fixed the directions. 🙂
Patty federico says
What kind of chocolate chunks?
Dana says
I use semisweet chocolate chunks. 🙂
Jan says
Absolutely loved it! Very chocolatey but oh so yum! I reduced both sugars a bit as I don’t like it too sweet and it was perfect with the marshmallows.
Dana says
Glad you enjoyed the recipe Jan!
Brody says
made these today and didn't have hot cocoa in packets, only a container of scoopable powder; that prescribes 3 tablespoons of powder per cup of cocoa, but 12 tbsp seemed excessive. So instead I looked up the amount of powder in a Swiss Miss packet and multiplied that by 4, which amounted to 6 tbsp, and I used that amount. They came out great so I'm commenting to save any future bakers the time and math
TL;DR 4 packets = 6tbsp of powdered hot cocoa
Lynnita says
Can you use sugar free hot chocolate?
Dana says
Sure! I haven't done it but it will probably alter the flavor just a bit.