Hot Chocolate Cookies Recipe
By Ann
The great taste of warm, comforting hot chocolate in a cookie! These easy to make, rich and delicious hot chocolate cookies will quickly become a family favorite. Bake up a batch tonight!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 Minutes
Ingredients:
● 1 cup Sugar
● 1 large Egg
● ½ cup Crisco
● ½ tsp Salt
● 1½ tsp Vanilla Extract
● ½ cup Hot Chocolate Powder
● ¼ cup milk
● 1¾ cups Flour
● ½ tsp Baking Soda
● 1 cup Marshmallow Bits
Directions:
● Preheat oven to 350°.
● In a large bowl, mix together sugar, egg, Crisco, salt and vanilla extract with a wooden spoon until everything is well combined.
● Add hot chocolate powder and milk; stir until smooth.
● Add flour and baking soda; mix until smooth and no white flour is evident.
● Drop a rounded tablespoon full of hot chocolate cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle on marshmallow bits.
● Bake for 10-12 minutes in a preheated 350° oven.
● Marshmallows should be slightly toasted on top!
● Makes 24 Hot Chocolate Cookies
● To print the Hot Chocolate Cookies recipe click here.
If you would like to know where you can buy marshmallow bits, you can buy them online here,
or (for less money) your local large grocery store or Walmart
will have them. I purchase mine in bulk at a local Amish store (where they also carry Lucky Charm bits!)
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Haley says
These cookies look amazing!!
Ann says
Thanks, Haley!
Ann
Madeleine says
Since I didn’t have any marshmallows, I crushed up some candy canes and mixed the pieces in. Turned out delicious! I’ll definitely be adding this to my repertoire of holiday deserts!
Ann says
That sounds delicious, Madeline. I will have to give it a try!
Ann
Veronica says
Thwse look amazing, I know my kids will love them. Is there anything I can use in place of the Crisco and have them turn out the same?
Lindsay @ The DIY Mommy says
These look so so yummy! Def a must try!
Guest says
If you want to you can replace the crisco with butter but you’ll need half a cup along with one more tablespoon. I did it and it worked really well for me.
Caitlin says
My cookies were very flat. Thoughts?
Christy Gaddis says
I’m glad I’m not the only one. My son and I have tried the recipe twice and both times have ended up with very flat cookies with the marshmallow sunken into the dough. I can’t figure it out.
Ann says
Caitlin, Christy – normally cookies are flat due to butter spreading (that is why you see so many recipes requiring the dough to be chilled – it helps with that butter spread). This recipe using Crisco, so that “should” not apply.
A few other possibilities would be overbeating the dough, placing dough on a hot cookie pan (as opposed to just washed or room temp pan), not measuring accurately (the sugar or the baking soda specifically), or, the oven may not be accurate (you can check with an oven thermometer).
There are a lot of reasons cookies might turn out flat, but the biggest culprit – butter – isn’t found in this recipe.
I am sorry these did not turn out well for either of you.
Ann