Hot Cocoa Cookies

If you are a chocolate lover you are gonna LOVE these hot cocoa cookies. 🍪  They are a little bit labor intensive but totally worth it in my opinion.

Ingredients:

 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled

1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa or 100% cocoa powder

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. cornstarch

1/2 tsp. salt

8 Tbsp. butter, unsalted

1 cup chocolate chips (you can use milk, semi-sweet or dark)

2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 large eggs, room temperature

3/4 cup brown sugar (light or dark), tightly packed

1/4 cup white sugar

5 marshmallows, cut in half

For the glaze

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

2 1/2 Tbsp. butter, unsalted, melted

2 Tbsp. Dutch process cocoa

1/4 tsp. salt

Combine the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl: flour, dutch cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt. Whisk and set aside. 

In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the chocolate chips and butter. Stir just until ingredients are melted and be careful to watch so chocolate doesn’t burn. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla extract and set aside to cool.

 Using a stand-mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or a hand mixer, beat the eggs and sugars for 3-4 minutes or until thick and pale in color.

 Using spatula stir chocolate/butter mixture until well combined. Add in the flour mixture and fold until combined, avoid over-mixing. Dough will look shiny.

 Chill cookie dough in fridge for at least 10 minutes so batter can thicken and look more like cookie dough. (Chilling the dough will also help the cookies bake up thicker & help prevent spreading). Preheat oven to 350°F while dough chills.

Scoop batter using a cookie scoop so cookies come out even in size and roll into a ball in the palms of your hands. Place on a baking sheet or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.Partially bake the cookies for eight minutes.

While the cookies bake, make the glaze. Combine the powdered sugar with the melted butter, cocoa, and salt. Stir until combined.

Remove the cookies from the oven and press half of a marshmallow, cut side down, into the center. 5 marshmallows, cut in half

 Bake again for 2 additional minutes so the marshmallow can get soft. Remove from the oven and while the cookies are still warm, spoon some of the glaze icing on top of each cookie spreading it around the cookie. Top with festive sprinkles. Allow the cookies to cool on cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!