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Warm and delicious and full of chocolate, these hot chocolate cookies will soon become your families favorite. Hot cocoa in cookie form!
Sometimes a girl’s just got to have her chocolate. I was having a major chocolate craving the other day when I came across this recipe for Hot Chocolate Cookies. I originally found it over at Tasty Kitchen and I knew I had to try it. Curling up on the couch with a book and a steaming mug of hot cocoa is one of my favorite winter time activities.
I love that I can get that same comfort feeling with these hot cocoa cookies. They are crispy on the edges and nice and chewy in the middle, just the way a cookie should be! Eating them warm out of the oven is the best.
I have to admit that usually chocolate is not my first flavor choice. I love chocolate but would choose lemon or a few other flavors first but today it was all about chocolate. And so are these cookies. Four kinds of chocolate – hot chocolate mix, white chocolate chips, semi sweet chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips. Despite all the chocolate involved they are not too chocolaty at all! The hot chocolate mix gives a mild chocolate flavor to the dough, making the cookie taste like a mug of hot chocolate!
Ingredients Needed
- Butter
- Sugar, granulated and brown sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- All Purpose Flour
- Hot Chocolate Mix
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Chocolate Chips, white chocolate, milk chocolate and semi sweet
How to Make Hot Chocolate Cookies
- Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs and vanilla extract and stir to combine.
- Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
- Mix dry ingredients to butter mixture and stir until just combined.
- Add chocolate chips and mix by hand.
- Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
- Scoop dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Top with additional white chocolate chips.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 9-11 minutes.
- Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing.
Tips from leigh Anne
- Don’t over mix the dough when adding flour. Mix just until the ingredients are incorporated. Over mixing gives you tough cookies.
- This cookie dough needs to be chilled before baking to prevent the cookies from spreading. if you chill it longer than 30 minutes it will get hard and you will need to let it sit at room temperature for a few minutes to make it soft enough to scoop.
- Use a cookie scoop to get evenly sized cookies. This insures they will bake evenly.
- Add a few additional chocolate chips to the top of the scooped cookie dough. The white chocolate chips look like little marshmallows floating on top of your hot chocolate cookie.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I make cookie dough ahead of time?
This dough can be kept in the refrigerator for 2-3 days before baking.
How should I store hot chocolate cookies?
After baking, the cookies will keep in an air tight container for 3-5 days.
Can I freeze cookies?
These cookies freeze really well. Freeze the raw dough formed into balls, ready to pull out and bake when that chocolate craving hits. Or you can bake the cookies and then freeze them. You can find all my tips for freezing cookies here.
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Hot Chocolate Cookie
Ingredients
- 1 cups butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup brown sugar packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup hot chocolate mix
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda 1
- 1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips reserve 1/2 cup to top cookies with
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugars together
- Add in eggs and vanilla.
- Combine dry ingredients in another bowl.
- Add dry ingredients into butter mixture. Mix until just combined.
- Stir chips in by hand, reserving 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips to top cookie with
- Scoop dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Top with additional white chocolate chips.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes
- Cool for 5 minutes before removing from baking sheet.
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Alicia says
Made these after dinner and they were a hit- kids said they are the new favorite cookie !