Let cool for 4-5 minutes before removing to a rack to cool completely.Flour. All-purpose flour is my preference, but you can substitute wheat flour for a 1:1 substitute. When you take the cookies from the oven, top each warm cookie with a few additional chocolate chips and mallow bits.Place the cookies so they are standing end over end ('tall'-ways), about 2' apart. Portion the dough out by the heaping tablespoonful and roll into an oval / egg shape (instead of a round ball). Preheat the oven to 350☏ and line your cookie sheets with parchment paper.Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for AT LEAST 2 HOURS! Overnight works as well. Scrape down the bowl and gather up the dough. Add the semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the mallow bits.Mix for a minute on medium, scrape down the sides and bottom, and continue mixing until just combined. Dump in the flour/cake mix mixture all at once.Add the vanilla and egg, and mix until just combined. In another large bowl (or the bowl of your stand mixer using the paddle attachment), cream the butter and sugars until fluffy.In a large bowl whisk together the flour, dark chocolate cake mix, baking soda, and salt.Need some other Cookies for Santa recommendations? It’s the best when food does that.Ĭookies that evoke happy memories definitely qualify them as Santa-appropriate. These cookies taste like all of those memories for me. And my mom helping me take the bags OFF my shoes and parking me in front of the fireplace.įollowed by her making me hot cocoa from those little packets of Swiss Miss. But those bags on my shoes hold good memories! Like playing until my cheeks were all rosy and my fingers felt a little bit raw from cold wet snow.

Probably now we’d get reported for bad parenting or something ridiculous. When I say “we all” I mean me and my siblings, a.k.a. Like … we all have memories of my mom tying plastic grocery bags over our shoes so we could go out and play and build a muddy snowman. I get it)īecause of that, when snow strikes, we are WOEFULLY unprepared. (All my Minnesota and Buffalo, NY friends can shoot winter lasers at me now. I live in North Carolina and we don’t really get a ton of snow. And I actually could not think of a better use for them (besides hot cocoa I mean) than Hot Cocoa Cookies. Did you know you can buy those? Like whole jars of them? These cookies taste like a better version of packaged hot cocoa, right down to the mini marshmallows. Hot Cocoa Cookies use dark chocolate box cake mix, but in this case it’s not actually a short cut or a time-saver. In fact, they probably make you MORE of a person. What I’m saying is, prepared ingredients don’t make you any less of a person. I don’t usually make hot cocoa from a packet because I am bratty like that and prefer Bourbon Spiked Hot Chocolate. Snickers Ice Cream cake totally uses Snickers ice cream bars that I bought and unwrapped. Neapolitan Cheesecake Brownies are definitely made with boxed brownie mix. I add powdered pudding mix to Pistachio Pudding Cookies. I’ll start by telling you that I am not above a box mix. Yum.ĬLICK HERE TO PIN THIS RECIPE AND SAVE FOR LATER

These cookies remind me of snow days and packets of hot cocoa mix. Hot Cocoa Cookies start with a cake mix! They are loaded with chocolate flavor and little mallow bits.

Hot cocoa cookies with marshmallow bits