Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies
on Nov 29, 2022, Updated Sep 30, 2024
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Soft and chewy peppermint hot cocoa cookies with rich chocolate flavor—perfect for holiday treats or cozy nights in!
What Makes This Recipe Great
These Peppermint Hot Coco cookies actually came as a recipe make or a glow up if you will. A similar cookie was posted 10 YEARS ago, not sure how I have been cooking and baking on this spot on the internet for that long but here we are still plugging away remaking recipes from a whole decade ago. The original recipe had zero mini marshmallows and that was for sure a Christmas sin. So marshmallows got added some peppermint extract got mixed in and the result is the perfect combination of sweetness that reminds you of the perfect cup of hot coco.
Lots of other Hot Coco cookies have you dipping the cookie in melted chocolate and sprinkling with candy, which is all lovely but makes it extremely hard to package up in your Holiday Christmas boxes. Over the years time has taught me the when building a cookie box you want to make sure cookies can be stacked without the cookie parts falling off or sticking to another cookie. Each both with have around 4-5 cookie kinds its best to be able to stack the same cookies together. This will ensure everyone get a small sampling of each of the cookies without the taste being compromised with another cookies.
Ingredient Information
- All Purpose Flour
- Cocoa Powder
- Brown Sugar
- White Sugar
- Butter
- Eggs
- Salt
- Vanilla Extract
- Peppermint Extract
- Mini Marshmallows
Can I use cacao instead of cocoa?
Yes, you could but the results would not be the same sweetened chocolate cookies. Cacao is not processed the same as even unsweetened coco so it will be slightly less sweet. If you would like to try the cookies with cacao I would suggest adding a touch more sugar in the cookies.
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Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoons peppermint extract
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a bowl stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, stir together butter and both sugars and beat for 3-5 minutes.
- Add in eggs, vanilla, peppermint and cocoa.
- Gradually stir flour mixture into butter mixture and mix until combined.
- Stir chocolate chips and marshmallows and stir to distribute evenly.
- Scoop cookies onto parchment paper lined baking sheets and bake about 10-12 minutes or until the edges look crisp. Enjoy!
I found the cookies got really hard after cooling. I’ll definitely try to make them again with the tips provided because they tasted so yummy.
If they are hard after cooling that usually mean they cooked too long!
Dangerous! Satisfied my chocolate peppermint desires
So they did the job, amazing!
These are so yummy! They have a nice balance of sweet, salty, and minty, and the marshmallows melt into like a caramel. So festive and delicious!
Love this description!! Agree with all of it.
Epic!!!
These were fun to put together AND delicious. They smelled amazing while baking.
Yes, the are such a great cookie!
I’ve made these like 4 times this season for various parties/family/friends and they are an absolute hit!! Adding it to our annual rotation!
Love a hit cookie, that everyone will love!
Loved them and so did my kids and husband! Definitely saving this recipe to use every Christmas !
Amazing!! Love when you find a winning cookie!
I made these for our annual cookie contest and won! So I think these are a huge hit. I rolled the cookies in crushed candy canes for a little extra peppermint taste. Also used gluten free 1 for 1 flour
Congratulations, love the idea of rolling the dough in crushed candy canes!!