Melinda's Hot Chocolate Cookies

A cup of hot chocolate smothered in fluffy whipped

cream and topped with chocolate shavings

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what could be more perfect on a cold winter day?

Maybe Hot Chocolate Cookies in addition!

I love these adorable dessert plates! 

I am not one who is big on resolutions for the New Year.

Especially if those resolutions involve no sugar or

no treats.

These plates epitomize my motto

"I'd give up dessert...

but I'm no quitter."

I was over at Beauty and Bedlam's Tasty Tuesday.

If you have given up sugar and treats, don't go there,

really!! 

I saw the post entitled Hot Chocolate Cookies.

Melinda at Blue Jeans and Cotton Tees had posted

this tempting recipe including hot chocolate mix

in the cookie batter.

It also had 3 kinds of chips, one cup of each!

Do you know that my mother used to put 1/2 C.

of chocolate chips in the whole batch?  I would

always search for the one with the most chips -

maybe 3!

Two days later I was making a batch.

I think this is my first baking since Christmas.

Ooohh, the house smelled delicious.

Crispy on the outside and soft and filled with chips

on the inside.  (I used Stephen's Gourmet Hot Cocoa -

Milk Chocolate Marshmallow - so I even got little itty bitty

marshmallows in mine.)

Yep!  I'm not a quitter and I don't think you can be either

if you bake up a batch of these.  You will be addicted.

Thanks Melissa!  Go check out her adorable blog

and make some of her great cookies.

Hot Chocolate Cookie Recipe

1 C. (2 sticks) butter - at room temperature

1 C. white sugar

2/3 C. packed brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

3 1/4 C. flour

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 C. hot chocolate mix (or 4 - 1 oz. packets) - not sugar free

1 1/4 tsp. baking soda

1 C. white chocolate chips

1 C. milk chocolate chips

1 C. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugars until smooth.  Beat in the

eggs and vanilla until combined.

In a separate bowl, combine flour,hot chocolate mix,

salt, and baking soda.  Add to wet ingredients slowly

making sure it is all incorporated.

Fold in all 3 kinds of chocolate chips.

(She says to chill the dough 1 hour, but I didn't need to.)

Scoop out on a greased or parchment lined cookie sheet.

Bake for 9-11 minutes.  Let the cookies cool slightly before

removing from the pans.  Cool on wire racks or eat them

"hot and gooey from the oven".

(Of course I followed that last instruction and had mine

hot and gooey from the oven.  I know the flavor

varies when they get cold so I plan on trying a room

temperature one really soon!)

Ok, I tried them both ways and hot from the oven

is the way to go.  My husband even popped the cold

ones back into the oven just long enough to melt the

chips again! 

I will be posting this with

Tasty Tuesday, Foodie Fridays

Sweets for a Saturday

Seasonal Sundays