Miniature Hot Chocolate Cookies

(November 2016 Update) This post has been updated with new, non-iPhone photos and edited to update some of the text and recipe notes. If you miss the old photography, I saved one of the old photos beneath the recipe to remember the good times. 😉

How is your Christmas prep going? Mine’s going great, if by great, you mean I have bought a grand total of one present and don’t yet have a tree. Fortunately, my family is small and mostly local so the biggest part of holiday planning is coordinating Christmas dinner and deciding what holiday-themed movies to watch this year. I can’t imagine how all of you with huge extended families who travel for the holidays handle it. While I’ve been shirking my holiday prep duties, I have been busy in the kitchen. This week alone, I’ve made a batch of my Chai Sugar Cookies with Eggnog Glaze, Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies, and now these adorable little Hot Chocolate Cookies. I’d been meaning to make these cookies since I first saw them last year, long before Baking Mischief was even a dream of an idea, but Christmas came and went and they got stashed away in my next-year file. So as soon as it got chilly enough for a sweater, I pulled these babies out and gave them a spin. The (gorgeous) originals are huge and use jumbo marshmallows, something I just don’t keep on hand. So I miniaturized them to make them the right size to use the mini marshmallows I had in the pantry, and they turned out so cute!

These things are perfect three-bite cookies, and man, are they RICH. I would never say stop at just one baby cookie, but you totally could. Eaten warm, they are more like the most decadent, chocolatiest brownies you have ever tasted. Cooled, the deep chocolate flavor really pops and the little bite of hard chocolate in the center is perfection. I say eat warm with milk, cool with coffee, because they are definitely best paired with something to offset that sweetness!

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Miniature Hot Chocolate Cookies Recipe Notes

This recipe makes 24 small cookies. If serving to people, I would recommend 3 per person. I generally prefer to make my cookies in a stand mixer, but this is technically a small-batch cookie recipe with about 1/3 the amount of dough you would normally produce and requires no creaming of any ingredients. I’ve made it both ways and it’s simpler just to make in a bowl with a whisk.

Nutritional Information Adapted from Stepable