Hot Chocolate Cookies are the MOST requested dessert at our parties and cookout outs! This version is what I like to call “Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies”. Just like my Christmas cookies, they’re rich chocolate cookies with melted marshmallows stacked on top with a chocolate glaze drizzle and sprinkles!
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Hot Chocolate cookies will even have non cookies lovers asking for more!
A few years ago I went to our cousins house and she was baking up a few batches of Christmas Hot Chocolate Cookies to take to her friends and neighbors. I fell in love with them and wanted to recreate them at home. I asked for the recipe, took mental notes and set off to create some amazing cookies at home.
They were a hit and I’ve been making them for almost every big holiday since! Even in the summer time people go crazy over these! I made a patriotic version last year for the 4th of July Family Pool Party and they were gone before we were half way through the party! I’ve also made Easter ones, a Valentines Day version and now Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies!
However, these didn’t start off as Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies. I actually make them for my brother and sister in law’s Gender Reveal Party!!
I’m so excited! I already have a sweet niece Savannah from my husband’s side that I’ve mentioned on the blog before but now we’re adding a nephew to my side of the family! I’m so happy and I can’t wait to meet the little bundle of sweetness! Jackson will only be a year older than his baby cousin and I can’t wait to see them grow up together.
I’ll be posting more about the gender reveal because I know a lot of y’all loved the Putters and Pearls gender reveal party we had last year when we had our sweet little J, so I bet y’all will get some good ideas from the party I threw for Adam and Megs too!
So to turn my favorite Hot Chocolate Cookies into Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies (Gender Reveal Party Hot Chocolate Cookies), I made my recipe the same as I always do and I just switched up the sprinkles! It’s that easy to give these cookies a whole new look!
I bought these Cotton Candy Kiss Sprinkles from a shop on Etsy called, Fancy Sprinkles Shop!
I originally bought them to just go on the chocolate cupcakes for the party but I also ended up using them for these cookies. After I made them, even though they were for the gender reveal party, I looked at them and they said, “Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies” to me haha.
So since I have a Unicorn No Churn Ice Cream on the blog already and well because Unicorns are pretty darn awesome, I thought I would present them to y’all as perfectly fabulous Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies!
Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies
PLUS Unicorn looking sprinkles!
**You don’t have to use THESE brands but there are a few that I love and use A LOT**
Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies Recipe
Hot Chocolate Cookies are the MOST requested dessert at our parties and cookout outs! This version is what I like to call "Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies"Just like my Christmas cookies, they're rich chocolate cookies with melted marshmallows stacked on top with a chocolate glaze drizzle and sprinkles!
- Yield: 45 cookies
Ingredients
FOR THE COOKIES:
- 1/2 cup butter, unsalted (1 stick)
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons chocolate extract (or vanilla if you can't find chocolate)
- 135 mini marshmallows (3 per cookie)
FOR THE GLAZE:
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon chocolate extract (or vanilla if you can't find chocolate)
- Sprinkles
Instructions
For The Cookies:
- In a small sauce pan, melt the butter and then whisk in the semi-sweet chocolate chips. Whisk together until the butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips melt into a smooth chocolate sauce.
- Set aside and let cool.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the sugar, eggs and extract together. Mix until well combined.
- Once the chocolate and butter mixture is cooled mix it into the sugar, eggs and extract.
- Slowly whisk the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture.
- Mix until everything is combined. Cover in plastic wrap and place into the fridge for 1 hour.
- Remove dough from the fridge after one hour and preheat oven to 325F.
- Grease 3 cookie sheets (or use the same one over and over). - Line the baking sheet with parchment paper for easy clean up -
- Spoon out about a tablespoon of chilled dough and roll it into a ball. Lay it onto a prepared baking sheet.
- Place about 12-15 cookies onto each baking sheet. Press each cookie down a little bit.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven. Top each cookie with three mini marshmallows. Place back into the oven for 2 - 3 minutes.
- Remove cookies from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Repeat until all cookies are done.
- Let cookies cool and make the chocolate glaze.
For the GLAZE:
- In a medium bowl, combine the melted butter, cocoa powder, hot water and chocolate extract (or vanilla extract).
- Slowly whisk in the powdered sugar until everything is combined.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper under the cooling rack that is holding the cooled cookies. (This will make for easy clean up!)
- Drizzle each cookie with the chocolate glaze, covering the marshmallows. While the chocolate glaze is wet, sprinkle each cookie with the sprinkles.
- Let Cookies and Chocolate glaze set for about 30 minute before serving.
- Keep cookies in an air tight container.
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Miz Helen says
June 12, 2018 at 12:41 pmWe will just love your Unicorn Hot Chocolate Cookies, delicious! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen