Hot Cocoa Cake Mix Cookies with Candy Cane
These easy and delicious hot cocoa cake mix cookies with candy cane and marshmallow, will soon become a family favorite! Perfect for the holiday season!
Equipment
- 1 Rolling Pin or meat mallet
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Fuge Cake 13.25 oz size
- 2 Tablespoons Hot cocoa mix or 1 packet
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 12 pieces marshmallows each cut in half
- ⅓ cup chopped baking chocolate melted
- 3 pieces candy canes crushed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degees farenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add cake mix, hot cocoa mix, eggs and oil to a large bowl, and stir until dough forms.
- Using a cookie scoop, drop 12 spoonfuls onto a baking sheet, 2-3 inches apart. Prepare a second baking sheet, or reuse the first one after the first batch is cooked.
- Transfer the baking sheet to the preheated oven (see next steps), and bake for 7 minues.
- While the cookies are baking, cut the marshmallows in half. Also, add the candy canes to a zip top baggy and use a rolling pin or meat mallet to crush them inside the bag.
- After the cookies have baked for 7 minutes, remove from the oven, and place one half of a marchmallow in the center of each cookie. Return to the oven and bake for an additional minute, or until the marshmallow has melted.
- Remove baking sheet from the oven.
- Add the chocolate to a piping bag, and heat in 15 second intervals in the microwave, until melted.
- Snip the end off the piping bag, then drizzle the melted chocolate over the centers of the cookies. Sprinkle the curshed candy can over the melted chocolate drizzle.
Notes
For a moist chewy cookie, be sure to not over bake!
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