Day 3 of my 12 Days of Christmas Baking compilation!

We had our first snow of the season this week and as I was sipping a cup of hot cocoa, I thought of how great a cookie with these flavors would be. Who doesn’t like mini marshmallows anyways – nobody!

Ingredients:

• 1¼ cups/2 ½ sticks butter, softened
• ⅔ cup brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup Dutch-processed cocoa
• 4 – 0.73 ounce packets of milk chocolate hot cocoa mix, I used Swiss Miss Classics Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix
• 1 ¼ tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup mini marshmallows

Directions:

1. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, brown and granulated sugars together until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
2. Add eggs and vanilla and beat an additional minute.
3. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, Dutch-processed cocoa, the hot cocoa mixes, the baking soda and the baking powder. Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat just to combine.
4. Fold in the chocolate chips and the mini marshmallows. Chill the dough for about 30 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
6. Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheets, 2 inches apart.
7. Bake for 9-10 minutes until the edges of the cookies are set. Cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes then place the cookies on cooling racks.

Yields 2 dozens.