Hot Chocolate Cookies

If there’s one cookie that feels like winter wrapped up in dessert form, it’s these Hot Chocolate Cookies ☕🍪

Soft, fudgy cookies made from cake mix, topped with gooey marshmallows and finished with a rich chocolate glaze—these are cozy, nostalgic, and dangerously easy to make.

 This is one of those recipes I come back to year after year because it checks all the boxes:

• Minimal ingredients
• Quick prep
• Big payoff
• Perfect for holiday trays, cookie swaps, or a cozy night at home

 Let’s get baking.

Hot Chocolate Cookies

 Ingredients

 For the Cookies

 • 1 package chocolate cake mix

 • 2 eggs

 • 1/4 cup vegetable oil

 Important: Only use these three ingredients—do not follow the ingredients listed on the back of the cake mix box.

 • Large marshmallows, cut in half

 For the Chocolate Icing Glaze

 • 2 cups powdered sugar

 • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

 • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

 • 1/4 cup hot water

 • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

 Optional topping:

 • Sprinkles (holiday, chocolate, or whatever makes you smile)

Instructions

 Make the Cookies

 Preheat your oven to 350°F.

1. In a bowl, mix together the chocolate cake mix, eggs, and vegetable oil until fully combined.
2. Drop spoon-sized balls of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Use the back of a spoon to gently flatten each cookie.
4. Bake for 6 minutes.

 Add the Marshmallows

6. While the cookies bake, cut large marshmallows in half.
7. After 6 minutes, remove cookies from the oven and place one marshmallow half in the center of each cookie, cut side down.
8. Return cookies to the oven and bake for 3 more minutes.

 Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool slightly while you prepare the glaze.

Make the Icing Glaze

 1. In a bowl, mix together:

 • Powdered sugar

 • Melted butter

 • Cocoa powder

 • Hot water

 • Vanilla

 2. Stir until smooth and glossy.

 3. Spoon the glaze over each cookie, letting it drip naturally over the marshmallow.

 4. Top with sprinkles if desired.