I love this recipe book that my mother gave me ages ago. It’s a book full of chocolate chip cookie recipes. The book is a compilation of all these chocolate chip cookie recipes that were submitted for a contest to find the best chocolate chip cookie. The winner of the competition is a very fudgy recipe that I use all the time and always get compliments on. This recipe for a chocolate marshmallow cookies is a variation on that winning recipe. The original recipe calls for adding in nuts, like walnuts or pecans. Nuts are a great compliment to a chocolate chip cookie, but I didn’t have any. I did have marshmallows so I added those it. There are so many different things you can add to a good chocolate chip cookie recipe. Perhaps that will be my next “12 days of….” Series, 12 variations on the traditional chocolate chip cookie.
I paired this plate of cookies with a black tea from Lemon Lilly. Black Forest Chaga is the tea I paired with it. I added a bit of milk to give it almost a chocolate milk character only richer in flavour. In general, I find cookies are paired well with a tea with a strong, rich flavour that you can dunk a cookie in, a good black, chai, English Breakfast, nice rich black teas.
Some other possible additions and modifications this recipe for chocolate marshmallow cookies could be,
- Use white chocolate powder, chai powder instead of cocoa powder.
- Instead of chocolate chips add in, Reese piece bits, mini M & M’s, butterscotch chips, chocolate chunks, Hershey kisses.
- Try adding in shaved coconut, dried cranberries, crushed candy cane or mints as a substitute for the original nuts.
So many ways to modify the recipe and all just as good as the original.
Fudgy chocolate chip, marshmallow cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 c flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 c butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1/3 c unsweetened cocoa
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 c marshmallows
- 1 c chocolate chips
Instructions
- Combine flour and baking soda and set aside.
- Cream butter. Add vanilla and sugars and beat until fluffy.
- Beat in egg.
- Beat in cocoa, then milk.
- Mix in dry ingredients just until blended.
- Stir in marshmallows and chocolate chips.
- Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto non-stick or foil lined baking sheets.
- Bake at 350F for 12-13 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool slightly before remvoing from baking sheets.
References
The search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie, Gwen Steege, 1988, Storey Communications, Inc.
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