Hot Chocolate Cool Whip Cookies

There's not a lot of back story to these cookies...

I was browsing Pintrest & found a lot of recipes for Cool Whip Cookies. Most of them were strawberry or lemon, but several said you could use any flavor.

As I got looking at what I had in the pantry to use...this is what I did:

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HOT CHOCOLATE COOL WHIP COOKIES

Ingredients:

~ 1 box hot chocolate cake mix (or a light chocolate flavor)
~ 1 8 oz. container Cool Whip (or whipped topping)
~ 1 egg
~ powdered sugar

~ optional 1/2 cup dehydrated mini marshmallows if using light chocolate cake mix



Directions:

* Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

* in a mixing bowl, pour in the cake mix, , the marshmallows (if using), the whipped topping & the egg; mix all together very well

* in a separate bowl (I suggest one with a lid), pour in some powdered sugar

* with a spoon, scoop out about a 1 to 1 & half inch blob of batter & place it in the powdered sugar bowl; cover the batter blob with the powdered sugar

* on a lightly greased or parchment paper-lined cookie sheet, place each powdered blob on the cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart

* place in the oven for about 10-12 minutes (original recipe I used called for 8-10...but 12 worked great for these)

* when time is up, pull the cookies out & allow to rest for about 5 minutes then may CAREFULLY move to cooling rack for a few more minutes; COOKIES WILL BE VERY SOFT



Yield: about 2 dozen

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If you eat them while they are warm...they are SO good!! If you eat them later...they are SO good!

These will probably be the easiest cookies you will ever make! They are soft, light & delicious!

The cake mix I used was a hot chocolate cake mix that already had the marshmallows in it. If you use a light chocolate flavored mix & don't want the marshmallows, then that is fine.

I tested these with strawberry & white chocolate chips. Since it was my first time to mess with the recipe, I made the blobs too big, I was apparently out of powdered sugar & used granulated sugar to coat the cookies with, and I used the 8-10 minute time frame. The cookies came out falling apart, big & piecey...but they tasted like a strawberry milkshake! My hubby couldn't get enough of them! But he said the white chocolate chips weren't needed...I liked 'em, but whatever...

Now the hot chocolate ones have a bit of chocolate milkshake kind of taste when cooled down, too.

Oh! And now that the powdered sugar is in the storable container...you can use it for the other flavors you might want to make...

Now, I may be addicted to making these in all kinds of flavors...I want to try lemon lavender soon...

...did I mention they are very soft?

ENJOY!