Rich & Fudgy Hot Cocoa Cookies (No Eggs!)

These ultra decadent hot chocolate cookies are like a cup of hot cocoa and filled with molten chocolate and toasted gooey marshmallows! No eggs, and so easy to make!

The ultimate holiday cookie recipe:

Tis the season to pour a cup of vegan hot cocoa after making a quick and delicious batch of these unbelievably decadent hot chocolate cookies to go with!

Because one can never have too much chocolate, I’m thoroughly convinced 🙂

It’s Day 3 of Cookie Week 2022, and I had to include SOME sort of ultra rich and chocolatey cookie for the season!

We already have:

• Vegan Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
• Vegan Peppermint Meltaways

And now we need something chocolatey for sure. Like my popular vegan double chocolate chip cookies, and vegan chocolate peppermint cookies, these hot cocoa cookies are sure to be a new Christmas Cookie favorite!

These hot cocoa cookies just melt in your mouth with ultra rich and decadent chocolate mixed with gooey marshmallows and a molten yet chewy chocolate cookie center.

And guess what? You don’t even need to chill the cookie dough! These cookies take just 15 minutes to make, start to finish, and are the perfect cookie for your cookie exchange- especially because they don’t even have any eggs nor dairy in them!

What you need:

Grab your aprons, and lets get baking! Here’s what you need for these deliciously decadent no egg hot chocolate cookies:

• Flour: To make these gluten-free if needed, I like to use King Arthur Measure-for-Measure gluten-free flour.
• Cocoa powder: Use a high quality cocoa powder, like Valhrona or Ghiradelli. Cacao powder doesn’t work as well- I notice the cookies don’t spread as much.
• Sugar and brown sugar: I like to use Florida Crystals sugar because it’s certified vegan (no bone char!) and organic.
• Vegan butter: The most important part is that your butter is room temperature– not softened, not melted, but room temperature! This helps the sugar emulsify into the butter and create a fluffy and decadent texture in our hot cocoa cookies! 
• Dairy-free yogurt: I recommend Forager Project cashew milk for an ultra rich texture. Yogurt is a wonderful egg replacement in baking (1/3 cup yogurt = about 1 large egg), and my favorite for cookies!
• High quality chocolate: We’re not only mixing chocolate chips into our hot chocolate cookies, but also stuffing them with a square of chocolate- YUM! I like a high quality vegan chocolate bar, like Pascha Chocolate or Hu Kitchen.
• Vegan marshmallows: Dandies is my absolute favorite marshmallow brand! Mini marshmallows are best here, as big marshmallows will puff up too much and overwhelm the cookie dough. My vegan s’mores cookies, however, use big marshmallow halves, and you could go that route, and skip the chocolate filling!

The biggest tip: DON’T chill the cookie dough!

Making these undetectably vegan hot cocoa cookies is really easy- so easy that you don’t need to chill the cookie dough! In fact, NOT chilling the cookie dough helps these cookies to spread much more easily, especially since they have cocoa powder in them.

Once the cookie dough is made, you’ll immediately scoop the cookie dough, fill it with a square of chocolate, and scoop another piece of cookie dough on top. Roll between your palms, and press a few more marshmallows on top (for good measure 😉 ). 

Then place the cookie dough balls onto your baking sheets, and simply bake the cookies!

How to toast the marshmallows on top:

My favorite part about making these hot cocoa cookies is toasting the marshmallows on top after baking.

I use a culinary kitchen torch, and simply lightly toast the marshmallows, like you would creme brûlée. You can, of course, leave them un-torched. Another trick is to use the broiler for just 1 minute, or else you’ll burn your cookies!

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