Hot Chocolate Cookies

Getting a KitchenAid for Christmas has turned me into a cookie recipe experimenter.  It takes my most unfavorite part of cookie baking and makes it effortless........ 

It creams the butter to perfection.

No wearing out your stirring arm.  You flip a switch and just stand there.  Or walk away and do something else.

It.  Is.  Amazing. 

So now I want to make cookies all the time.  And one specific recipe on Pinterest caught my eye.

Hot Chocolate Cookies?

Yes, please...........

 Hot Chocolate Cookies

(via Six Sisters' Stuff)

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup + 2 Tablespoons hot chocolate mix (just the powder)
1 cup milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a large mixing bowl, cream together shortening, softened butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs and vanilla.  In a separate bowl, combine baking powder, baking soda, salt, flour and hot chocolate powder.  Add to the butter/sugar mixture and combine.  Fold in chocolate chips.  Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes to avoid cookies from flattening.  After your dough has chilled, drop by rounded tablespoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8 minutes or until set up but the centers are still soft.

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I made these for a Super Bowl shindig last weekend.  

At one point people were shoving them in their pockets.

Kidding.

But they were all gone by halftime.

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