Peppermint Marshmallow Surprise Cookies
A tender, cakey chocolate cookie topped with a gooey peppermint marshmallow and covered with a rich, fudgy frosting.
This is a holiday version of the Martha Stewart Surprise Cookies I posted about the first year I started blogging. Katrina, Baking and Boys, posted a version with colored marshmallows that I thought was a really fun idea to dress up the Surprise Cookie for holidays.
I’d been on the look out for Christmas colored marshmallows and I stumbled on fun, new peppermint flavored swirl marshmallows. They are a flatter, jumbo marshmallow, so they cover the entire top of the cookie and you get marshmallow in every luscious bite.
These marshmallows would also be fun floating in a glass of hot chocolate, or as a hidden layer in your favorite brownies.
Peppermint Marshmallow Surprise Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 30 peppermint swirl marshmallows
Chocolate Frosting:
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup plus 1 1/2 t. cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup plus 2 T. milk
- 3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add egg, milk, and extracts, and beat until well combined. Add reserved flour mixture; mix on low speed until combined.
- Using a tablespoon or 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop (#40), drop dough onto ungreased baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies begin to spread and become firm, 8 to 10 minutes. (I think next time I’ll only bake them 7 minutes)
- Remove baking sheets from oven, and place a marshmallow, cut-side down, in the center of each cookie, pressing down slightly. Return to oven, and continue baking until marshmallows begins to melt, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting. Spread about 1 tablespoon of frosting over each marshmallow, starting in the center and continuing outward until marshmallow is covered.
Chocolate Frosting:
- Place confectioners’ sugar in a medium bowl. Whisk in butter and cocoa powder. Add milk and vanilla, and whisk until well combined.
Notes
slightly adapted from Martha Stewart
This post is week 7 of my 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies posts. Be sure and check out all of the fabulous cookies the other 12 weeks of Christmas Cookies (and sweets) bakers baked up for this week.
This sounds delicious! I have made Martha’s original version before and they were good, I think peppermint will be even better! I’m in Los Angeles and I went through Walmart, Target, Ralphs and Vons so far and have found every flavor under the sun but peppermint marshmallows lol so I am going to keep looking and if I have to, make my own!
Thanks Maggie. I made them last year and haven’t seen them these year. I hope you can find them 🙂
Great recipe and I added sprinkles on top!
Great idea to add sprinkles and make them more festive. So glad you liked them! Thanks for taking the time to let me know you made them.
This is great idea!
I found the peppermint marshmallows at KMart as well! I’m tinkering with some ideas to make them smaller, more bite sized…
The cookies are in the oven right now! I found the marshmellows at KMart in the holiday candy aisle.
How’d your cookies turn out? You’re the only one I’ve heard from who was able to find the marshmallows. Thanks!
They were too sweet for me but my family loved them! I loved the cookie part, YUM! So when I make them again, I’ll make some without the frosting for me
So glad your family loved them. They are a sweet cookie, especially with the fudgy icing. Thanks!
This cookie recipe came in my email today from MS ~ but I love your twist on this cookie! Thanks for the recipe.
oh my this is where I’ve died and gone to heaven with drooling looking at all those cookies.
Have a great cooking week!
Maggie
http://passionatelyartistic.com
What a fun cookie and a fun surprise. I need to keep my eye out for those marshmallows.
Those are really cute…love the marshmallow surprise.
Now this is a cookie I could certainly sink my teeth into. Love marshmallow and love peppermint and my feelings about chocolate go without saying 😉
Oh my goodness, Barbara. I have had a bag of those marshmallows on my counter for a week now, trying to figure out what to make with them. Just a couple nights ago, I thought up a similar cookie!! Great minds think alike!!
Wow, very inventive cookies! We don’t get marshmallows like that here, will be great for the holiday season.