Hi, there! Remember me? Pink? Fluffy?
It’s been a crazy last few weeks, between preparing Freakin’ Flamingo samples for the swag bags at Eat, Write, Retreat (#EWR11), making more jam (because it seems that everything’s in season right now!), and organizing (and baking for) the National Food Bloggers Bake Sale – Miami, benefiting Share Our Strength.
In the middle of all this, I also decided to join up with The Secret Recipe Club, created by Amanda of Amanda’s Cookin’. This is how it works: Every month, you get to scour the blog of another member of the club (assigned to you by Amanda), and pick out and cook or bake any recipe from that person’s blog. And of course, it’s a Secret. Until the big reveal, that is.
My secret mission, this month, was to select a recipe from Kate’s isn’t everything in the kitchen trial & error? (Great blog name, don’t you think?) So I scoured Kate’s blog, literally from the very beginning, searching for a great Bake Sale cookie. You know – chocolate chip, but not so, well, ordinary. Then, just two weeks ago, Kate posted these Hot Chocolate Cookies. Instead of using cocoa, the recipe calls for using full-sugar hot cocoa mix, which gives the cookies a milder, yet rich and chocolatey depth of flavor.
I didn’t change a thing in this recipe, believe it or not. Kate gives you the choice of which type of chips you feel like using that day, so I used all three – milk chocolate, semi-sweet, and white chocolate chips. ‘Cuz that’s just the kind of girl I am. I used a small scoop, about the size of the large end of a melon baller, and got the full 4 dozen cookies – the perfect amount I was looking for.
The texture was – in my mind – perfect. Crisp and chewy at the same time. As Kate observed in her blog post, they freeze really well, too. And look how pretty they look, all dressed up for the big Bake Sale!
It was really fun, searching through another blogger’s recipe posts for inspiration and a different point of view. Wanna play? Join the Secret Recipe Club here.
Now follow along and see who got who – I can’t wait to see who got me and what they chose to make from my eclectic collection. Will it be a dessert? A main course? A 30-minute family meal? Let’s find out, together!
These look yummy! I haven't had a cookie in so long…your making me want one pretty badly this morning!
The cookies look so crisp and crunchy! Love the cracked and crumbly texture. Lovely.
I bet those sold out ASAP… they look so delicious!
Ooohh, those cookies are going to sell out so fast. All that chocolaty goodness is too good to pass up.
I am so glad you liked the cookies! they're one of my new favorites too!
These look so good! Love the idea of using cocoa mix in cookies – yum! 🙂
Triple chips- yummy! Bet you had no problem selling them!
I love the idea of using packages of hot chocolate in a cookie. It sounds like you have been incredibly busy in a good cause!
Those look delicious! I didn't know you could bake with hot cocoa mix, but it's definitely something I'm going to try.
What a great recipe choice! Hot cocoa, never would have thought of that, brilliant. Thanks so much for playing along!
Love your post Renee, and love the enthusiam you take everything up with. YES, those look pretty, and I admire the stuff you did for the bake sale {saw updates from loads of folk on FB}. Yay for you, and wonderful to see you on SRC! Those cookies are great {like you!} HUGS… it's been a long time. Must catch you on twitter soon!
I bet those worked out great for the bake sale! They look great. Sounds like a good way for me to use up the last bit of hot chocolate that always seems to be leftover after winter.
Can't wait to try out these cookies, I don't have hot cocoa mix on hand this time of year but I'm adding it to my shopping list now! Your cookies look and sound wonderful!
Those cookies look amazing. Great of you to find time between all that's going on.
Lovely bake sale treats! I would surely buy one…or two…or three! 🙂
These look great! Best of luck with the bake sale!!!!
I totally agree with you – i loved going through other bloggers sites in detail looking for recipes. These look delicious. Very Nice!
What a great idea using hot chocolate mix and three different chips for these cookies – great choice for SRC!
What a fun cookie! I bet they were the first thing to go at the bake sale.
can't wait to try and make these! i love hot cocoa, i think these would just be fun! thanks for sharing! an awesome post, as per usual. loves it :)-meg@ http://clutzycooking.blogspot.com
Looks like you picked a fantastic recipe from her blog! I would love a few of these cookies right now.
Yum! Those look great! I'll have to try that with the hot cocoa. Fun to have you (and Kate) in the SRC, it's going to be fun to discover blogs I hadn't seen before.
I absolutely love chocolate and love hot cocoa – and that is much more economical for me, as I'm not one that bakes often enough to justify buying baking cocoa, but I always have hot cocoa on hand. I belong to a recipe club and will definitely add this to my short list of "go to" cookies. Virginia Osborne
Good post. It seems like the triple chip hot cocoa cookies are really hitting off in business. Thank you for sharing your cookies and congrats on your business.
WOW! These look goooooooood!