Photo mexican hot chocolate cookies by rachel is coconut&lime
It's getting cold outside, huh?
About time to brew up a mug of mexican hot chocolate, and then take things up a notch by adding in some Mexican Hot Chocolate cookies.
These cookies just look so warm and comforting (and chocolatey!)
I'll take a dozen, please!
Grab the recipe! Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies
Photo chocolate ice box cookies by rachel is coconut&lime
This is the great thing about ice box cookies--you can make them ahead, store them, and then whip them out and bake however many you need when guests show up (or when you just crave chocolate).
And these are not just any ice box cookies--they are an intense, rich, dark chocolate that looks so dense and yummy!
Perfect with a tall glass of milk--I love the festive-ness of the colored candy dots!
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Ice Box Cookies
Image by jamieanne
If you've never tried chocolate crinkles, you MUST!
They are a cinch to make, deep, dark and fudgy on the inside and kind of crisp on the outside.
Plus they're so cute, as this photo shows--excellent photography here from Jamie Anne!
A great way to impress folks at the holidays--Last year around Christmas I decided to make some chocolate crinkles--I made the dough, shaped the dough into balls, then put them in the freezer for those "dessert emergency" situations that sometimes pop up when folks are in town for the holidays.
So, whenever someone would say, "Do you have anything sweet in the house?", I could say, "Why yes, give me a few minutes and I'll bring you something yummy."
Then I would pull the chocolate crinkle ball dough from the freezer, roll it in confectioner's sugar, and pop into the oven to bake.
And like 10 minutes later, I was serving fresh from the over chocolate crinkles!
Everyone was in awe...
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Crinkles
Photo: Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies by 3littlemiracles
Oy, check out how gooey delicious looking these are!
The Andes candies are serving as an ingenious frosting (just putting the candy on top of the warm cookie and spreading after it's melted).
I adore choco-mint anything!
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies
Photo: Triple Chocolate Cookies
You would like to taste one of these, wouldn't you?
Actually, I think I can smell them from here (if that is possible!) I mean these are soooooo chocolatey looking that I can almost taste them.
The cruel thing is that the photographer of this gorgeous photo did not list the recipe she used to get these masterful results.
Don't fret though--my team of chocolate researchers have located 2 possible sources of a triple chocolate cookie recipe for us to choose from.
Both recipes are unique, uber chocolatey, and have gotten rave reviews from folks who have made them before--they look to die for!
You might want to try both of these recipes--it gives you an excuse to do some chocolate "research" of your own! ;-)
Grab the recipe(s)!
Epicurious Triple Chocolate Cookies
Bobby Flay Triple Chocolate Cookies
White Chocolate Lime Cookies by Celine S.
Well, these are adorable, so sweet and innocent looking .
I LOVE that these cookies have the unusual white chocolate + lime combo--that flavor combo is perfection!
You don't see cookies like this that often. To me they're subtle, elegant, dainty, refreshing and sophisticated. I can just imagine giving these as a gift to someone special!
Grab the recipe! White Chocolate Lime Cookies
Nigella Lawson's Millionaire's Shortbread, originally uploaded by hannahliesje
Could these look any yummier?
This photo is from Hannah, and she used Nigella Lawson's recipe (looks like they turned out fabulously!).
I've made these before too, and they were DIVINE! (I used Lo's recipe at Bake and Shake)
See that white stuff on top of the bars? That is salt. Yes--SALT!
Words cannot express how delish these are--definitely try them, and I would caution you that when you're making the caramel, don't give up.
You will be stirring until you feel like your arm is about to fall off, but don't stop until you reach carmelville and never ever step away during the caramel cooking process. You've gotta stay on top of it!
You will know when it's time to stop stirring when it has the consistency of..wait for it...caramel!
Seriously, this recipe is not hard at all, but the trickiest part is stirring, stirring, stirring, on and on for 15, 20, perhaps even 30 minutes.
I don't remember how long it was exactly--but I remember I kept on wondering, "When is it gonna happen????" And then it did happen after an extended stirring session.
The shortbread part and the chocolate topping are a cinch to do though.
Grab the recipe! Nigella Lawson's Millionaire's Shortbread
Set your watches now for 3pm. I MEAN IT! Do it!
Imagine these coupled with a grande caramel macchiato and a little whipped cream--that would hit the spot!
Dip in coffee, take a bite, swoon. (I don't know why shortbread makes me feel like a high class Brit for some reason.)
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Shortbread
At first when I saw this photo I thought those were nuts garnishing the cookies, but no--they are pieces of Andes Mints! Yummers!
This cookie is like one of those Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies, except a millions times better. Totally.
See that frosting on top (gotta love a cookie with a frosting)? What this actually is is an Andes Candy placed on top of a warm cookie fresh from the oven. As the mint sits on the cookie, it gets all melty, and then you can spread it like frosting--GENIUS!
These cookies come from Kendra, and she has more delish photos and the recipe at her blog.
Grab the recipe: Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies
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