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Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

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  • Prep 60 min
  • Total 60 min
  • Ingredients 7
  • Servings 48
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by Qué Rica Vida Cocina
Updated Jan 13, 2010
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Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 tablet (about 3 oz) Mexican hot chocolate (from 18.6-oz package)
  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)

Directions

  • 1
    Heat oven to 375°F. In small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon; set aside. In 1-quart saucepan, melt butter and hot chocolate tablet over low heat, stirring constantly.
  • 2
    Place cookie mix in large bowl. Stir in melted butter mixture and egg until soft dough forms. Stir in chocolate chips.
  • 3
    Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart.
  • 4
    Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set (do not overbake). Cool 3 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Store covered at room temperature.

Expert Tips

  • tip 1
    Joan Ranzini, Waynesboro, VA, won $500 for this recipe in the 2007 Mix It Up with Betty! Cookie Mix Recipe Contest. More than $10,000 was awarded!
  • tip 2
    Look for the hot chocolate tablets in the Hispanic section of your supermarket.
  • tip 3
    Use a #70 or 1-tablespoon spring-loaded ice cream scoop to make quick work of dropping the cookie dough. Using a scoop also ensures cookies will be the same size and will bake the same length of time.

Nutrition Information

90 Calories, 4 1/2g Total Fat, 0g Protein, 13g Total Carbohydrate, 9g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
90
Calories from Fat
40
Total Fat
4 1/2g
7%
Saturated Fat
2g
10%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
10mg
3%
Sodium
40mg
2%
Potassium
20mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate
13g
4%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
9g
Protein
0g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
0%
0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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