Rocky Street Cookies – Sugar Spun Run

These tender and chewy rocky highway cookies are stuffed with crunchy nuts, gooey marshmallows, and melty chocolate chips. My recipe takes lower than half-hour to make with NO mixer or chilling required! Recipe features a how-to video!

Rocky Street Impressed Cookies

Right here’s one thing new so as to add to your recipe e book: rocky highway cookies! These chocolatey, tender, and chewy cookies are packed filled with texture and taste. Impressed by the traditional ice cream, this recipe is just like my rocky highway brownies, however in cookie type.

4 issues to like about this recipe:

• Comes collectively so simply with no chilling or mixer wanted. For these days while you don’t have the persistence to attend for such issues.
• Tons of texture from the add-ins (chewy-gooey mini marshmallows, crunchy almonds, and melty chocolate chips).
• Comfortable and chewy base with a wealthy, chocolatey taste (because of one among my favourite methods of blooming the cocoa powderwith the melted butter).
• Lower than half-hour to make! Once more, persistence isn’t precisely my strongest advantage right here.

Positively save this recipe on your vacation cookie tray–it’s positive to be a success! I can’t wait to listen to how you want them.

What You Want

You will want fairly a number of elements to make these cookies, however none of them are difficult or onerous to search out. Simply seize a number of pantry staples and a few enjoyable add-ins, and also you’re able to go!

• Melted butter. Like my final chocolate cookies, this recipe begins with melted butter. We’ll add the cocoa (and prompt espresso, in the event you plan to make use of it) whereas the butter continues to be heat to assist develop the flavour of the cocoa. Simply make sure that to let the butter cool fully earlier than you add the sugars, or you would soften them. 
• Cocoa powder. When you might technically use both pure or Dutch course of cocoa since we’re utilizing each baking powder and baking soda, I desire to stay with pure cocoa powder right here. Dutch course of tends to have a darker taste which may overpower the opposite flavors we are attempting to seize right here.
• Brown sugar. You need to use both mild brown sugar or a mixture of mild and darkish brown sugar. Utilizing all darkish brown sugar will give the cookies a richer, deeper taste (on account of the truth that it accommodates increased ranges of molasses than its mild counterpart). Don’t have both available? Make your individual by following my tutorial on how you can make brown sugar!
• Egg + egg yolk. Including an additional egg yolk encourages these cookies to be tender and chewy, identical to my inside out chocolate chip cookies.
• Sea salt. A sprinkle of sea salt is the proper final touch to those rocky highway cookies. It provides lots of taste, so I like to recommend including it!

SAM’S TIP: Add a half teaspoon of prompt espresso grounds in with the cocoa powder and melted butter! This gained’t make your cookies style like espresso, however it’ll give them a extra chocolatey taste.

Keep in mind, that is simply an summary of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the put up!

Easy methods to Make Rocky Street Cookies

1. Add the cocoa powder and prompt espresso to the melted butter and stir till mixed. Let this combination sit till it’s now not heat to the contact, then proceed.
2. Add the sugars, eggs, and vanilla to the cooled butter combination and stir till the batter is uniform.
3. Mix the dry elements in a separate bowl, then progressively add them to the moist elements.
4. Stir within the add-ins: simply 1 cup of the mini chocolate chips, the entire almonds, and the entire mini marshmallows. We’ll use the remainder of the chocolate chips later.

5. Roll rounded 1 ½ tablespoon scoops of cookie dough into balls, ensuring to cover any uncovered marshmallow bits.
6. Press the tops of every dough ball into the remaining chocolate chips, then place on 2″ aside on parchment lined baking sheets.
7. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes at 350F. They might not appear fully baked by way of, that is really necessary as they’ll end baking on the baking sheet as they cool. For those who take away them from the oven fully baked they’ll really find yourself dry. Inside a minute or two of eradicating from the oven, sprinkle sea salt on prime.
8. Let the cookies cool fully on their baking sheets earlier than having fun with.

SAM’S TIP: Maybe you’ll keep in mind this tip from my s’mores cookies! When rolling the cookie dough, you could wish to tuck the marshmallows into the dough in order that they aren’t uncovered. For those who don’t, the marshmallows will unfold out of the cookies. That is NOT an issue besides the cookies gained’t look as uniform and fairly.

Often Requested Questions

For those who love all issues rocky highway, strive my rocky highway peanut clusters or Mississippi mud cake subsequent (and keep tuned, I’ve extra ice cream cookies coming)!

Get pleasure from!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video under! For those who do this recipe, make sure you tag me on Instagram, and you can too discover me on YouTube and Facebook

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