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Recipe: S’mores Sugar Cookie Surprise

S’mores Sugar Cookie Surprise

These cookies are a wonderful delight to munch on with family and friends.  It starts with a sugar cookie base, add a some marshmallows and chocolate chips and you get a wonderful S’mores surprise.  The chocolate and marshmallows inside the cookie cause the cookies to expand.  The marshmallows will brown slightly in the oven giving it the perfect toasted marshmallow look and flavor.  These cookies just melt in your mouth.  You can use the Sugar Cookie recipe below or make your favorite one:

Sugar Cookies:

  • 1/3 cup Butter or Margarine
  • 1/3 cup Shortening
  • 3/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour

1.  Beat butter and shortening on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.  Add sugar, baking powder, and a dash of salt.  Beat till combined, scraping the bowl so everything is well blended.  Beat in egg and vanilla.  Gradually add the flour into the mixture.

2.  Scoop the dough into your greased hand, flatten the dough, place several marshmallows and chocolate chips in the middle of the dough.  Pull the dough around the chocolate chips and marshmallows and place seam down onto the baking sheet.  Tip:  If you Cover and chill dough for 1 hour to make it easier to handle when making cookies.

3.  Bake at 375° for 7 to 9 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are firm and light brown.  Cool on rack and enjoy.

Small bowl of miniature marshmallows and chocolate chips

Scoop of sugar cookie dough in oiled hands to help it keep from sticking to your hands

Flatten the Sugar Cookie dough in the palm of your hand

Add 3 or 4 marshmallows and a few chocolate chips then pull the dough around them

Place cookie on the cookie sheet, seam side down.  It is fine if you see a couple of the chocolate chips peeking through.

Stick them in the oven to bake once the cookie sheet is full

Delicious S’mores Sugar Cookie

S’mores Sugar Cookies ready to be eaten!