Best Hot Chocolate Cookies

My mother found a hot chocolate cookie recipe online, and wrote it down instead of sending it to me. I changed it before I even made the cookies, so it became one of the first recipes (mostly) from my head, and one of her favorites.

I've made these cookies for Christmas parties, Christmas presents for the neighbors, and other Christmas-related things. I'm posting this in January because they aren't just Christmas cookies, and because I'm relieved that Christmas is behind me for the next few months. Now it's birthdays that I need to worry about.

RECIPE
- 1 1/4 cup softened butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/4 cups flour
- 4 packages hot chocolate mix (with mini marshmallows)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat the oven to 350.

Beat the butter and sugars together.

Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter mix.

Combine the next 4 ingredients in a separate bowl and gradually add it to the butter mix. It will probably get stuck in whatever you're using to mix it, but just poke it free.

Use a cookie scooper to drop the dough on a cookie sheet.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes

These cookies are good alone, but they're even better with milk. I would suggest making these for the new year, but since that's already past us, I'll just make them all winter.