Hot Chocolate Cookies

Yield: 10 cookies

• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Cooling Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Bake Believe ® Milk Baking Chips
• ½ cup creamy unsweetened cashew or almond butter
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup Swerve
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• â…› teaspoon baking soda
• â…› teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons water, or more as needed
• 3 Keto friendly marshmallows, like La Nouba, each cut into 4 pieces

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and generously grease with butter.
3. In a large bowl, combine the nut butter and egg until it begins to thicken.
4. Add the Swerve, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and vanilla, then mix until mostly combined.
5. Add the water, a little at a time, until you achieve a thick cake batter consistency.  Add more water, if needed.
6. Spoon 1 tablespoon portions of the cookie batter onto the prepared cookie sheet, placing 1-inch apart.
7. Press a marshmallow piece into the middle of each cookie.
8. Bake the cookies until they have risen and are cracked around the marshmallows.
9. Set aside to cool.
10. Place the 1 cup milk chips in a small bowl and microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring in between, until melted.
11. Transfer the melted milk chips to a piping bag and cut off the tip.
12. Pipe stripes of the melted chips onto the cookies.
13. Enjoy warm or allow to cool, then serve.