Soft and chewy rocky road cookies will hit the spot and remind you of your favorite rocky road ice cream. These chocolate cookies are packed with almonds, chocolate chips and marshmallows! You don’t have to chill the dough, this rocky road cookie recipe is ready in 30 minutes!
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time20 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Servings: 15-18 cookies
Author: Beth
Ingredients
1 ½cupsall purpose flour
¼cupnatural unsweetened cocoa powder
½tspbaking soda
½tspsalt
1stickunsalted butter, softened1/2 cup
½cupgranulated sugar
½cupbrown sugar
1largeegg
1tspvanilla extract
½cupsliced almondsbroken into smaller pieces
½cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
To top the cookies:
1cupmini marshmallows, extra sliced almonds and chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. In a mixing bowl, combine the all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and 1/2 cup chocolate chips,
In a separate mixing bowl cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together with a mixer on low.
Add in the egg and vanilla extract, mix again on low. Gently add in the dry ingredients, chocolate chips and sliced almonds, mixing on low or by hand just until combined.
Use a cookie scoop to drop dough balls on a silicone mat lined baking sheet. Press 3-4 mini marshmallows into each cookie and add additional almond pieces and chocolate chips to the outside of the dough balls.
Place the cookies 3 inches apart on a silicone lined baking sheet and bake for 10-13 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before moving to a cooling rack. Bake one cookie sheet at a time.