Surprise Cookies

One day last week, our internet was down ALL day.  Thought I was going to go insane (not really).  During that time though, I actually got quite a lot done around the house that needed to be done.  I was also forced to look through some of my cookbooks, rather than play around on the world wide web.  ;)  While thumbing through Martha Stewart’s Cookies book, I stumbled upon some cookies called Surprise Cookies and kept going back to that page.  So I decided to make the cookies. 

I liked the cookies a lot more than I thought I was going to like them.  I ate more of them that I care to admit, here and there over the course of a few days.  The cookies are a perfectly textured soft chocolate cookie.  After a short stint in the oven, a marshmallow is placed on top of the cookie and it is baked for a few more minutes.  Once the cookies are cooled, the tops are frosted with a chocolate frosting to hide the marshmallow—hence the name Surprise.  The marshmallow became more like a filling.  I would even go so far as to say that the cookies were even better the next day.

One of the reasons I decided on the Surprise Cookies was because I had a bag of star shaped marshmallows that were blue, pink and white and wanted to use them.

  I thought it was fun to not know if you’d bite into a pink, blue or white filled surprise.

You can find the recipe for these cookies at Martha Stewart's website.  The only thing I did different from her recipe is use 2% milk instead of whole milk in the cookies and the frosting, I also didn’t use the full amount of milk called for in the frosting recipe.  I just added the milk a tablespoon at a time until the frosting was the consistency I liked.  I really liked this frosting recipe.  It is simply made with melting butter and cocoa together and adding it to powdered sugar and some milk and a little vanilla.  In fact, I liked it so much that I made more and baked a yellow cake to frost it on.  We invited some family over for dessert Sunday night. 

Again, I really liked these cookies and will make them again for sure.

Surprise someone you love with these cookies sometime!