My friends over at Krusteaz wanted to make sure that I enjoyed the holiday season by stocking my pantry with delicious cookie mixes and the tools needed to spruce up those boxed mixes. Thank you so much for sending such a wonderful package! I used their snickerdoodle cookie mix to make these cocoa coated snickerdoodles.
They make it as easy as can be. You only need to mix in your own butter and eggs. The sugar/cinnamon mix is already in the box for you, all you need to do is add a tablespoon of cocoa powder to the mix!
I loved the idea of changing up snickerdoodles a little bit (nothing too drastic.. snickerdoodles don’t need improvement!). I think I’ll actually do this to all my snickerdoodles this Christmas. The taste is very subtle, but the appearance of the snickerdoodle is accentuated with darker accents. I’m into that.
Don’t you agree? I made them small, so they can be stuffed into mason jars and given away as Christmas gifts. In this case, my DH will be taking the whole batch to work tomorrow to give out. Everyone needs co-workers. They’re the best cookie eaters!
If you’re in the market for more baking and gifting tips and Krusteaz prizes, a #SpreadCookieJoy Twitter Party will be held on December 14th from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm ET here.
And now for the fun part… Krusteaz is graciously giving one reader a chance to win all of the items pictured above PLUS some! The winner will get two boxes of the following mixes: Shortbread, Gingerbread, Snickerdoodle, Butter Vanilla Sugar and Oatmeal Scotchie; an apron, tote bag, cookie cutters and frosting pen!
All you have to do is enter via the Rafflecopter below. The giveaway ends a week from today (the 11th at midnight), so don’t forget to enter!
Recipe from Krusteaz
Ingredients
- 1 package Krusteaz Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix (1 pouch each cookie mix and cinnamon-sugar topping)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon cocoa (I used Rodelle's dark cocoa powder)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In medium bowl, stir together Krusteaz Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix, butter and egg until dough forms. Set aside. In separate bowl, stir together cinnamon-sugar and cocoa powder. For each cookie, scoop 1 rounded tablespoon dough and place in cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Roll dough gently into balls, coating thoroughly with cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 8-10 minutes.
I was given free product for this post, but the opinions expressed are my own.
I would bake with the gingerbread mix first!
I think I would try the Shortbread Mix first. Thanks for the great giveaway!
YUM!! I would love to bake with the Snickerdoodle mix first!
Snickerdoooooodle!!! xoxo
The snickerdoodles sound the best!
I would make the butter vanilla sugar
I would make gingerbread first!
I love Krusteaz! We will only buy their pancake & waffle mixes. I just tried their fat free cranberry & orange muffin mix a couple weeks ago; my family went gaga over it 🙂
Butter Vanilla Sugar for sure!
I would make the Gingerbread Cookies first!
Oatmeal scotchie – yum!!
I would try the shortbread first~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would bake with Shortbread first.
I would bake the shortbread first.
I would totes bake the oatmeal scotchies first. Mmm!
The oatmeal scotchies would be the first ones I would bake.
I’d make snickerdoodle first
I would jump and make the shortbread cookie mix first!
Butter vanilla sugar