Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles: this award-winning recipe is a delicious, fun spin on classic snickerdoodles, with cayenne, cocoa, and baking chocolate kicking up the heat and yum factor. You end up rolling the dough in sugar, cinnamon, cocoa powder, and sea salt, making the flavors bloom with your first bite. They’re equally soft and chewy with a slightly crisp texture. One taste and you’ll know why it won top honors.
Choose Your Hotness
If you like a bit of heat in your baked goods, try these spicy snickerdoodles “as is” or choose your “hotness” by adjusting the cayenne (up or down). I actually added the cayenne because, frankly, I love all things spicy. You can certainly leave it out. Recipe credit goes to Kim Dame who won 1st place in at the L.A. County Fair with this recipe. (Gold Medal Flour, best cookie contest, 2014)
Inspiration, Preparation
Kim’s Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles were inspired by a favorite coffee cream flavor. When she won, Kim shared that in preparation for the recipe contest, she baked a huge variety of cookies. The flavors ranged from coconut to molasses and orange. Her co-workers and friends were the lucky taste testers. They were most wowed by the Mexican Hot Chocolate, and the rest is history.
Bake these Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles. You’ll be wowed as well.
More for Chocolate Lovers
Double Chocolate S’More Sandwich Cookies, another L.A. County Fair winner
Potato Chip Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, another must-make cookie recipe