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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies

August 15, 2017 By The Head Spoon 2 Comments

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Easy recipe for soft and chewy chocolate sugar cookies that are easy to whip up with ingredients that you most likely already have in your cupboard.

If you enjoy chocolate cookies, you should try our Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies, Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies with Toffee, M&M Cookies, Andes Mint Cookies, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies and Rocky Road Cookies.

Chocolate sugar cookies on a red and yellow checked tablecloth.

I found this recipe for chocolate sugar cookies in the "Vanilla Bean Baking Book", by Sarah Kieffer.  I had never combined chocolate with sugar cookies before.   No surprise here, but I love it, and the family did too.

The original recipe calls for using natural (unsweetened) cocoa or mixing half sweetened, half unsweetened.  I prefer the full natural version as the cookies are sweet enough with rolling the dough in sugar.

These are soft chocolate sugar cookies with a subtle chocolate taste  and are delicious with a warm cup of tea.

Chocolate sugar cookies on a checkered tablecloth.

These chocolate sugar cookies are easy to whip up with ingredients that you most likely already have on hand.  You can add extra flavoring if you'd like such as cardamon.  So far, we have stuck with the basic chocolate flavor and have been very happy.  The kids request this recipe quite a bit over more complicated, sticky and gooey type cookies.

Tips:

  1. We prefer using natural cocoa instead of adding sweet cocoa as well.
  2. I make the cookies smaller than the original recipe does, so there's more cookies to go around.  I roll about 2-3T of dough for each cookie.  I usually have about 12 cookies to a pan.
  3. Do not overcook.  Part of the deliciousness of these cookies is how soft and fluffy the turn out.  Add the light dusting of sugar, and oh my goodness, so yummy.

I first made this recipe about 6 months ago, and am finally posting about it. I've made the recipe about 5 times during that time period.  Needless to say, I am now a fan of chocolate drop sugar cookies and am so glad I found this recipe.

School starts next week for my three kiddos and these will be perfect treats to include in the lunch sack.

Enjoy!!

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Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Easy recipe for soft and chewy chocolate sugar cookies that are easy to whip up with ingredients that you most likely already have in your cupboard.
Course cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 30
Calories 131 kcal
Author Five Silver Spoons

Ingredients

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup natural cocoa powder or a combination cocoa powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 1¾ cups sugar plus 1 cup for rolling the cookie dough balls in
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon ground cardamom optional

Instructions

  1. Place the oven rack to the middle position.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  3. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  4. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder (I prefer natural cocoa rather than sweetened), baking soda and salt.
  5. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter on medium until smooth.
  6. Add the 1¾ cups sugar and beat on medium until light and fluffy. This should take about 2-3 minutes to arrive at the "fluffy" light yellow look.
  7. Add the egg and vanilla and beat on medium until combined.
  8. Add the flour mixture and beat on low until just combined.
  9. Place the remaining 1 cup sugar in a medium bowl. Stir in cardamom, if desired.
  10. Form the cookies into balls. The original recipe recommends about ⅓ cup dough for each cookie. I made mine smaller (about 2T).
  11. Roll each ball in the sugar and place cookies on each prepared sheet pan. Bake one sheet at a time 11 to 14 minutes, until the edges have set and the centers are puffed and starting to crackle. I cooked mine for about 11 minutes. Mine were smaller than the recipe called for though, so cooking time was on the shorter side.
  12. Transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack and let the cookies cool completely on the pan.

Recipe Notes

Adapted slightly from "The Vanilla Bean Baking Book", by Sarah Kieffer.

Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 131 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 4g25%
Cholesterol 21mg7%
Sodium 69mg3%
Potassium 33mg1%
Carbohydrates 18g6%
Sugar 11g12%
Protein 1g2%
Calcium 6mg1%
Vitamin A 195IU4%
Iron 0.6mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  1. Stephanie

    September 22, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    Found this on Pinterest. Looks awesome. Never heard of chocolate sugar cookies. My boys love chocolate. Yum! Looks easy too 🙂 thanks for sharing. Your blog pictures look great

    Reply
    • The Head Spoon

      September 22, 2019 at 10:08 pm

      They really are easy and delicious. My kids love finding one of these cookies in their lunchboxes. Very easy to pack for lunch or a picnic. Hope you enjoy them too!
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