Soft and Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies are so easy to make. No rolling or cutting the dough! You will love them right out of the oven and even more after they cool.
I’ve been using the same classic sugar cookie recipe for years without fail. It’s a rolled and cut dough recipe but it is tried and true for over 25 years. I wanted to make chocolate sugar cookies but didn’t want to have to chill the dough and cut the cookies from it. That’s where this simple and easy recipe came into play. It’s a new family favorite cookie! That chocolate flavor really comes through.
Chocolate sugar cookies are my last recipe for #ChocolateWeek and I’m a bit sad that it’s over. However, there are so many new recipes from my foodie friends that I won’t be in short supply of chocolate anything! Follow that hashtag to see them all.
What I’m Sharing This Week:
- Monday – Easy Black Forest Bundt Cake
- Wednesday – Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts
- Friday – Soft and Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies (that’s today’s recipe!)
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These chocolate cookies come out so fudgy and chewy that you’ll be making them often. They remind of a fudgy brownie cookie.
I didn’t add sprinkles to the cookies (I actually forgot) but I did roll the dough balls in sugar so that when they are baked they sugar gives the cookie a slight crunch and crisp edges before you hit the chewiness. Sprinkles would be great on these.
It’s the perfect Chocolate Sugar Cookie. Perfect for Valentine’s Day or any special occasion.
How to Store Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months.
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour
- Dutch process unsweetened cocoa powder
- baking soda
- baking powder
- salt
- unsalted butter
- sugar
- large eggs
- vanilla extract
How to Make Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
Step 2
In a medium bowl, combine the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
Step 3
In a large mixing bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until well combined after each addition. Then add the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
A electric hand mixer can be used as well.
Step 4
Add the flour mixture and mix until the dough is well combined. The dough will be thick. Be sure to not overmix the dough. Use a wooden spoon to help it come together if it gets too thick.
Step 5
Using a 1 1/2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop, place dough balls of cookie dough on prepared cookie sheet.
Step 6
Roll each ball in the sugar to coat. Set the balls on the prepared baking sheets. Press down on the tops of the balls slightly.
Step 7
Bake time for the cookies is 8 – 10 minutes; be sure not to overbake. The cookies will be a little puffy when you take them out of the oven but will fall a little as they cool. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on baking sheets for 4-5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Tips, Tricks, and FAQs
- Instead of rolling cookie dough balls in sugar, roll them in nonpareil sprinkles.
- Frost cookies instead of using sugar or sprinkles.
- Great to make for gift-giving.
- Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months.
Other Chocolate Cookies you may Enjoy
Printable Chocolate Sugar Cookie Recipe
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 cup Dutch process unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- extra sugar for rolling the dough balls in
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until well combined after each addition. Then add the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until the dough is well combined. The dough will be thick. Be sure to not overmix the dough. Use a wooden spoon to help it come together if it gets too thick.
- Using a 1 1/2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop, place dough balls of cookie dough on prepared baking sheet.
- Roll each ball in the sugar to coat. Set the balls on the baking sheet. Press down on the tops of the balls slightly.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes; be sure not to overbake. The cookies will be a little puffy when you take them out of the oven but will fall a little as they cool. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on baking sheets for 4-5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Tips, Tricks, and FAQs
- Instead of rolling cookie dough balls in sugar, roll them in nonpareil sprinkles.
- Frost cookies instead of using sugar or sprinkles.
- Great to make for gift-giving.
- Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months.
More Chocolate Recipes
- Baked Donut Recipe from Kathryn’s Kitchen Blog
- Buttermilk Chocolate Cupcakes from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Chocolate Ice cream Soda from Art of Natural Living
- Cookie Dough Fudge from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Crockpot Peanut Clusters from The Fresh Cooky
- Gamberi al Cioccolato from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Mole Wings from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Orange Chocolate Cheesecake Pots from Shockingly Delicious
- Slow Cooker Chocolate Cobbler from Cheese Curd In Paradise
- Soft and Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies from Blogghetti
- Strawberry Cheesecake Bites from Devour Dinner
- Tar Heel Brownie Pie from Palatable Pastime
- Triple Chocolate M&M Giant Heart Cookie from Magical Ingredients
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Love sugar cookies….and chocolate brings them right over the top.
Love scoop and bake cookies! Bet these would make awesome ice cream sandwiches!
Sugar Cookies are the BEST and adding chocolate…YUMMY!
Now I need a cold glass of milk, cause these cookies are going down, fast!
Chocolate sugar cookies? Yeah I’m here for it!
I never make chocolate cookie and I am now questioning my decisions!
My kinda cookie! Perfection! This will win anyone’s heart!
Turning the classic sugar cookie into a chewy chocolate cookie is genius!
Sugar cookies aren’t usually my fave, but with chocolate? I’m totally trying these. They look perfectly delicious!!
Thank you so much for the great recipe. I’m a total chocolate fan!