I’ve been wanting to make chocolate sugar cookies for awhile.
But not just any sugar cookies because I don’t even really like sugar cookies.
Sugar cookies are usually too crispy, crunchy, and dry. Those adjectives don’t belong with cookies.
These cookies are moist, soft, and chewy. And thick. So you can really sink your teeth into them.
And I didn’t want white-sugar sugar cookies. Way too boring.
So I made them dark in two ways. With dark cocoa powder and dark brown sugar.
If you don’t have dark cocoa powder and run into snags trying to find it like I did for over two years, order it to save time and a headache. Or use regular unsweetened natural cocoa powder. Your cookies just won’t be as dark.
I tested and wrote the recipe with dark brown sugar rather than light, and recommend it. If all you have is light brown sugar, you can make dark brown sugar by stirring in about 1 or 2 teaspoons of molasses into the 3/4 cup dark brown sugar. It’s not a perfect conversion, but it’ll work.
The recipe has a very short ingredients list and the batch size is small, only making about 15 cookies.
The dough comes together in no time. Make sure to chill it before baking so your cookies bake up thick. Baking with unchilled, warm dough will result in thinner, flatter cookies.
Although they’re thick, the cookies stay soft from using cornstarch. I have written about cornstarch so many times and why I love it. It’s my secret weapon for creating super soft cookies that stay soft, but not cakey.
They’re fudgy, rich, intensely chocolaty, and not overly sweet.
I try to judge a cookie overall by the quality of the dough. These aren’t loaded up with add-ins, candy, chocolate chips or chunks, or anything else. Just boldly chocolaty dough.
Cookies with Reese’s Pieces and M&M’s are destined to be good. It’s what you get when you strip that all away and focus on the dough, sans fillers. And these cookies deliver.
They’re the cookies I recommend for bad days, PMS days, or when the chocolate monster is calling your name and nothing else will do.
I imagine some people would like to wash these down with a big glass of milk or a cup of coffee. I recommend red wine, Homemade Baileys, or champagne. It’s a holiday week, after all.
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Dark Chocolate Dark Brown Sugar Cookies
These cookies are the dark ode to sugar cookies. They’re rich, fudgy, intensely chocolaty, soft, and chewy. Both dark cocoa powder and dark brown sugar add depth of flavor, richness, and these not-too-sweet cookies are perfect for serious chocaholics. Pour a glass of milk, cup of coffee, or glass of red wine and enjoy an uber-thick and dense cookie.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed (I have not tried using light brown sugar)
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened natural dark cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s Special Dark; regular cocoa powder or Dutch-processed may be substituted)
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
Instructions
- To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until well-creamed, light and fluffy, about 5 minutes (or use an electric hand mixer and beat for at least 7 minutes).
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the remaining ingredients and mix on low speedy until just combined, about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Using a medium 2-inch cookie scoop, form heaping 2-tablespoon mounds (I made 15). Place mounds on a large plate, flatten mounds slightly, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or up to 5 days, before baking. Do not bake with warm dough because cookies will spread and bake thinner and flatter.
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mat or spray with cooking spray and place mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart although they don’t spread much. I bake 8 cookies per sheet.
- Bake for 8 to 9 minutes, or until edges have set and tops are just beginning to set. It’s hard to tell with dark cookies when they’re done, but do not bake longer than 10 minutes as cookies will firm up as they cool; baking longer causes cookies to set up too crunchy and crumbly. (The cookies shown in the photos were baked with dough that had been chilled overnight, allowed to come to room temp for 15 minutes, and were baked for 8 minutes, with trays rotated at the 4-minute mark). Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing and transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 3 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
15Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 113Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 82mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 1gSugar: 9gProtein: 3g
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What’s your favorite chocolate cookie recipe or dark chocolate recipe?
I wanted an even smaller batch and I haven’t made your exact recipe but it’s kind of a head-scratcher. I did 1 cup flour, 1 stick butter, 1/3 cup cocoa, 1 egg, no cornstarch, 1/2tsp baking soda, pinch salt, 1/2 T vanilla, cup of semi-sweet chocolate chunks and I did not reduce the brown sugar and it still wasn’t sweet enough.
Also I meant to put 5 stars not 4… 🤷🙈
Thanks :)
Wowzers!! Ok so, I went looking for a chocolate cookie recipe without other stuff in it, no chips, etc… I’m not usually a huge fan of dark chocolate, but for what I was trying to do, stumbling across your recipe was PERFECT! Because…… I had this amazing idea to sprinkle them with SHARP CHEDDAR CHEESE! And let me say… this idea works!So… feedback: Test batch i made 4 cookies using the unchilled dough. I tried both with and without cheese underneath. I didn’t have a dough scoop, so just a spoon and the dough was quite thick, so i rolled it into balls and flattened them to about 1/2″ thickness. Some of them I also added caramel bits into the center. Always a flavor wizard… hah!I used parchment paper too which helped i think. But yeah, I did NOT get the spread I thought I would having used the unchilled dough. They didn’t expand at all really. So then tonight I made the rest of the batch that i HAD chilled, and was surprised to see how much they DID expand! I thought they wouldn’t go anywhere but…… maybe I put them too close to each other and didn’t get the proper air flow/heat current… or whatever. Not sure. I made them fairly small so I got 24 or out of the batch. (Well, 25 if you count the uncooked dough I ate! Lol Honestly it’s the first batch of dough that has made it to the oven in yeaaaaarrrs! ) Anyhooo! We shall see what my family thinks of my crazy experiment, as I am taking them to Christmas dinner tomorrow. =) Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!! I believe I will be utilizing it a lot in the future. Merry Christmas!!
I am glad you loved the recipe and will utilize it in the future!
An absolutely outstanding cookie recipe! Am baking a second batch today , doubling the recipe as everyone I shared them with is asking for more! Thanks😋
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad these are worthy of a second batch/doubling the recipe!
Just… YES! These cookies are PERFECT! They are soft on the inside, lightly crisp-ish on the outside & have a very rich, chocolaty Devil’s food flavor that isn’t overly sweet as brownies are. These just perfect in every imaginable way! As an avid baker, this recipe will definitely be added to my repertoire. Thank you so much for sharing your chocolaty magic with us Averie!
I’m glad you loved these AND that you’re an avid baker! And that you plan to add these to your repertoire!
Hi, Averie. I was looking for recipes to use up the ton of dark brown sugar that has accumulated in the cupboard and found you. I’m mid-bake, having formed six mounds which are in the fridge for the next two hours but yet to clean the kitchen floor because, of course, when opening the cocoa tin, I dropped it. I am looking forward to tasting the results but in the meantime, wanted to ask: have you ever used a tablespoon of vanilla in any other recipes (other then when sizing up for quantity)? I love vanilla but I don’t think I’ve ever used so much at once!
A tablespoon is only 3 teaspoons and I do it all the time! If you think you’d prefer less you can always reduce.
Enjoy the cookies!
The BEST cookies ever!! These have now become a family favorite!! I cannot wait to share these with family and friends this Christmas! Thanks for a fantastic recipe!
Thanks for trying the recipe and I’m glad it came out great for you!
Mmmm, these are so rich and soft! I would hardly call them sugar cookies because they’re so chocolatey, not at all sweet! They’re great for those chocolate cravings because there’s so much chocolate flavor in them.
One question, were yours on the gooey side? Mine were not dry but they were not overly moist either. I wasn’t sure when you said “fudgy” whether you meant “chocolatey and gooey” or just “intense chocolate flavor.” (I’ve found people have different meanings for that word, probably because it doesn’t actually appear in dictionaries!)
Great comment and observations. I know, dark ‘sugar’ cookies really wasn’t the most fitting name b/c they’re not sugary sweet, or really even ‘that’ sweet as cookies good. They’re dark and rich.
And as for fudgy. You are so right in that these are not ooey, gooey, super moist cookies. The only way for that is to severely underbake them. In this sense and for these cookies, I meant fudgy as “intense chocolate flavor”. Great question though. Most times I mean it the other way!
Just tried making these last night – so good! I added dark chocolate chips (just half a cup), and they were fabulous. Thanks for posting the recipe!
PS: I’m trying to watch my calories, so I added everything up. With the chocolate chips in a 15-cookie batch, each cookie is around 175 calories! Just in case anyone else was wondering, these are not only delicious, but almost entirely guilt free ^_^ (without the chocolate chips, they’re closer to 140 calories, by the way).
I think that 140 to 175 for a decent sized cookie that’s truly *satisfying* is pretty darn good! Thanks for doing the stats. I don’t have time to & appreciate the info!
And so glad you liked them :)
These look incredibly dense, dark, and delicious!
Hi Averie. I love how generous you are in giving tips on how to bake really good cookies. And I love how your cookies look… makes me really wanna try them all. You are wonderful!
I am really happy you enjoy the tips and suggestions. I figure as part of my baking blog, sharing pertinent details about the recipe at hand is more important than sharing cute stories about other things and life details, fun as they are to read, they don’t help people make better cookies. I try to be as clear and thorough and informative as I can so people have the best chance for success!
Awww… again I say you are wonderful for having such a generous heart by sharing what you know. I’m sure you blessed so many others by being part of their success. More power to you Averie and God bless you.
Wow! The perfect chocolate cookie was just created! These look scrumptious!
Oh my gosh can you come live with me? Then you can cook and bake for me every day ;) Averie I love all of your recipes that I’ve tried thus far! I’m always reluctant to bake with butter and I try to sub it whenever I can. I subbed 1 small-medium avocado for the stick of butter and these cookies turned out amazing! They were super dense and chewy and the top and sides set wonderfully! You could not taste the avocado at all and the amount of chocolate was just right.
That is amazing that you subbed 1 small/med avo for the butter and they turned out amazing! I love that idea and in cookies like this – really dark chocolate, that is the PERFECT time to use avo, I think! Both the color and the dark chocolate flavors do wonders for making any green colors or tastes :) I am so happy to hear this report from the field! :) Thanks!
Hello, I am a new reader and I love your recipes! I made these cookies yesterday using light brown sugar and they are delicious. For those who need this recipe in metric measurements, feel free visit my blog :)
Thanks for trying them and so glad you enjoyed them!
Wow! These babies look decadent :) I can’t wait to get a bite of this recipe!!
Well I made these and they are very good. Mine don’t seem as gooey as yours look but they are still delicious.
Maybe bake them a minute or two less next time – that’s all! Glad you tried them!
Hey Averie!
Wanted to come back and let you know I just baked these incredibly soft and rich cookies tonight! Wow! It was my first time using cornstarch in cookies and I could tell the difference in texture right away! I also coconut oil instead of butter, and threw in some shredded coconut for even more coconut goodness :)
Thanks so much for this recipe; I’m currently fighting the urge to eat a couple more before bed, haha.
I am so glad to hear you had success with these, and that using softened coconut oil (and some shredded coconut flakes) was perfect for you. And you’re going to love cornstarch in just reg choc chip cookies. It creates the best ever cookies. For example these https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/05/soft-and-chewy-snickers-chocolate-chip-cookies.html is my reg choc chip cookie dough base, with Snickers. Or with Twix https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/05/twix-bar-chocolate-chip-cookies.html The dough base is always the same but the add-ins vary. LMK if you try that base!
I made a rookie mistake by putting the half cup of cocoa into the butter and sugar before I creamed it, because I wasn’t paying attention. I proceeded as usual, though, and the batter seemed all right. As I creamed the butter, sugar, and chocolate together, it was incredibly silky, so I’m hoping it all works out all right. I’ll let you know.
Well if it stayed silky for you, it was probably okay then. Hopefully they worked out! These cookies are fairly forgiving so hope everything was fine. LMK how it went!
They turned out just fine! I sprinkled salt on the top of the second batch, and that was definitely a good decision.
I think they’re kind of creeper cookies. On the first bite, no one was really sure. But when every one finished their first cookie (5 people), they all wanted another. Thanks for another handy recipe!
Glad that they turned out well for you! And that 5 people!! all wanted seconds – that’s the sign of something good :) I also find chocolate has that creeper effect – you don’t know you’re in the mood for it sometimes, til after you have some. Then you want more!
I’m OBSESSED with dark chocolate, and can’t wait to try these cookies!
Thanks for sharing!
Chocolate heaven!
Ok, I’m with you on the whole sugar cookie thing. Regular sugar cookies are boring, I want chocolate in my cookie. I’m just a chocolate kind of girl. These cookies look amazing girl, so rich and fudgey. I love that you used dark chocolate as well as dark brown sugar (you know how I love my dark brown sugar). I need to order myself some of that dark chocolate, so thanks for the link. I love the small batch size as well because cookies really only taste great the first day or two! xoxo, Jackie
Well and you have 2 kids, and they’re older, but my small family of 3 does not need any more than 12 – 18 cookies, at once, max! :)
Oh. My. Goodness. These look stellar. I bet they are so rich and moist with all that dark brown sugar. I made some similar cookies a couple of months ago and they were so black I decided they would make perfect “lumps of coal” for Christmas stockings! But tastier than coal, I’m pretty sure. :)
I love your idea…lumps of coal! :)
I hate sugar cookies for those exact reasons! I don’t know if I would even classify these as cookies because they look like fudgy and ridiculously tasty brownie bites! I need to make these asap!
Soft cookies are the best. They look delicious.
Chocolate sugar cookies are a thing?! Where have I been?! My husband refuses to eat sugar cookies, but I think I could convince him if I whipped up a batch of these.
The choco-holic in me is freaking out right now, Averie! These cookies are begging for a tall glass of milk!
Averie,
quick question: can I use a gluten-free flour to make these luscious chocolate cookies? do you happen to know?
I haven’t tried so your guess is as good as mine. LMK if you try.
Oh wow! I MUST try these. ASAP. My kinda of cookie. Chocolate and Dark and chewy and soft. Hell yes!! xx
I love the way you talk :)
You are the cookie Queen, lady! I’m with you, cookies should be soft and not crispy
I was lucky enough to have all of the ingredients in the house to make a batch of these cookies yesterday afternoon– they are everything you described them to be, Averie! So soft, chocolate-y without being too sweet…perfect, really. I only refrigerated the dough for 2.5 hours (there was an impatient fiance who kept asking when there would be cookies). Thanks for the terrific recipe :-)
That is so awesome that you made them again and that they turned out exactly as promised and described! And impatient fiance…lol. Love that. Didn’t know men got as impatient as we do for our chocolate fixes :) Thanks so much for making these & coming back to LMK!
I feel like there should be a tall, dark, and rich joke that should go with these cookies – because I would marry them if they were a dude. So gorgeous!! And they look so rich!!
LOL. Tall, dark, and handsome. I love it!
These cookies are anything but boring. Mmm!
All I need is a TALL glass of milk to go with these!
I’m not much of sugar cookies too, but I do love dark chocolate among all chocolates and these cookies look really good! Love the expression of “sink my teeth in cookies”. I never used that expression (or heard that) before but I can totally imagine!! :D
Never heard that one? Well yes, they’re super tooth-sinkable!
Sooo chewyyyy!! Yes dark brown sugar and dark cocoa powder, heaven!
You know I LOVE chocolate, so these gorgeous cookies are for me!!! I want to sink my teeth in one right now. xo
Never in a million years would have thought to make brown sugar cookies! Let alone with chocolate. They look like pure brownies! They are simple, yet fancy. Nothing to take away from the perfect chocolatey dough! I love a nice, deeply dark chocolate cookie. :) They look like they’d be SO good crumbled on top of frozen yogurt. That’s what I’ve been doing lately with cookies anyway lol. Their thickness is impressive too, Averie! What a creative cookie recipe – I look forward to your cookies each week!
You know me well enough to know I dole out 1 a week. Some weeks it just hits me, YES…this is what I am making. Other weeks, I feel like it’s more of a challenge. I really loved my coconut oil softbatch brown sugar cookies so much – and although they don’t have chocolate/cocoa in them, they got my wheels turning. And I have a few solely brown sugar cookie bases, so thought it was time to put cocoa in, too. My cookies I am determined naturally stay thick b/c it’s so dry here. I almost WISH they flattened more…either that or it’s all that dough chilling I do. lol
And I know you’ve made that C.I. recipe for choc cookies, and they are good….but it’s a 5-bowl+ recipe. Cannot handle that most times!
You’re so amazing for going outside the box and making sugar cookies the non-traditional way. These babies rock – definitely need to make them soon. I’ve been on an ice cream sandwich kick so I would love these even more sandwich in vanilla ice cream – YUM!
They are PERFECT sandwich-cookie cookies, too!
I am so excited to try these! Growing up my favorite cookies were double chocolate chip. My tasted buds have since matured and I haven’t found a chocolate cookies recipe that can fill that special place in my heart! This could be it!
If you want my most amazing choc cookie recipe, make these
https://www.averiecooks.com/2012/12/quintuple-chocolate-fudgy-brownie-cookies.html
They’re many bowls and a bit of a pain – but worth it.
If you want quick and easy, make the cookies in this post. They are very good. But just based on ingredients list alone, cannot compete with the Quintuple cookies. Sounds like you have something in your mind you’re wanting the cookies to live up to, and i KNOW the Quint cookies will!
You know I love what ever you bake :)
A dark chocolate sugar cookie that is fluffy and moist? Yes! I love the way you think and add ons definitely aren’t necessary here. Simple and sweet. Looking forward to trying these babies out!
Fabulous! LMK if you try them. Knowing your boys and this batch size, they will last 24 hrs, max :)
Fabulous! I love any chocolate cookie and when you mix chocolate with dark brown sugar- well, my mouth just waters. I love World Peace Cookies for an all chocolate cookie. It is more of a shortbread type cookie but if you slice them thick when you bake you get this delectable chocolate butteriness. And they have a bit of salt and salt and chocolate always floats my boat!
http://thisishowicook.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-peace-cookies.html
Normally I am meh about shortbread cookies but this –> “this delectable chocolate butteriness” – that sort of seals the deal for me! And the fact that you were able to keep them thick, mmmm so good!
I happen to have a bag of dark cocoa right now, so these cookies would be the perfect use! Love how thick and chewy these are… I’m envisioning them topped with PB frosting and it sounds like a dream! :)
I am still thinking about your graham bread! It’s….stunning!
Oh my goodness, just look how thick these are! Love how rich and chocolate-y they look – I just want to reach through my screen and grab one. Just gorgeous, Averie!
thanks, Ashley! :)
I love that these are not overly sweet yet super chocolatey. Perfect in my book!!!!
Thanks, Colleen!
These look like a fudgy brownie! SO amazing. WANT!
These would not last very long in my house at all. My kids and I are both big chocolate lovers. I love how fudgey and dark these are.
You had me at dark chocolate!! These look so decadent!
Holy Cow! I can’t believe how THICK those cookies are! They look absolutely mouthwatering.
If these cookies don’t knock a chocolate craving out of the ball park then I don’t know what would. Delicious Averie!
LOL and I agree :)
Wow, these are borderline brownie soft/fudgy! Love it. I am a huge soft & chewy sugar cookie fan. The only time I want the crisp ones is when they’re iced cutouts shaped as trees and snowmen in December. :)
And even then in Dec, I would rather go to town on the holiday candy than crunchy cookies…LOL :)
These look seriously delicious! Looks like a brownie in cookie form! Love!!!
I love how dark and rich these sugar cookies look. You usually don’t see that with sugar cookies, what a unique yummy twist!
Normally they are thin and boring which is why I probably don’t ever make them :)
These look quite delicious. I didn’t realise there were different types of cocoa ie dark and regular, haven’t seen that choice here (in the UK) but will look into it. I will try them this week anyway with my normal cocoa.
There’s lots of different cocoa; regular, dark, Dutch-processed, and not. Hershey’s Special Dark is considered a hybrid of all of them, if you will. If you google ‘different types of cocoa’ you will get more info than you can imagine. I discussed it at length in my cookbook, and now know more than I need to after all my research :)
Thanks Averie, I’ll see what I can get here and make them this week!
What a great use for Hershey’s special dark and dark brown sugar! You have no shortage of ideas for delectable, rich chocolate cookies…oh dear lord these look so good! I decided on the cheesy PB crackers and decided to use the tweaks to make them like cheeze-its. It worked–though I was in a hurry, so they are more the size of saltines. My husband doesn’t mind this little difference at all (they stack up for easy noshing–no bowl required). These are seriously good, and without all the added junk in store-bought!
Oh I am so glad to hear you made the Cheesy Crackers from my cookbook! It was one of those recipes when I was making it, taking the pics, typing it, editing all those pics…it was just ONE recipe and it went on and on and on from my end (and at that stage in the game, didn’t know what pics the publisher would include in the finished book). But I remember those crackers & recipe having a life of its own from the research to making it, pics, etc. So hearing that you made them, and loved them, makes it seem so much more worthwhile! :)
And trust me, if I wasnt making them for a cookbook, saltine-sized sounds WAY more convenient than Cheeze-It size! :) TOTALLY! And that the spices/tweaks you used and the overall flavor came through and translated. I cannot tell you how happy this all makes me! (maybe you can tell from the bible I’m writing back!)
And these choc cookies. Very good and such a NON-fussy cookie. The opposite of some of my other previous choc cookie recipes that go on and on. Not this one!
Cookies for PMS days? Sold! I love the idea of a sugar cookie I can sink my teeth into!! *arg* And here I was about to make some plain, old, white sugar cookies…time for a much-needed grocery run. :D
Chased with red wine or bubbly. Ba-bye PMS :)
These look so thick and soft and perfect! I’ve never made chocolate sugar cookies before, I’ll be pinning this!
Thanks for pinning!
I love sugar cookies, and I’ve made chocolate ones before, but they didn’t look like these. I’ve got these pinned…they look incredible!
Thanks for pinning, Marcie!
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
I love a good deep dark chocolate chip cookie.
Oh these are SO you! I know you like the texture of the Torres cookies and something about these reminds me of those, in dark chocolate format. I hope you’re having a fab weekend!
Yes, I come from a long line of chocaholics :) At first I thought this might be another coconut oil cookie recipe, but you’re so great at achieving that chewy, moist quality even without coconut. They look amazing!
Thanks, Christy. I was going to use coconut oil but since not everyone has it or wants to bake with it or likes it, I wasn’t up for answering a million questions so just used butter. But the recipe would be AWESOME replacing the butter with 1/2 cup soft (but not melted) coconut oil!
Oh great, thanks for letting me know! I’m never sure if I can just replace the butter with coconut oil. Definitely making these now!
LMK how they go!!
I did make these with coconut oil and they are delicious — the coconut is just barely there, and the dark chocolate goes great with it. For more coconutty flavor i bet some coconut in the batter would be really good — but the rest of my family isn’t crazy about coconut, so those would be for me. :)
I baked mine for 9 minutes and I think next time I’ll go a little less, so they are even chewier.
To @Sharon – Thanks for trying them and yes, I prefer 8 minute cookies in general (sometimes even 7 – depending on the dough. But I like things one step above raw :)) But for these, 8 was plenty for me! Glad you liked them and that the coconut oil worked well! Adding coconut to the batter is an okay move but it will absorb some moisture and bulk up the dough, so you may need even less flour. Just a tip if you do try that.
I love a good soft cookie, especially sugar cookies. These sound wonderful and I really like the addition of dark chocolate!
You have go to be kidding me! I mean the only reason I don’t make a lot of sugar cookies is because there is typically no chocolate involved. NOw though? I might have a problem! These look amazing. What an awesome idea Averie!
Yeah, normally they’re just…meh, whatever. So I had to doctor them up :)
Soft sugar cookies are the best! These must be extra soft with brown sugar instead of granulated.
Yes and the cornstarch, too!
I could see these going down veryyy smoothly followed by a class of champagne!
These look sinfully delicious! I love all the dark chocolate in this cookie!
These look AMAZING Averie! I bet they’d be delicious made into whoopie pies…but honestly, they look so good I bet I’d devour them straight before I got the ambition to make any topping! And like you said, sometimes, you just need a good cookie without all the add-ins. Now I’m having chocolate cookie cravings…
I was going to stuff/frost them, maybe with a peanut butter buttercream but then decided ya know, there’s plenty going on here and I don’t ‘need’ to doctor them up (and make another project for myself to clean up after!) so I left them alone…but…they would make excellent sandwich cookies, indeed!