A chocaholic's DREAM! Soft chocolate cookies with chocolate chips, cocoa, and topped with fudgy chocolate ganache!! Rich, decadent, and heavenly!!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Chill Time3 hourshrs
Total Time3 hourshrs25 minutesmins
Course: Cookies
Cuisine: American
Keyword: best chocolate cookies, chocolate chocolate cookies, chocolate frosting for cookies, frosted chocolate chip cookies, soft chocolate cookies, triple chocolate cookies
Servings: 20
Calories: 316kcal
Author: Averie Sunshine
Ingredients
Cookies
½cupunsalted buttersoftened (1 stick)
½cupgranulated sugar
½cuplight brown sugarpacked
1large egg
1 ½teaspoonsvanilla extract
2tablespoonscream or half-and-half
1 ¼cupsall-purpose flour
heaping 1/2 cupalmost 2/3 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoonsaltor to taste
2cupssemi-sweet chocolate chips
Ganache
1 ⅓cupssemi-sweet chocolate chipsabout 8 ounces
½cupcream or half-and-halfdo not use regular or whole milk, it doesn’t have enough fat and ganache won’t set up
about 1/2 cup sprinklesor as necessary
Instructions
Cookies:
To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large bowl and electric mixer), add the butter, sugars, and beat on medium-high speed until creamed and well combined, about 3 to 4 minutes.
Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the egg, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until well combined, about 2 minutes.
Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the cream, and beat on medium-high speed until well combined, about 1 minute. The batter may look a little ‘grainy’ and almost as if it’s separated, this is okay.
Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the chocolate chips, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
Using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop or your hands, form approximately 19 equal-sized mounds of dough. The dough is very soft and I find it easiest to use a cookie scoop.
Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray.
Flatten the dough mounds about halfway, then place on a baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet).
Bake for about 8 to 10 minutes or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked and glossy in the center; don’t overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet completely. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack. While they cool, make the ganache.
Ganache:
To a medium bowl, add the chocolate chips; set aside.
To a microwave-safe measuring cup or bowl, add the cream and heat on high power until just boiling, probably about 30 seconds, but watch it closely because all microwaves vary.
Pour the warm cream over the chocolate chips, cover with plasticwrap or foil to trap in the heat, and let it rest for about 10 minutes.
After about 10 minutes, whisk the mixture smooth. Tip – If your chips are resistant to melting, you can place the bowl in the microwave and heat for about 15 to 30 seconds.
Add about 1 to 2 tablespoons ganache to the top of each cookie.
Evenly sprinkle each cookie with as many sprinkles as desired.
Notes
Storage: Cookies will keep airtight at room temp for up to 5 days or in the fridge for up to 1 week. I’m comfortable storing items with ganache at room temp but if you’re not, store in the fridge, noting cookies will dry out more in the fridge. Unbaked dough can be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.Adapted from Soft Frosted Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Sprinkles Cookies and Peppermint Patty Chocolate Cookies.