I LOVE making these easy chocolate sugar cookies! The moist chocolate crumb is perfectly cooked never dry! Just a few simple ingredients and they cook in just 6 minutes. Great for special occasions, gifts, Valentine’s Day & Christmas!
This is the easiest sugar cookie recipe made with simple ingredients you probably already have in the kitchen!
Making these sugar cookies and giving them away to friends and family is one of my family’s favorite traditions. This chocolate sugar cookie recipe entertains kids for hours! We all love rolling out cookie dough, cutting shapes, decorating them, and sharing our creations!
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Recipe
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Then, add ingredients to a stand mixer bowl with a cookie paddle, or to a large mixing bowl, and mix till thoroughly incorporated.
- 1 & 1/2 cups softened butter (or 3 sticks of softened butter)
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla (vanilla is optional but adds a great depth of flavor that you can’t get any other way.)
- 5 1/2 cups flour (I use unbleached, use your favorite)
- 1/2 cup Hershey’s cocoa powder
- Then 2 teaspoons baking powder.
- 2 teaspoons salt
ON A FLOURED SURFACE, WITH A FLOURED ROLLING PIN, ROLL COOKIE DOUGH TO 1/4 INCH THICK AND COOKIE CUTTERS TO CUT OUT SHAPES! KEEP ADDING FLOUR TO THE SURFACE AND ROLLING PIN AS NEEDED TO PREVENT STICKING.
Cut a sheet of parchment paper to cover the inside of your cookie sheet.
Place cookie shapes on parchment paper and fill your cookie sheet leaving about 1 inch between cookies.
Bake at 400 for 6-8 minutes. (Baking time will differ with ovens, but do not cook till golden brown, or they will be hard. (I prefer to bake at 6 minutes because I do not like dry cookies.)
Let cookies cool for about 10 minutes, then frost!
Frosting & Icing
Butter Cream Frosting Recipe – Best Tasting
This buttercream frosting is made with butter, cream, and sugar, and is deliciously scrumptious on sugar cookies! Use your favorite food coloring to decorate.
In a medium mixing bowl or stand mixer add:
- 1 lb confectioner’s sugar 454g
- 1 cup soft salted butter at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
- Dash of salt
Blend on high till smooth!
*If coloring with multiple colors, add 1/2 cup frosting to 3-6 bowls, add a few drops of desired food coloring to each bowl and mix till desired colors develop.
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Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups 3 sticks soft butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 5.5 cups flour
- 1/2 cup hershys cocoa
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Add ingredients to a stand mixer bowl with a cookie paddle, or to a large mixing bowl, and mix till thoroughly incorporated.
- Preheat the Oven to 400 degrees F.
- On a floured surface, roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick
- Cut out shapes
- Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes. (I only bake for 6 minutes!)
- Frost with buttercream or Sugar Cookie Icing, (See Recipes Below) https://Farmhouseharvest.net/chcoclate-sugar-cookies
Let me know what you think!
Share your cooking tips and feedback in the comments below. Did you add any twists to these recipes? I’d love to hear!
Decorative Sugar Cookie Icing
This easy sugar cookie icing recipe makes a beautiful icing but it takes about 3 hours to dry. I like this recipe because it’s made with simple pantry staple ingredients and its easy enough for beginners!
Tools for Chocolate Sugar Cookies
- Kitchen Aid Mixer – Or a Stand Mixer (This is much easier than using a large mixing bowl and a hand-held blender, but you can do that too.)
- Cookie Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper (Optional but makes clean up so much faster!)
- Rolling Pin
- Cookie Cutters
- Spatula
- Timer
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About Juliea
Juliea Huffaker is the creator of Farmhouse Harvest, and dedicated to teaching from-scratch cooking, sourdough baking, gardening, and food preservation. With over 25 years of hands-on experience she has preserved hundreds of jars of produce, mastered the art of meats and sourdough baking, and nurtured a thriving organic garden. Her recipes and articles have been featured across the web. And she’s passionate about inspiring others to embrace a simpler, self-sufficient life style.
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