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This easy double chocolate chip cookies recipe makes soft and chewy chocolate cookies packed with plenty of chocolate chips. The perfect cookie recipe for chocolate lovers!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you’re looking for chocolate cookie recipes with cocoa powder, you are going to love this easy recipe for double chocolate chip cookies! These delicious cookies are basically your favorite chocolate chip cookies with even more chocolate.
The best part about these chocolate chocolate chip cookies is they are super easy to make. In fact, this cookie recipe is so easy that my daughter did most of the work herself! Enjoy them with a cold glass of milk, a warm cup of hot cocoa, or by themselves! Try my Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies or Oreo chocolate chips next!
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Ingredient Notes
Here are the ingredients for this chocolate cookie recipe. Full amounts are in the printable recipe card below.
- Cocoa powder – unsweetened
- Flour — all purpose flour
- Baking soda — helps the cookies rise
- Salt — I use sea salt, but kosher salt or regular salt will work
- Butter — I use salted butter, but unsalted butter is fine
- Sugar — white sugar
- Brown sugar — helps the cookies stay nice and soft
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract — for flavor
- Chocolate chips — I use either all semi sweet chocolate or a combination of semi sweet and extra dark chocolate or bittersweet chocolate to pack as much chocolate flavor as possible into these cookies. I have also used chocolate chunks for different texture. You can use your favorite flavor combo.
- Optional — flaked sea salt or seasonal sprinkles for added flavor and color
For more variation of chocolate flavors, use white chocolate chips or peanut butter chips, either on top of the cookies or mixed into the rich chocolate dough.
How to Make Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
First, preheat the oven to 350F and prepare a couple baking sheets to put your cookies on. You can line each cookie sheet with parchment paper, aluminum foil or use silicone mats. Start out by adding flour, baking soda and sea salt to a mixing bowl, just as you would for regular chocolate chip cookies. Then, you sift the cocoa powder into the bowl along with your dry ingredients. You can also sift all of the dry ingredients together at once.
Next, mix your wet ingredients together in a separate large bowl. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients.
Stir in a decent amount of chocolate chips — We used a mix of semi sweet and dark morsels here. Then, I like to chill the dough before placing it on cookie sheets to keep the dough from spreading.
Use a small cookie scoop (or your hands!) to form the cookies. Then place the dough on prepared cookie sheets. We like to add more chocolate morsels to the tops of the cookies. Or, you can add seasonal candies or sprinkles.
These cookies have a baking time of 10-12 minutes. Once they’re done, you can swirl a drinking glass around each cookie to help them form a perfect circle. Then, let them cool off a bit before transferring them to a wire rack or cooling rack to cool completely. The perfect chewy cookies!
Storage and Freezing
These chocolatey cookies will keep well at room temperature, just store them in an airtight container, and they should stay fresh for 4-5 days.
Wrap the cookies in plastic wrap or freezer paper in a zip top freezer bag, and freeze cookies for up to 6 months. You can also freeze the dough balls and store in a freezer bag to bake later. This is a life saver when you get a serious chocolate craving!
Recipe Tips
Do you have to sift cocoa powder? Sifting prevents it from clumping. And, since nobody wants clumps of cocoa in cookies, I definitely recommend this step!
Chill dough for about 15-20 minutes to prevent spreading.
Don’t over bake the cookies. The centers may be soft, but they will firm up as they cool.
Use a drinking glass to help the cookies stay nice and round. Just swirl the glass around the freshly baked cookies for a few seconds after they come out of the oven.
Place a slice of bread in the cookie container to help the cookies stay fresh longer.
A Note on Cocoa Powder
For this chocolate cookie recipe with cocoa powder, you’ll want to use unsweetened cocoa powder. But you can choose between a few different types.
Regular cocoa will work just fine, but if you want a richer, more intense chocolate cookie recipe, use Dutch process cocoa power. Hershey’s Special Dark and Guittard are some of our favorite Dutch cocoas. Some say that Dutch processed cocoa (alkalized cocoa) does not work well with baking soda due to the lower ph level, and will result in flat cookies. However, I have been making these cookies for years with alkalized cocoa powder, and the cookies are definitely not flat!
Easy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter softened at room temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or your favorite flavor
Instructions
- In a medium size bowl, sift the cocoa powder, flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well and set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar
- Beat the eggs in, adding one egg at a time.
- Stir in the vanilla
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients, making sure to mix well
- After the batter is fully incorporated, stir in the chocolate chips. Set the batter in the fridge to cool for 15 minutes or until firm.
- Preheat the oven to 350℉. Scoop the batter into heaping tablespoons and place on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Use silicone baking mats, foil or parchment paper for best results.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges are firm
- Remove cookies from oven, and let cool slightly. Then, place on cooling rack or cool surface to cool completely.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Some of the best cookies I’ve ever had! You can never have too much chocolate!
Love these rich chocolate cookies. Couldn’t wait until they cooled down before eating them. Yummy!
I was looking for something to do with the grandkids and they picked this one! Love the double chocolate and they went to town with the toppings. Happy kids happy grandma!
The kids made these for dad last night! Yummy! Easy to make and then we ate them all up! This is a new favorite!