Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Easy Chocolate Sugar Cookies are super soft & chewy. Delicious when frosted for the holidays but so good you can enjoy them without any decorating too.
Servings 24 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter room temp (2 sticks)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- pinch of table salt
Icing - if desired
- ¼ cup meringue powder
- 1-2 cups confectioners sugar
- 2-3 tbsp water as needed for desired consistency
Instructions
Cookies
- Combine butter & sugar in a large mixing bowl- beating on medium speed.
- Add egg & vanilla. Beat in on low.
- Slowly beat in flour- one cup at a time.
- Add cocoa powder & the pinch of salt. Mix well on low.
- Transfer dough to a sheet of parchment paper & then lay another piece on top to sandwich the dough between the two sheets.
- Roll a rolling pin over the top of the parchment until the dough is in a flat piece.
- Freeze for about 10-15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove dough from freezer & cut into your shapes & transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-13 minutes. I did mine for 13 because I made them thick.
- Cool on the baking sheet & then transfer to wire rack.
- Pipe on Royal Icing if desired.
Icing
- Combine all ingredients & whisk until smooth.
- Pour into a piping bag & pipe on cookies.
- Sprinkle any decorations on after each cookie is iced. Don't wait until the icing is done for them all- the icing will be hardened enough that it won't stick.
- Let firm up for at least several hours before stacking.