What do you think Santa would say if I was to leave him a plate of coal cookies?
Do you think he have a sense of humor? That he would get out one good ho-ho-ho, take a bite (falls in love) and then poof! he drops an iPad for me under the tree?!
However on a serious note, these cookies are all kinds of fun. Like a boatload more fun than getting real coal in your stocking but not as fun as silly putty, orange flavored chapstick and a Teen Bop magazine.
With exception of that chocolate chip in the top cookie, I think I achieved a coal looking cookie. To get these coal cookies so black I just slid them into a 500° oven and then burnt the heck out of them. Just kidding! If you want to see the magic unfold before your very eyes you’ll need to start scrolling.
Let’s do this.
To Make These Naughty Coal Cookies you Will Need:
- eggs
- unsalted butter
- baking SODA (not powder! that was an accident)
- granulated sugar
- dark brown sugar
- unbleached all-purpose flour
- black cocoa powder
- chocolate chips
Then take a moment to appreciate deeply dark black cocoa powder is!
What is black cocoa powder? It’s actually the same cocoa used in Oreo cookies.
Add the cocoa to the bowl with the flour…
Add in the teaspoon of baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon of salt, whisk to combine and scoot it off to the side.
Now comes the fun part; throw the butter and sugars into the bowl of your stand mixer. Next, mix on medium-low until light and fluffy. With that being said, this cookie dough ends up being pretty dense so a hand mixer might not be able to do the job.
Then, with the mixer on low add one egg at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Then scrape down the sides.
Next gradually add in the dry ingredients.
Then, continue to mix, pausing to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Next, drop in the chocolate chips. For this recipe, I’m using bittersweet 60% cacao and slowly mix them in.
Now you’re ready to make some coal.
Next, using a 2-tablespoon scoop to measure out 12 of the coal-dough-balls. Then slide the pan into a 400° oven for 6-8 minutes.
Bam. Coal. (the color is a leeeetle disturbing.)
Yes these extremely black cookies are edible. Just because they look just. like. coal doesn’t mean they taste like coal. Only a gazillion times better because, chocolate!
Orrrr rich, chocolaty, chocolate chip brownie cookies.
Enjoy! And if you give this Naughty Coal Cookis recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!
Naughty Coal Cookies
Ingredients
- 1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1¼ cups black cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 kosher salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips, pick your favorite
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°. And line a rimmed sheet pan with a silicon liner or parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt, then set off to the side.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer add butter and sugars, mix on low to medium-low until combined. Add one egg at a time and mix after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl before gradually adding the dry ingredients. Mix until thoroughly combined. Add in the chocolate chips and mix until incorporated.
- Using a 2-tablespoon scoop, place rounded dough onto prepared sheet pan. Bake in preheated oven for 6-8 minutes. If still soft after 8 minutes, bake for 1 minute increments.
- Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
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The color is stunning. I love the deep, dark black hue. Yeah, chocolate! Pinned.
Now those are awesome! I know of some little stinkers who could use some “coal”. Thanks for the fun post!
I couldn’t help but follow the link and buy the black cocoa. Hope you get some kind of credit for that from king Arthur Flour. I’ll share my order number if it helps you get a kick back! Can’t wait to eat these…hoping I get them baked first.
What FUN!!!! I know a couple of my girls that could have gotten them.. Where was this recipe when they were little??..LOL
These look awesome! I’ve got two nephews to try these on. =)
One other recipe I’ve seen said that adding dark purple food coloring (from cake decorating) to cocoa will give you a black color. There’s another option you can try.
Amazing!!!! The same dark cocoa as Oreos—-now that is a recommendation! I can’t believe how dark these did turn out.
In fact I am laughing. I love it!!!!
These look amazing. I need some of that cocoa powder! I’m heading up to VT over the weekend and plan on stopping at KAF, they best have it in stock!
These were perfect! I made them yesterday and the only sub I had to make was using Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder since I couldn’t find the Black Cocoa powder. They turned out FANTASTIC!! The batter was delicious and the cookies were so black and tasted like chewy oreos- thanks for sharing such a fun recipe!!
Hi. Correct me if I’m wrong 1-1/2 means 1 and a 1/2 cups, correct?
Correct! Enjoy!
Great recipe. I’ll be making these tonight. Thanks for posting it.
But really, way, way too many photos. Just a couple would have been enough. Put the smartphone down and step away from it. Like most food bloggers, you have no self-control with the ,camera function. There seems to be some sort of underground competition among you all to see who can embed the highest number of just average, pointless photos in a post.
Oh my gosh, I can taste the rich, chocolatey perfection of a cookie already!
I wouldn’t mined receiving this coal at all!!
I made these and they were awesome!! I subbed out the dark chocolate chips for Andes mint chocolate chips. They tasted like a chewy thin mint. A real crowd pleaser!! Thanks for the recipe.
I was so excited about this recipe (I made dark chocolate candy cane cookies with the dark chocolate last Christmas). However, when I baked them they spread out and flatten a lot… They were still soft and chewy when they cooled (hopefully they will still be tomorrow for my get together). I know too soft butter is usually the culprit, but I made sure to only let it soften for 30 mins and even refrigerated the dough while I was waiting the the cookies to bake… please help with what I did wrong…
These cookies are as delicious as they are shocking to look at! Decadent chocolate flavor without being too sweet. I will definitely add these to my Christmas cookie repertoire. A fun gag gift and easy to make.
This is a great recipe! I’ve made it multiple times and it’s always worked well. For some variation, I’ve also chopped up white chocolate to add instead of chocolate chips. The cookies don’t look like coal when I do that, but they taste good.