Naughty Coal Cookies

This year leave some Naughty Coal Cookies out for Santa! Deep, dark chocolate cookies studded with bittersweet chocolate look like lumps of black coal! Yields 36 lumps... I mean cookies or 18 (2 cookie) servings.

Course Desserts & Sweet Treats

Cuisine American

Keyword chocolate, christmas cookies, coal cookies

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 24

cooling time per batch 15

Total Time 54

Servings cookies

Calories 303

Author Laurie McNamara

Equipment

Ingredients

1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1¼ cups black cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup unsalted butter softened
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1½ cups chocolate chips I use bittersweet, but pick your favorite!

US Customary - Metric

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 and baking powder and then set off to the side.
In the bowl of your stand mixer add butter, both sugars and salt. Mix on medium-low until combined. Add one egg at a time and mix after each addition. Add in the vanilla extract with the last egg.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl before gradually adding the dry ingredients. Mix until thoroughly combined. Add in the chocolate chips and mix by hand until incorporated.
Using a 2 tablespoon scoop, place 12 rounded balls of dough onto prepared sheet pan. Bake in preheated oven for 6-8 minutes. If still soft after 8 minutes, bake for 1 minute increments. (in my oven 8 minutes is perfect)
Immediately once out of the oven, use a drinking glass to cover the cookie and make a swirling motion. This will correct any imperfect edges, yielding a perfectly round coal cookie.
Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Repeat with remaining cookie dough.

Notes

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