143 chocolate sugar cookie recipes

Chocolate egg shortbread thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry jam and topped with a chocolate egg, then drizzled with powdered sugar glaze. A fun Easter baking project kids love.

Coral chocolate chip cookies with both white and brown sugar, optional pecans, and a chilled-dough trick for thicker, chewier cookies. A classic recipe with bakery-style results.

Soft chocolate chip cookies made with prune puree instead of butter for moist, fudgy texture. Brown sugar and vanilla create rich flavor at just 145 calories per cookie.

Applique cookies stack contrasting chocolate-pepper and sugar cookie doughs, cut in different shapes and glued with egg white before baking, then drizzled with chocolate. A striking two-tone decorating technique.

Peanut butter double chip cookies stir chunky peanut butter, salted peanuts, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips into a tender brown sugar dough. Three textures in every bite.

Thin, snappy chocolate wafers with deep cocoa flavor and a dusting of powdered sugar turn any cookie tin into a bakery showpiece. Chilling the dough overnight makes them extra crisp.

Melted butter mixed with brown and white sugars creates thick, bakery-style chocolate chip cookies that stay soft in the center with crisp edges when baked at precisely 325°F.

These chocolate chip coffee cookies are seriously delicious, and this time you don't have to worry about too much sugar, too high in lots of bad things. Because they are made with 100% whole wheat flour, applesauce and olive oil, not super sweet, and good for you.

Chocolate peppermint pinwheel cookies swirl cocoa-rich chocolate dough with crushed peppermint candy dough into a spiral slice-and-bake Christmas cookie. A holiday tin classic with bracing mint and deep chocolate.

Chocolate snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar for a craggy, snow-dusted finish. Brown sugar and unsweetened chocolate give these holiday cookies a deep cocoa flavor that's not too sweet.

Mexican mocha balls: shortbread-style chocolate-coffee cookies with chopped walnuts and maraschino cherries, rolled in extra-fine sugar. Perfect for the holiday cookie tray.

Butterscotch chocolate chunk cookies: chewy brown-sugar cookies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chunks. The butterscotch flavor comes from both light and dark brown sugar, no chips required.

Chocolate dipped macadamia nut shortbread cookies made with butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Slice-and-bake rounds dipped in melted chocolate for a Hawaiian-inspired treat.

Mexican polvorones, crumbly cinnamon shortbread cookies coated in a chocolate-cinnamon sugar. Baked low and slow for a melt-in-your-mouth traditional Mexican cookie.

Chocolate cookies with powdered sugar coating. Very chocolaty, yum!

Hidden Kisses cookies with chocolate kisses wrapped in buttery pecan shortbread and rolled in powdered sugar. A snowball cookie with a melted chocolate surprise inside.