Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are some of the best chocolate cookies I’ve ever made. When you’re really craving chocolate and nothing else will do, make these. I’ve made Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies (pinned 1 million times) and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies. It was time for a chocolate version. The double chocolate cookies are deep, dark, indulgent, and cream cheese helps them stay extra soft and moist. I’ve found when making cream cheese cookies that the cream cheese helps intensify the buttery flavor and you’re left with cookies with unparalleled richness. Corrnstarch gives the cookies softbatch-style softness and they stay that way for days, provided you don’t overbake them. The cookies are decadent, dense, and wonderfully thick. For thick cookies, you must plan ahead and chill the dough. Soft, warm dough straight from the mixing bowl that contains softened butter and softened cream cheese will never bake up into thick, puffy cookies. Just wait until you sink your teeth into these and all that chocolate. Heavenly.
What’s in Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Here’s what you’ll need to make these double chocolate chip cookies:
Unsalted butter Cream cheese Light brown sugar Granulated sugar Egg Brewed coffee Vanilla extract Unsweetened cocoa powder Instant espresso powder All-purpose flour Cornstarch Baking soda Salt Semi-sweet chocolate chips
How to Make Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
To make these soft batch chocolate chip cookies, you’ll first need to cream together the butter, cream cheese, sugars, egg, coffee, and vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add in the cocoa powder and espresso powder. Mix until combined, then add remaining dry ingredients. Gently fold in the chocolate chips last. Scoop the double chocolate chip cookie dough into 1/4 cup balls, then chill for at least 2 hours. Once chilled, bake the dough for about 10 minutes, or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked or glossy in the center.
How to Store Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
These double chocolate cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
Can I Add Extra Mix-Ins?
I don’t see why not! You could add chopped nuts, use a mixture of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, you name it.
Tips for Making Double Chocolate Cookies
Use old-fashioned brick-style cream cheese. ‘Whipped’ or ‘spreadable’ cream cheese isn’t thick enough, has too much water content, and the cookies will spread. You can use lite brick-style, but not fat-free, because some fat is necessary to properly bind the ingredients. Given their dark color it’s visually hard to determine when chocolate cookies are done and it’s easy to overbake. Plus, cocoa powder has a drying effect so watch them closely and pull them before you think they’re done. If you use a cookie scoop and bake on a Silpat, even better. All these little cookie baking tricks do add up to help you achieve bakery-style cookies at home.
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