Double Chocolate Cookies with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Absolutely delicious cookies that can be served with or without the frositng
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Assembling Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Cream butter and both sugars together in an electric mixer.
- Add vanilla and eggs, beat at medium speed.
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Blend at low speed until combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
- Form dough into one-inch balls and place on cookie sheets, two inches apart.
- Bake at 400 degrees for ten minutes.
- Cool and frost with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Frosting
- Bring butter and cream cheese to room temperature and whip together in an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla.
- Slowly sift in unsweetened cocoa powder and powdered sugar, mixing on low until blended.
- Spread on cooled cookies.