Dark Chocolate Coffee Cookies

The perfect afternoon treat to pair with coffee! These Dark Chocolate Coffee Cookies are rich, moist, and have a balance of not-too-sweet-sweetness thanks to the dark chocolate and instant coffee in the recipe.

What’s a Coffee Cookie?

Great question! We named this recipe a “Coffee Cookie” for two primary reasons:

1. It’s got coffee IN it. As you can see in the recipe below, there is a scoop of instant coffee. This gives it a rich, distinct flavor that you won’t find in a typical cookie recipe.
2. It goes great with coffee! One of my favorite things to do is pair coffee with something sweet. This is a perfect treat to serve with decaf at night or for an afternoon treat.

Now that we’ve clarified why we call this a coffee cookie, let’s get to making it!

What Ingredients Do I Need?

When baking, it’s always helpful to set out all of your ingredients before you start. It’s almost inevitable that you will be missing something if you don’t! Here is what you’ll need:

• Softened butter
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Instant coffee (decaf or regular will work)
• Cocoa powder
• Baking powder
• Salt
• All purpose flour
• Dark chocolate chips (we like these from Target)

How to Make Coffee Cookies!

Like most cookie recipes, start with mixing up the butter and sugar and eggs in a stand mixer or with a handheld mixer. It’s really important that the butter is room temperature for this.

After the wet mix is light and fluffy, you’ll then stir together the dry ingredients in a different bowl.

I like to use a stand mixer to make the cookie dough. It makes it easier to combine the ingredients.

After you add the dry ingredients to the butter, sugar, egg mix, you’ll fold in the dark chocolate using a wooden spoon. I say fold in because you don’t want to over mix your dough or the cookies will get dense.

Using a small scoop, place your cookies on parchment-lined baking sheet. I’ve found that these cookies do best when pressed out a bit with your hands. Because of their consistency, they need a little assistance to take on the traditional cookie shape.

Can You Freeze Dark Chocolate Coffee Cookies?

You betcha! Just be sure to freeze them before you bake them.

Cookie dough freezes beautifully if you do it the right way. Here is a short tutorial on How to Freezer Cookie Dough. It will save you so much time and money in the long run if you start doing this!

Can You Taste the Coffee in These?

Not really. I’d describe it as a hint of coffee flavor. My picky 5 year old loved them, so the coffee flavor isn’t too strong.

MORE COOKIES TO TRY

If you like these cookies, try one of our other yummy recipes.

• Monster Cookies
• Snickerdoodles
• Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Powerball Cookies
• Raspberry Crumble Cookies