How to Make Easy Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies Recipe
If you love chocolate cookies, these Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies are definitely worth making. They’re rich, chocolatey, chewy, and have that slightly fudgy texture that makes it hard to stop at just one
Chocolate cookies always remind me of my childhood. Every once in a while, my mom would buy Archway Dutch Chocolate Cookies, and I loved them. They had a slightly firm outside with a soft, tender, chewy center.
These cookies remind me of those cookies I loved growing up, but with plenty of chocolate sprinkles rolled all over the outside.
The texture is my favorite part. They’re chewy, fudgy, and deeply chocolatey, with a little crunch from the chocolate sprinkles on the outside.
And they’re easy to make.
Mix the dough, chill it, roll the dough into balls, coat them generously with chocolate sprinkles, and bake.
The sprinkles make these cookies look extra fun, but they also add a nice texture to every bite. I use plenty of them because, honestly, more chocolate is never a bad idea.
These are the kind of cookies I can see myself making again and again. They’re great for a cookie tray, holiday baking, or anytime you want an easy chocolate cookie.
If you’re a chocolate lover, I think you’ll really enjoy these Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies.
These were rolled in granulated sugar. Other options are brown sugar, turbinado coarse sugar, or colored sprinkles.
A few things to know
Chill the dough. This makes the dough easier to roll and helps the cookies keep their shape while baking.
Don’t skimp on the sprinkles. Roll each dough ball generously so you get plenty of chocolate sprinkles in every bite.
Don’t overbake them. The cookies should have a slightly firm outside while staying soft and chewy inside. That’s what gives them that fudgy texture I love.
And yes, there’s always room for a chocolate cookie afterward.
Looking for more fun chocolate cookies, give these tender brownie cookies!
Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder I used dutch cocoa powder
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a mixer bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy
- Add in one egg at a time, mixing completely after each addition
- Mix in vanilla
- In a separate bowl, place cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, and salt, and mix until well blended
- Add the flour mixture to the mixer bowl with butter and brown sugar on low until fully combined
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge until the dough is chilled, at least 30 minutes.
- Roll two tablespoons of dough into a ball, then into the sprinkles
- Place each ball of dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet, 2 inches apart, and bake for 9-11 minutes,, the edges will be slightly firm
- Allow cookies to cool on a baking sheet.
Notes
I’m making sunflower cupcakes for a wedding cake display and thought I’d use these as the center of the sunflowers and pipe in buttercream petals. Do you think I could make these cookies in advance and freeze them?
Yes, I think these cookies will freeze well and look great for centers of sunflower cupcakes.
Happy Baking!
Hi Diane, I didn’t expect these to be anything special, because the recipe seems so plain. Wow, was I wrong! They were extraordinary! I used special Callebaut “vermicelli,” which are a gourmet-type of chocolate sprinkles. Also, I had some Hershey’s kisses lying around, so I pressed one of these into each cookie as they were coming out of the oven. Fabulous. Brought them to work: Rave reviews. Thanks for this gem!
these are my go to chocolate cookies, and using good chocolate helps 🙂 Happy to hear you enjoyed them.
Thank you so much for this post.
Found it on pintrest and am so happy i did!!
They are a wonderfully fudgy cookie-
will happily recommend to others
I am dying to try these! SOON!
These do NOT disappoint 🙂
I just made these and they are delicious!!! Not too sweet, very chocolaty and moist. I refrigerated the dough for an hour which prevents the cookies from spreading when baking. Just what I need for a chocolate fix. My husband said to keep these cookies in the rotation. Thank you for sharing 😉 I made 3 dozen from this recipe.
These turned out great! Thanks for the recipe. Sooo decadent and yummy! 🙂
Glad you liked the recipe 🙂
These are AMAZING! I made them last night for a beach trip with the teens at my church. I’m now mad I didn’t double the recipe cuz the cookies didn’t last very long! Even after only a few hours in a ziploc bag, they were perfectly soft and chewy and chocolatey (my favorite kinda cookie)! I’ve been looking for a great chocolate cookie recipe and this one is the WINNER winner, chicken dinner! It’s easy and soooooooo so good. The only changes I made were that I used dark chocolate cocoa powder (Hersheys), mostly dark instead of light brown sugar, I used sugar to roll the cookies in, and I refrigerated the dough overnight so I wasn’t up till midnight! I used my large Pampered Chef cookie scoop (two Tablespoons-ish) and this recipe made 31.5 cookies (the half went in my mouth as raw dough lol). Did I mention these are amazing?!
so happy you liked the recipe 🙂
These look great! I was looking for something fun and different to bake today, I have found it! Thanks!
Chocolate sprinkles are my favorite kind of sprinkles! These look amazing!
Everything is better with chocolate sprinkles. I’m pretty sure about that. 🙂
The instructions say add vanilla but there is no vanilla in the recipe ! How much vanilla do you add?
sorry about that it’s a teaspoon of vanilla, thanks for pointing it out that I forgot it, I adjusted the recipe to reflect the adjustment.
Great, thank you. Looking forward to making these. Wondering if they would come out as good with Divine Cocoa. It’s a great quality cocoa but not Dutch. If you think not, I will get some Dutch Cocoa from the Nut House (the real name is The Head Nut) here in PA
I’m sure the divine cocoa will work nicely
okay, don’t judge me here, as my thighs will be judging me enough for even thinking this lol, but since these are like chocolate sugar cookies, I’m betting a fudgy buttercream would be awesome onthese 🙂