Name: Chocolate Snickerdoodles
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 42 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup butter (softened); 1 cup sugar ((200g)); 1/2 cup light brown sugar (tightly packed (100g)); 2 large eggs; 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour ((326g)); 1/4 cup cocoa powder ((25g)); 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar; 1 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 1/2 tsp salt; 3 Tbsp sugar; 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 3/4 tsp cocoa powder

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Snickerdoodle cookies with a twist! Soft, cocoa-based cookies with warm notes of cinnamon and sugar make for a fun twist on a classic — these chocolate snickerdoodles are sure to be a new favorite!

The photos & text in this post have been updated, but the recipe is the same!

Are you tired of the Christmas music yet? The holiday shopping? The cold weather? The holiday baking?

Some of it I could do without (I’m looking at you, way-crowded shopping center and frosted windshield), but I’m trying to soak up every last bit of holiday cheer that I can in these 9 (!?) days we have left before Christmas. At home, I’ve got Trans Siberian Orchestra on full blast and there are plenty more cookie recipes coming your way in the next few posts.

Today’s cookie recipe is actually from last year — these chocolate snickerdoodles were a huge hit everywhere I took them, but the photos that I had taken didn’t do them justice.

It was time for a reshoot (or maybe just an excuse to re-make one of my favorite cookies).

Ever since I learned that I could sub out the shortening that my mom’s snickerdoodle recipe called for and use butter instead, Snickerdoodles have been my favorite cookies to make every year (there are very few occasions where shortening has any business being in cookies, and Snickerdoodles are not one of them).

I thought I’d shake things up a bit by adding cocoa into the mix.

Chocolate and cinnamon aren’t an everyday flavor pairing (at least not in my world), but they complement each other in an unexpected way; it’s a cozy, slightly spiced, warming taste, crackly outsides with rich chocolate interiors. It’s like a cup of hot cocoa on a snowy Christmas night; they’re festive and cozy and just all around delicious.

I never really considered a cookie as something that could be particularly cozy, but I’ve said it twice now so it must be true, at least when it comes to chocolate snickerdoodles.

Since the chocolate taste is pretty pronounced in these chocolate snickerdoodles (duh), I didn’t want the cinnamon flavoring to be lost in the final product. Half teaspoon of ground cinnamon is sprinkled into the dough in addition to being rolled over the outside.

As I mentioned, I originally published this recipe a year ago, and while I didn’t make any fundamental changes to the recipe, I did add in an optional step where you chill the dough balls for a second time after you’ve rolled them in cinnamon/sugar/cocoa powder.

This isn’t necessary for a great final product, but I like to do it because allowing the dough time to sit with the sugar coating encourages a nice classic crackle in your baked chocolate snickerdoodles.

Enjoy!