Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies Recipe

Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 24 cookies

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These Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are super soft and smothered in chocolate cream cheese frosting — it’s everything a chocolate cookie should be! Includes a step by step recipe video.

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Remember these  Sour Cream Sugar Cookies and these Lemon Sour Cream Sugar Cookies? You’re not sick of cookies yet, are you?

Because we’re back with one of my favorite variations yet: CHOCOLATE.

The all caps are totally necessary, friends.

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Over the last year or two I have become a total cookie fanatic. I think the right cookie could nearly “take the cake” as my favorite dessert pick. The only problem is I can’t seem to stop at one… or two…. or….

But, hey — it’s November which means we’re in full on Christmas baking season and I won’t apologize.

For this twist on my Grandma’s cookie recipe, I’m smothering these beauties in chocolate cream cheese frosting. It’s rich and tangy and it just goes so perfectly with these soft cookies.

chocolate frosted sour cream cookies on black baking rack with purple towel on the edge

Tips and Tricks for Making these Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies:

  • These sugar cookies are tender and cakey and they melt in your mouth — you won’t want to roll these out, because the dough is quite sticky. Resist the urge to add flour or you will probably end up with hockey pucks!
  • I haven’t tried refrigerating the dough overnight, so I can’t say how they will turn out. I tried refrigerating for 1 hour, and I still liked them better baked right away.
  • The cookies themselves are not overly sweet. I do this because they are a frosted cookie. If you are planning to skip the frosting, understand that your end result won’t be super sweet.
  • You can use a regular chocolate buttercream frosting (or vanilla, or mint, or peanut butter — the options are endless!) if you don’t want to do cream cheese.
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Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies Recipe + VIDEO

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These Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are super soft and smothered in chocolate cream cheese frosting — it’s everything a chocolate cookie should be! Includes a step by step recipe video.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Cuisine American
Course Dessert
Servings 24 cookies
Calories 438cal

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 2 cups sugar 400g
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 1/2 cups flour 435g
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chopped
  • 2 tablespoons cream
  • 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature 125g
  • 1/4 cup butter room temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered icing sugar

Instructions

  • In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on high until combined.
  • Add sour cream, eggs and vanilla, and beat until smooth.
  • Add flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder and beat on low until combined — dough will be soft, almost like thick cake batter. Do NOT add flour.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls (or a 2 TBSP cookie scoop) onto baking sheets 2-3 inches apart and bake for 9-11 minutes, until edges are golden and centers are set.
  • Make the frosting:In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine chocolate and cream. Microwave on high in 10-20 second intervals, stirring well each time, until chocolate is melted. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add the melted chocolate and powdered sugar and beat until smooth and creamy, 2-3 minutes. Spread over cooled cookies and serve or refrigerate to set the frosting. Store in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or in the freezer (I recommend freezing in a single layer before stacking) for up to 3 months.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 438cal | Carbohydrates: 76g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 91mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 26g

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  1. Geoff says

    I can never wait for the holidays because it’s a great excuse to make (and eat) my favorite pies – pecan and pumpkin

  2. Marleen Savarie says

    W yeare have a bake exchange every. We have to make something different each year. But for myself and family I love making ginger snaps

  3. Susan Christy says

    My all time favorite is Reese’s Temptations. Peanut butter cookie dough baked in a mini muffin pan with a mini reese’s cup pushed into the center when they come out of the oven.

  4. Michael says

    Growing up, my mom and sister used to make Biscottis for my dads work coworkers. They would spend all night making tons of these things. I used to help out in ways I could, maybe even making more work for them!
    Nowadays, my sis and I get together with her kids and our mom and make whatever our tastes feel like at the moment. However, I always prefer Cookies over anything else. I love them and I’m planning to try your Grandmas Sour Cream Cookie this Christmas!

  5. Abby says

    My favorite thing to bake during the holidays are snickerdoodles. Yum! And any type of cookie, really. Next up, these chocolate sour cream cookies! Thank you. 🙂

  6. Ashley K (008) says

    Do you ship internationally???
    I love me a good sugar cookie. But haven’t baked any of my own yet. I like them to be soft and not crunchy! Also, LOVE shortbread! Living in a different country this Christmas will mean that baking will be different…but I have a baking friend that can hopefully hook me up with some skilllz!
    I’ve sneaked a listen to her album on Spotify! So fun!!

  7. Lillian Hurd says

    My favorite recipe to make is what my family calls, “Grandma Cookies.” They’re just cake box cookies, but they mean so much to my family. My grandma would make them every day for my dad and his 3 siblings to take to school. When my dad and his siblings grew up, my one aunt would do the same for her kids to take to school, my other aunt would make them for her kids, and my dad taught me. It’s something my dad and I love to do together. And now that us grandkids are older (early to mid 20’s), we are keeping on the tradition. We sometimes try new things like red velvet cookies with chocolate chips, or dark chocolate cookies with pumpkin spice chocolate chips. It may be a very simple, and maybe even generic recipe, but it means the absolute world to my family.

  8. Julie Broderick says

    My favourite thing to make around the holidays is definitely pecan pie. I also love a good butter tart, yum.

  9. Jennifer says

    My grandmothers recipe for speculas cookies. She use to make one giant gingerbread man for each grandchild with this recipe.

  10. Yana Ned says

    I can’t wait to try this recipe! So glad I discovered your website, so many delicious foods!! I love making poppy seed cake truffles and all types of Russian desserts during the holidays. 🙂

  11. Mary says

    These cookies look so delicious…it wouldn’t be Christmas without making Italian gingerbread cookies…made with cooked wine, that is thick like molasses!

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