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.
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.
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.
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.
Chocolate Sour Cream Sugar Cookies Recipe + VIDEO
written by Ashley Fehr
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.
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Mary Jo Henshaw says
Hope I get this in to you in time! My favorite things at Christmas time are some of my mom’s recipes. For example, I always make a double batch of Nuts and Bolts and lots of shortbread with both candied ginger and candied pineapple. My grandchildren love the cookies and several bar cookies like toffee almond bars, millionaire bars and Great Aunt Gertie’s dream bars. And I always have to make fudge an candied bark of various flavors. I’ve just been learning to bake with spelt flour and carob this year in lieu of wheat flour and chocolate. A big learning curve, but proving to be extremely delicious and a bit healthier. Merry Christmas everyone!
Martha says
I am going to try something new this year–pistachio financiers. They are baked in barquette molds. Gifting everyone you work with is not affordable, but wrapping these with a cute little card is more doable. I think many people receive too much in the way of baked goods, so one or two of these is the perfect little gift for a coworker to let them know you appreciate them.
Angela Callahan says
Every year my sister & I get together for a weekend of cookie baking. Our hands down favorite cookie is one my Mom used to make – she called them macaroons but they were made with sweetened condensed milk & several kinds of breakfast cereal – yum!
Teresa Garrett says
I have so many favorite Christmas cookies I bake every year!!! I’m always looking for Holiday cookbooks to try some thing new too!! I just love to cook and bake at the holidays! I love making snowball cookies, salted caramel thumb print cookies, sugar cookies, Holiday chocolate crinkle cookies, no bakes, and so much more!! I just love cooking and baking for the Holidays!!
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elizabeth miller says
i love baking all sorts of Christmas cookies. What I love the most though is designing a fruit Christmas tree.
Beth Richards says
I love to bake chocolate passion fruit exploding cake ? for sweet and for savoury I love to cook cheddar cheese and Brussels sprout soup – yum ?
Laura Haeeison says
I enjoy baking both sweet and savory at Christmas. For savory it would be sausage rools, sweet potato biscuits and an asparagus tomato quiche for breakfast. For sweets it woud be mincemeat handpies, fruitcake and assortedcookies.
Erin L says
So many favourites…salted dark chocolate pretzel bark is at the top though!
Sharon Fleet says
At Christmas time I love to make snowballs just love them
Anne Taylor says
I can’t wait to make sugar cookies, cheddar cheese cookies, gingerbread and lots of cracker toffee! This will be the first year that my grandson can help me; so excited! Thanks
Michael Semon says
Sea Foam Candy, (milk and dark chocolate coated!) is by far our favorite, but we also love almond crescents, chocolate pinwheels, spritz cookies and candy cane twist cookies. I was a single dad, the boys are now all moved out but I still make a selection of Christmas cookies because I know it’s something they look forward to when they get together at home…. even if it’s in November (Like it is this year) because two of them live out of state!
Denise says
Peanut Brittle. It is a family tradition and every year I go home I make it and my sisters live me for it!!!
Heather says
Peppermint Bark hands down. I devour it like a mad woman.
Pat B says
Definitely fudge! But this is the time of the year I make soup (from anything!)
Joanne Lopilato says
Gingerbread
Verna Robertson says
I really enjoy baking! With the first of the colder weather that always puts me in a baking mood, I begin making a variety of sweet breads like pumpkin w/cream cheese layer, cinnamon bread, blueberry banana bread, scones. Love the aromas in my house! Christmas time I enjoy baking pecan coconut pralines, fudge varieties, rum balls, peppermint cookies, & I usually select a new cookie recipe to try something different for a good variety. Love pecan snowballs also!
Vickie Hair says
We love to make Gooey Butter Cake.
Jeanny Jakobsen says
I love to make our favorite shortbread and thumbprint cookies with my kids. We use recipes that have been handed down through my mom’s family for generations with every new baker adding a twist or decoration ideas. We also like to try out new ideas for hot drinks, and soups to enjoy after being outside in the snow.
Cathy Oppedisano says
I haven’t had an amazing, homemade chocolate cake in such a long time. It would be great to have one for Christmas. I’d like to bake one using a recipe that I used many years ago.
Amy B. says
Christmas cookies are fun. My brother and his fiancé come over and we have a great time. My partner and his fiancé make traditional cookies. My brother and I make random outrageous zombie cookies and marauding polar bears. ?
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I always look forward to gingerbread and sweet potato pie. Thank you so much for offering such a fun giveaway!