If you like Texas Sheet Cake you’ll LOVE our cookie version! Texas Sheet Cake cookies are everything you love about the classic dessert in cookie form. Rich chocolate flavor, soft, and smothered in a smooth and delicious frosting. We can’t get enough of these cookies!
You might also like our rocky road Texas Sheet Cake, our peanut butter sheet cake or our homemade Hostess cupcakes (made with a chocolate cake mix!).
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I am so stinkin’ proud of these cookies! A simple adaptation of our rocky road cookies, which are an adaptation of our double chocolate cookies. I’m telling you, when you figure out a good basic cookie dough you’ll find yourself using it a million different ways. Our Texas Sheet Cake cookie version is, hands down, my favorite version using this chocolate cookie dough. These are unbelievable and SO easy to make.
I love the glossy layer of melted chocolate frosting on Texas Sheet Cake that you pour onto the hot cake. These cookies are made these made the same way! Fudgey in the center, and coated in a smooth frosting that hardens as it cools.
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
This recipe makes 2 1/2 dozen delicious cookies that stay soft for days. Ready to make a batch? Let’s get started!
Texas Sheet Cake Cookie Ingredients
Cookies:
- melted butter
- cocoa powder
- white sugar
- brown sugar
- eggs
- vanilla
- salt
- baking soda
- flour
Frosting
- butter
- powdered sugar
- cocoa powder
- vanilla
- milk
How To Make Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
I use my stand mixer for making cookies, but a hand mixer or Danish dough whisk works as well.
Combine melted butter and cocoa powder in a large bowl and mix. Add sugars and mix until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients.
Allow dough to chill in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes. You don’t need to chill very long, just enough for the dough to set up enough to form into cookie balls.
While the dough chills, beat the frosting ingredients together. Set aside.
Use a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp. size) to drop cookies on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes (DO NOT OVERBAKE!) Leave cookies on a baking sheet instead of moving them to a cooling rack. They will set up slightly as they stay on the hot sheet.
As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, spoon on a tablespoon of frosting onto each cookie. I use a small cookie scoop (1 Tbsp. size). Let stand 3 minutes. It will become glossy and soft.
Spread frosting over cookie and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Allow cookies to cool completely. The frosting will harden slightly making it the perfect texture.
Store cookies at room temperature in an airtight container or covered with plastic wrap. They will stay soft for 3 days.
Texas Sheet Cake Cookie Recipe
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
Ingredients
COOKIES
- 1 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
FROSTING
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 4 Tbsp milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Topping
- 2/3 cup chopped nuts pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Combine melted butter and cocoa powder. Stir until smooth.
- Cream brown sugar and white sugar with the butter/cocoa mixture.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Stir in salt, baking soda, and flour.
- Chill dough for 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix frosting ingredients and beat until smooth and creamy.
- Scoop dough onto cookie sheets using a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp. size).
- Bake cookies for 9 minutes.
- As soon as cookies come out of the oven scoop 1 tablespoon of frosting onto each cookie. Allow cookies to sit 3 minutes to allow frosting to soften and begin to melt.
- Spread frosting over cookies.
- Sprinkle with chopped nuts, if desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!
These sound delicious! Do you think they would freeze well? I need to ship them.
Hi Susan! I haven’t ever tried freezing them but would imagine they’d be fine.
We love Texas Sheer cakes
So I had to try these. They did not disappoint !! They were delish!!! Thanks you for sharing!!
Awesome! I’m so glad!
Made the texas sheet cake cookies!! so yummy! did not change a thing!!! except added sugar crystals on top instead of the nuts and that is just because that is what I had on hand very good!!!
Thank you for sharing your recipe!!
Sugar crystals sound yummy too! So glad you liked them!