Chocolate Sugar Cookies With Chocolate Buttercream
Chocolate sugar cookies with chocolate buttercream are delicious and easy to customize! Add mint extract for a chocolate mint version, or ice in peanut butter frosting for chocolate peanut butter sugar cookies.
Servings 36
Calories 271kcal
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup corn starch
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/3 cup baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 Tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter, shortening and vanilla. Mix until fluffy. Add sugar, egg and vanilla.
- In a seperate bowl combine flour, corn starch, baking cocoa and baking powder.
- Slowly mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until dough forms.
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop dough onto ungreased baking sheet.
- Roll each scoop of cookie dough into a smooth ball.
- Dip a glass in sugar and press down onto each cookie dough ball to flatten.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Let cookies stand on pan for 2-3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
- Beat frosting ingredients together and mix until fluffy. Add more or less milk until your frosting is the thickness you'd like.
- Spread frosting over cooled cookies.
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Notes
If using salted butter, no additional salt is necessary for the cookie dough. If using unsalted butter, add a 1/2 teaspoon of salt with the dry ingredients in the cookie dough.
Nutrition
Calories: 271kcal