Chocolate Cookie Recipes

Chocolate Cookies

Updated on March 12, 2018

Chocolate-Cayenne Cocktail Cookies — Photo: © Quentin Bacon

Whatever the form, be it sandwich or wafer, homemade chocolate cookies are a perennial favorite. Infused with butterscotch, hazelnut, and mint, these recipes are for chocolate lovers of all stripes.

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Chocolate-and-Pistachio Biscotti

Kevin Sbraga varies these wonderful nutty biscotti, sometimes dipping them in melted dark chocolate for an extra layer of flavor.

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Ganache-Stuffed Chocolate-Chip Cookies

A stuffed cookie is like a sandwich cookie, only with more cream on the inside — it's fatter, fuller and (if you're the kind of person who twists apart the cookies to get to the cream) better. Pastry chef Jessica Sullivan makes hers with nutty chocolate-chip cookies and silky chocolate ganache.

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Chocolate-Cayenne Cocktail Cookies

Dorie Greenspan loves using Valrhona cocoa to make these spicy, unexpectedly tender cookies, flecked with flaky Maldon salt. "It's so rich and dark," she says.

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Cherry-Nut Mudslides

Here is the chocolate lovers' cookie: a deeply rich, moist cookie speckled with hazelnuts, pistachios and dried cherries.

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Fudgy Chocolate-Walnut Cookies

New York pastry chef François Payard's divinely gooey chocolate cookies are flourless, which makes them ideal for Passover baking.

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Chocolate Cookies 'n' Cream Towers

Matt Lewis and Blair Vansant, specialize in homey desserts with a modern twist, like this tower of crispy chocolaty cookies sandwiched with chocolate pastry cream and whipped cream. When it comes time to assemble the parts, Lewis says, they never seem to have enough cookies — a result of excessive employee snacking.

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Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

These marvelous Christmas cookies combine chocolate with spicy gingerbread. "I was tired of basic gingerbread," says Matt Lewis. "And my connection to chocolate is really deep." An added benefit of these cookies: The supple dough is very easy to work with, and the scraps can be rerolled and cut out.

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Crispy Chocolate Cookies

From the authors of Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters, these slender wafers have a deep cocoa flavor and a wonderful cornmeal crunch.

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Cocoa Nib Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate with cocoa nibs adds an ingenious twist to the classic chocolate chip cookie.

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Butterscotch Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Be the star of a cookie swap with these gorgeous sandwich cookies. If you're feeling lazy, opt for Maury's Cookie Dough, available at most supermarkets.

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Sugar-Crusted Chocolate Cookies

This is Jacques Torres's recipe for sablés, a classic French butter cookie with a sandy, crumbly texture (sablé means "sandy") — though this fabulously dense version is actually more like shortbread.

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