Death by chocolate brownie cookies are not for the faint of heart. Do you put chocolate on your chocolate? Then these extremely decadent, soft AF double chocolate brownie cookies are perfect for you! A chocolate lovers dream!
These cookies are the perfect way to start off your Black Friday weekend. Rich dark cocoa powder, semi-sweet chocolate chunks, chopped dark chocolate and flaky sea salt. Delicious and easy, no wasting precious shopping hours here!
It’s true, I spent Thanksgiving Eve not prepping food for an extravagant Thanksgiving dinner for my family but instead spent hours testing chocolate on chocolate cookies and then spent another hour photographing them. I’ll admit I got zero prep work done for dinner the next day. But that’s all fine for me because at the end of the night, I still had these death buy chocolate cookies to eat.
Four kinds of chocolate in the brownie cookies
Let’s talk about all the different types of chocolate I used in these death by chocolate brownie cookies:
unsweetened cocoa powder
unsweetened special dark cocoa powder
semi sweet chocolate chunks
dark chocolate baking wafers – for the pools of chocolate on top *insert yaaas queen hands here*
flaked sea salt – not chocolate but worth mentioning because it compliments the chocolate so dang well!
Reducing the sugar content
Death by chocolate cookies sounds like it would also be death by sugar cookies. Luckily that’s not the case here. The chocolate chunks and wafers are going to have however much sugar chocolate it has in it but you can reduced the sugar content in these cookies by using a granulated erythritol for the sugar and brown sugar. I used Swerve and highly recommend their baking blends!
Chocolate lovers unite! I have more delicious chocolate filled recipes that I know you will love! Like this Dark Chocolate Cream Pie with Torched Meringue made gluten free or this Healthy Chocolate Marble Banana Bread!
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Death By Chocolate Brownie Cookies | Grain Free
Notes
These cookies will seem like they aren't done at 12 minutes of baking but I promise you that they will firm up.
Ingredients
- 1/2 c semi sweet chocolate chunks
- 1 1/2 c almond flour
- 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 c unsweetened special dark cocoa powder
- 1/2 c granulated erythritol (I used Swerve)
- 1/4 c brown sugar erythritol (I used Swerve)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg, large
- 1/2 c butter, cubed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 c semi sweet chocolate chunks, chopped
- 1/4 c dark chocolate wafers
- flaked sea salt for topping
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the 1/2 cup of semi sweet chocolate and then set aside too cool slightly.
- Meanwhile place the butter, almond flour, cocoa powders, granulated, brown sugar erythritol and baking soda into a food processor and pulse just until crumbles form. Add in the egg, melted chocolate and vanilla and continue pulsing until a dough forms.
- Remove the blades and fold in chopped chocolate. Chill dough in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Use a cookie scooper to make 2-inch round cookies and place them on the cookie sheet about 1-2 inches apart. Bake for 12 minutes. Immediately, drop 1-2 wafers onto the tops of the cookies and then allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Sprinkle with flaked sea salt.
Death By Chocolate Brownie Cookies | Grain Free
Notes
These cookies will seem like they aren't done at 12 minutes of baking but I promise you that they will firm up.
Ingredients
- 1/2 c semi sweet chocolate chunks
- 1 1/2 c almond flour
- 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 c unsweetened special dark cocoa powder
- 1/2 c granulated erythritol (I used Swerve)
- 1/4 c brown sugar erythritol (I used Swerve)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg, large
- 1/2 c butter, cubed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 c semi sweet chocolate chunks, chopped
- 1/4 c dark chocolate wafers
- flaked sea salt for topping
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the 1/2 cup of semi sweet chocolate and then set aside too cool slightly.
- Meanwhile place the butter, almond flour, cocoa powders, granulated, brown sugar erythritol and baking soda into a food processor and pulse just until crumbles form. Add in the egg, melted chocolate and vanilla and continue pulsing until a dough forms.
- Remove the blades and fold in chopped chocolate. Chill dough in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Use a cookie scooper to make 2-inch round cookies and place them on the cookie sheet about 1-2 inches apart. Bake for 12 minutes. Immediately, drop 1-2 wafers onto the tops of the cookies and then allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Sprinkle with flaked sea salt.
Hi. Can I make these with regular white sugar and brown sugar? Would the amounts be the same? Thanks in advance!
Hi Catherine,
Yes, I’m just swapping them out for those same amounts will work just fine. I haven’t tried it myself so let me know how it goes! <3
Hi, similar to the question above, but I am able to switch out almond flour for the regular flour? If so, what is the correct ratio? Thanks.
Hi Jessica, it get’s tricky with the flours but are you looking for a cookie that’s not grain free? If so, this cookie recipe is similar and you could just eliminate the peanut butter part. Hope this helps!
These cookies are life-changing and Ciarra is my hero. I didn’t know how incomplete my life was until I stumbled upon this recipe late at night and decided to try them as a gift for Father’s Day. Not only were the cookies a hit, but I was begged to make more. They’re brownie…cookies? Can’t describe them any better than that. So decadent, so soft and so chewy (in a good way). I used regular sugars instead of erythritol but otherwise followed the recipe to a T and I can’t even begin to go into how good these things are. They’re a religious experience. If you’re looking for that turning point in your life from bad to good, you can safely start here and years down the road look back on these as being the defining moment. All I can say is thank you – from the bottom of my heart – for this amazing recipe and all the work that I’m sure went into developing it.
YAY! I’m so happy to hear this! Glad you enjoyed the cookies. Thanks for stopping by 🙂