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I signed up for this about a month ago and completely forgot it was time! I cannot get over the fact that we have less than 12 weeks left until Christmas. Wow.

I’ve just started to focus on the holiday’s so I’m a couple of days late in posting this one. You can expect a Christmas cookie recipe each Thursday until Christmas here on my blog. As Christmas draws closer, our family starts baking cookies several times a week, because we love to hand them out to neighbors, teachers, friends & family.

My first Christmas Cookie is actually super simple, and we make them all year round (actually we make most of our cookies all year round) and we call them Simple Chocolate Sugar Cookies. Nothing super fancy, just a really nice, moist, chocolaty cookie that’s pretty quick and easy to make. I have no idea where this recipe came from, because like many of my recipes, it’s actually locked in my head and not on paper. I had to measure as I went to be able to tell you what I did.

Simple Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Makes about 2 dozen cookies
(printable recipe for Simple Chocolate Sugar Cookies below)

• 1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 c. sugar
• 2 sticks butter, room temperature
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c. cocoa

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease your cookie pans.

In a large bowl, mix up the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt & sugar.

On low speed, add the butter.

Then the egg. Mix well.

Then add the cocoa powder and mix well until the dough kind of sticks to itself and not to everything else.

Form rounded teaspoon balls of batter and place them on your prepared cooking pan or on a pan covered in parchment paper. Make sure you leave about 2-3 inches between cookies because if you don’t, you will wind up with one giant cookie at the end. Before putting them in the oven, moisten the back of a spoon and gently press each ball to flatten a bit.

Bake for about 8-10 minutes.

Remove from oven and allow to cool on cookie pan for 2 minutes. Then move to cooling racks.

Eat & Enjoy as soon as you’re ready! Yum!

Simple Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Yield: 2 dozen

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

These Simple Chocolate Sugar Cookies are rich with chocolate flavor, soft and moist but super simple to make.

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Ingredients

• 1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 c. sugar
• 2 sticks butter, room temperature
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c. cocoa

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease your cookie pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix up the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt & sugar.
3. On low speed, add the butter.
4. Then the egg. Mix well.
5. Then add the cocoa powder and mix well until the dough kind of sticks to itself and not to everything else.
6. Form rounded teaspoon balls of batter and place them on your prepared cooking pan or on a pan covered in parchment paper. Make sure you leave about 2-3 inches between cookies because if you don’t, you will wind up with one giant cookie at the end. Before putting them in the oven, moisten the back of a spoon and gently press each ball to flatten a bit.
7. Bake for about 8-10 minutes.
8. Remove from oven and allow to cool on cookie pan for 2 minutes. Then move to cooling racks.

Nicole Cook

Nicole Cook is the owner/editor of Daily Dish Recipes, a lifestyle blog with an emphasis on food/cooking/cocktails and much more.
She calls the Midwest home – Missouri to be exact. Coffee is her go-to drink, music is her vice and she is endlessly tethered with devices to her online world. She loves all things planner, lives for her great big family and loves her pets endlessly!
Her motto in life: Live Simply, Dream Big, Be Grateful, Give Love, Laugh Lots. Always, always laugh lots.

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