Favorite Chewy Gluten-Free Chocolate Cookies
With beautiful crackled tops, crisp edges, and chewy centers, these gluten-free chocolate cookies do not disappoint! Rich with cocoa powder and a handful of chopped milk chocolate. Easy to make, no chilling of dough required.
Yield: 16 cookies
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons (142 grams) softened unsalted butter
- 245 grams cane sugar
- 40 grams brown sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 1 egg yolk room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 220 grams Bob's Red Mill 1-1 Gluten-Free Baking Flour, in the blue bag
- 3/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 1 teaspoon espresso powder
- 45 grams dutch processed cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 1/2 ounces milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
Equipment
Instructions
- Cream the butter for one minute. It will be lighter in color and fluffier. Add sugars and cream for 2 more minutes, scraping down sides at least once. The sugar will start to dissolve into the butter, and the texture will be lighter and fluffier.
- Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl. Add egg, egg yolk, and vanilla, mix on low speed to combine.
- In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, espresso powder, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Add dry ingredients while mixer is low speed, for 30 seconds. Then turn speed up to medium for 30 seconds to full combine.
- Remove bowl from mixer and add chopped chocolate. Use spatula to fully combine and disperse chocolate.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Let your dough rest on the counter, covered, while the oven preheats. When ready, make 55 gram dough balls with your hands, and roll in extra cane sugar. Place 6 on a baking sheet and bake for 12-13 minutes, rotating the baking sheet when they're halfway done, and baking until tops are just set. (They won't have all the crinkles yet, those will come as the cookies cool.)
- Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet, where they will continue to finish baking. If you'd like perfectly round cookies, use a large biscuit cutter to create the roundness right when they are out of the oven, as shown in this quick video.