Name: Gluten-free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 29 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, (melted); 1/4 cup cocoa powder, (Hershey's special dark); 1 1/4 cup gluten-free 1:1 baking flour blend, (Pamela's Artisan Blend All-purpose); 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 cup brown sugar; 1 egg + 1 egg yolk; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, (plus extra to press into cookies before baking (optional))

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This one is for the chocolate lovers! These Gluten-free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies are a chewy, fudgy chocolate lovers dream! Get yours quick before they disappear!

A stack of gluten-free double chocolate cookies. The top cookie is half eaten. There is a chocolate drip falling from one of the chocolate chips.

Sometimes you want chocolate and other times you want all the chocolate. That’s when you take the standard chocolate chip cookie and double the chocolate! What could go wrong? Nothing, actually! Turns out a simple tweak turns a typical chocolate chip cookie into the best darn double chocolate cookie you can imagine! Chocolate craving satisfied!

Soft and Chewy Gluten-free Cookies

My house is full of chocolate lovers, so when I made several batches of these cookies for testing purposes, no one complained… and they were all devoured. I really wanted to nail the texture with a cookie that was chewy and soft, almost brownie-like, not crispy. I am happy to report that the final recipe is chewy, fudgy perfection, which is saying something for a gluten-free cookie! It’s kind of tricky to get that texture with a gluten-free cookie, but this one does it!

Ingredients

Cocoa Powder: I used Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder.
Gluten-free Flour Blend: A 1:1 or Cup-for-Cup baking blend. I use Pamela’s Artisan Blend All-purpose Flour.
Baking Soda & Salt
1 Egg + 1 Egg Yolk: This is important for the texture!
Brown Sugar
Butter
Vanilla
Chocolate Chips: I preferred semi-sweet but you can use any kind you like, white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips! Or get nuts and do a combo!

Blooming Cocoa Powder

The first and most arguably most important step of these cookies is blooming the cocoa powder. It really brings out the flavor of the cocoa powder and makes the fudgiest cookie! To do this:

Whisk the cocoa powder into warm melted butter until dissolved.
Let that sit for 2 minutes or so while you measure out the other ingredients.
That’s it!

Pouring the cocoa powder into the melted butter and whisking until dissolved.

Mixing the Cookies

The remaining steps are just like traditional cookie making steps!

A collage showing the steps to making the cookie dough.

Blend the butter/cocoa mixture together with the brown sugar.
Then mix in the eggs and vanilla.
Mix in the dry ingredients.
Then stir in the chocolate chips!
Once the dough is mixed, roll 1 tablespoon-sized portions of dough into balls. Press a few extra chocolate chips into the outside of each dough ball. This step isn’t required but do it if you like to see chocolate chips on the outside of your cookies once they are baked!

The cookie dough in a bowl and some cookie dough rolled into balls on a parchment lined sheet pan.

Now it’s time to bake these delicious chocolate cookies!

A speckled baking pan filled with GF double chocolate chip cookies.

All the heart eye emojis for these cookies, am I right?! Look at those crackly, chocolatey, fudgy cookies just waiting to be devoured! I’m drooling, are you?

Pro Tips!

Prepare the cookies as directed. Skipping out on blooming the cocoa powder or skimping on the extra egg yolk will really affect the results!
You don’t need to chill the dough, which means your chocolate craving gets fulfilled even faster!
Don’t overbake! Unless you want them to have crisper edges.
Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.
Freeze cookie dough balls, unbaked. Then bake a fresh cookie or two whenever the chocolate craving hits! Bake the cookies from frozen, no need to thaw, you may need to add an extra minute or two to the baking time.

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