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Fans of devil’s food cake are going to love these devil’s food cookies! They combine a variety of chocolate chips along with butter, sugar and a touch of vanilla. They are just bursting with chocolate flavor. Pair them with your morning coffee or cozy up with a glass of milk before bedtime and one (or two!) of these gorgeously rich cookies. These delicious cookies are a chocolate lover’s dream when the cookie craving hits!
Anyone with a sweet tooth and a weakness for chocolate is sure to fall in love with these rich and indulgent devil’s food cookies.
You might also like Almond Joy cookies, chocolate cornflake cakes, vanilla cookies, and boozy peanut butter hot chocolate.
Why You’ll Love It
Really delicious: Anyone who likes chocolate is going to love these delicious devil’s food cookies. Those rich chocolate flavors along with a little vanilla make them absolutely irresistible, and so much better than cake mix cookies made with dry cake mix.
Easy to make: You pretty much just have to combine the ingredients, scoop the dough into cookies and bake. There’s minimal prep time and they don’t take long to cook either – they can be ready in under half an hour.
Great for any occasion: These cookies are easy and tasty enough to whip up regularly for the family and they’re also suitable for any get-together, party or special occasion.
Devil’s Food Cookie Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Chocolate chips: Milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and mini chocolate chips feature in these cookies.
Chocolate chunks and cocoa powder: To make them even richer.
Vanilla paste: For another flavor to complement the chocolate taste.
Granulated sugar: To add sweetness.
Baking powder: To get the texture just right.
How to Make Devil’s Food Chocolate Cookies
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Preheat oven: Preheat the oven.
Melt the semi sweet chocolate chips: Melt them in the microwave.
Combine the ingredients: Stir the flour with the cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl, and then mix in the chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and vanilla, and blend in the melted semi sweet chocolate chips in a large bowl, using an electric mixer. Combine this mixture with the dry mixture in the large mixing bowl to make the cookie dough.
Scoop the dough into cookies: Shape dough into balls with a cookie scoop and press them on to prepared baking sheets lined with parchment paper or silicon mats.
Bake the devil’s food cookies: Bake in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes or until done, then cool completely.
Substitutions and Variations
Gluten-free option: If you want a gluten-free version, use gluten-free flour and choose gluten-free chocolate chips.
Different chocolate: You can use any chocolate chips you want – dark, white, milk, semi sweet, bittersweet – just use whichever you prefer in your devils food cookies.
Another extract: Swap the vanilla extract for hazelnut extract, rum extract, or another kind.
Throw in some nuts: A handful of chopped nuts adds another texture to the cookies.
Serving Suggestions
Snacks: Tasty savory snacks to pair with these cookies include boiled peanuts and cheddar bacon scones.
Desserts: More sweet treats to serve with devil’s food cake cookies include vanilla muffins and this apple loaf.
Drinks: Italian cream soda is really tasty with devil’s food cookies, or homemade limoncello.
How to Store Devil’s Food Cake Cookies
Store: Keep these cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator and eat within a week.
Freeze: You can freeze them in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Thaw: Defrost it in the refrigerator overnight.
Top Tips
The perfect sweetness: Taste the dough as you go. These cookies are really sweet. If they’re too sweet for you, you can reduce the amount of brown and/or granulated sugar.
Mixing the dough: Use a hand mixer to blend the dough, or a Danish dough whisk (I have this one!) or even a wooden spoon – whatever you have.
Cooling the cookies: Cool them on the baking sheet for a couple of minutes to firm them up and then let them cool completely on a wire rack. They’ll get a little soggy from the steam if you leave them on the cookie sheets.
Devil’s Food Cookie FAQs
Both will work, so just use whichever you have. Vanilla paste and vanilla extract are very similar to each other in flavor.
Cool them completely on cooling racks so the excess moisture can evaporate as they cool. It’s important to keep devil’s food cookies in an airtight container. Something I like to do is add a slice of bread to the container too – it will soak up any excess moisture and prolong the freshness of your cookies.
This refers to cake or cookies made with cocoa powder in addition to chocolate, for a super-rich result. It’s also believed to refer back to a time when recipes that were really rich or indulgent used the name, such as deviled eggs and deviled ham.
Devil’s Food Cookie Recipe
Devil’s Food Cookies
Equipment
- Silicon Mat or Parchment Paper
Ingredients
- 1 Cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 Cup all purpose flour
- ¼ Cup cocoa powder
- 1 Teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ Teaspoon salt
- ½ Cup white chocolate chips
- ½ Cup mini chocolate chips
- ½ Cup chocolate chunks
- ½ Cup salted butter, 1 stick
- ½ Cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ Cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla paste, or 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a cookie sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a microwave proof bowl, melt the semi-sweet chocolate chips. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the white chocolate chips, mini chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. Mix until the chocolates are coated with the flour mixture. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix until all ingredients are combined. I used a hand mixer, but you can also use a Danish dough whisk or a mixing spoon.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well in between each addition.
- Add the vanilla paste with the last egg. Mix well.
- Add the melted chocolate chips and mix until both mixture are combined.
- Blend the dry mixture into the wet mixture. Mix until all ingredients are combined, and you don’t see dry flour.
- Use a medium-sized cookie scoop, 1½ tablespoons, to scoop the dough into balls.
- Slightly press down with your fingers or the back of a spoon.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 9 to 11 minutes or until the edges are set and the center is soft.
- Cool on the cookie sheet for 1 or 2 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
Notes
Mixing the dough: Use a hand mixer to blend the dough, or a Danish dough whisk or even a wooden spoon – whatever you have.
Cooling the cookies: Cool them on the baking sheet for a couple of minutes to firm them up and then let them cool completely on a wire rack. They’ll get a little soggy from the steam if you leave them on the cookie sheets.
Nutrition
These rich and indulgent devil’s food cookies are perfect for chocolate lovers. Blending vanilla with three kinds of chocolate chips along with chocolate chunks and cocoa powder, they’re so delicious. If you’re expecting company, looking for a tasty cookie recipe to surprise the family or you simply have a very sweet tooth, these dreamy devils food cookies are sure to make your day!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
I love love cookies! And since I’ve tried it once, I’ve made it a couple more times. Can’t say I love it enough!
I am a huge fan of anything chocolate and these cookies did not disappoint! Glad I tested them out!