This Chocolate Drop Cookies are perfect for Christmas cookie swaps!
It’s the most marvelous time of the year! It’s time for cookie swaps and taking goodie baskets to our neighbors and friends. I always enjoy baking, but there is just something a little magical about baking at the holidays. It is when I pull out all of the stops creating decadent, mouth-watering treats that will put a smile on the face of everyone who tries them.
This recipe starts with melting half a bag of DovePromises Dark Chocolate. They look as smooth and silky when they melt as they taste. The hardest part of making these cookies is not taking a spoon to that melted chocolate! Fondue anyone???
The other half of the bag of Promises is chopped up and added to the batter. Wait. The hardest part of making this recipe might be not nibbling on all of this deliciously rich dark chocolate while chopping it.
Christmas Chocolate Drop Cookies Recipe
- 1 bag Dove Promises Dark Chocolate
- 8 tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 2 cups chopped nuts: such as walnuts, pecans or toasted almonds
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line the sheet pans with foil and set aside.
- Melt half of the Dove Promises Dark Chocolate with the butter in the top of a double
- boiler until smooth.
- Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, roughly chop the remaining chocolate and set aside.
- To make the batter, combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a small bowl, set
- aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until thick and light yellow, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in flour mixture and cooled chocolate and beat for 1 minute.
- Fold in the remaining chopped Dove Promises Dark Chocolate and nuts.
- Drop tablespoons of batter onto the prepared cookie sheet pans about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes, or until just firm.
- Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and cool for 5 minutes before removing from the cookie sheet pans.
The Christmas Chocolate Drop Cookies are crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside and infused with a rich chocolate taste. They are sure to put a smile on everyone’s face!
Printable Recipe for Christmas Chocolate Drop Cookies
- 1 bag Dove Promises Dark Chocolate
- 8 tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 2 cups chopped nuts: such as walnuts, pecans or toasted almonds
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line the sheet pans with foil and set aside.
- Melt half of the Dove Promises Dark Chocolate with the butter in the top of a double
- boiler until smooth.
- Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, roughly chop the remaining chocolate and set aside.
- To make the batter, combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a small bowl, set
- aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until thick and light yellow, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in flour mixture and cooled chocolate and beat for 1 minute.
- Fold in the remaining chopped Dove Promises Dark Chocolate and nuts.
- Drop tablespoons of batter onto the prepared cookie sheet pans about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes, or until just firm.
- Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and cool for 5 minutes before removing from the cookie sheet pans.
More Christmas Cookie Recipes
Peppermint Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
Mini Chocolate Chip & Peppermint Gingerbread Cookies
How to Decorate Holly Leaf Sugar Cookies
How to Decorate Shepherd’s Hook Sugar Cookies
This chocolate drop cookie recipe was originally published on November 11, 2013. It was updated on December 17, 2019.
April @ The 21st Century Housewife says
Your Chocolate Drop Cookies sound like a wonderful Christmas treat – so delicious with the Dove chocolate!
Susan says
This looks like a wonderful recipe. I am going to use it for part of my contribution for the cookie walk benefitting her high school choir. I like to keep things simple and dekicious for quantity baking.
Dawn @ Words Of Deliciousness says
These are my kind of cookie. If I made these cookies I don’t think I would have any left over for goodie baskets for the neighbors, I would eat them all of them.