This Chocolate Gingerbread Man Cookies recipe has the firmness of sugar cookies, so you can use your Christmas gingerbread cookie cutters to make chocolate gingerbread men.
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Indulge in a delightful twist on a holiday classic: Chocolate Gingerbread Men.
Crafted from a tender, buttery chocolate sugar cookie dough, these little figures boast an intense, fudgy cocoa flavor with soft centers and delicately crisp edges.
Shape them with your favorite gingerbread man cutter, then bring them to life with simple royal icing smiles, white chocolate details, or colorful sprinkles. They’re just as fun to decorate as the classics, but with the rich taste of chocolate brownies in cookie form.
They bring a touch of elegance and fun to any holiday spread. Perfect for holiday platters, gift tins, or cozy evenings by the tree, these chocolate gingerbread men are a fresh, irresistible spin on a beloved shape—pure chocolate joy in every bite. One bite, and these charming chocolate gingerbread men will quickly become a new seasonal favorite.
Prep-Ahead Tip: This chocolate cookie dough needs to chill for at least 2 hours, but you can make it a day or two ahead if you wish.
Chocolate Gingerbread Man Cookies Recipe
These adorable Chocolate Gingerbread Man Cookies are made with a chocolate sugar cookie recipe creating a delicious twist on gingerbread men.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and then add the vanilla.
3. Slowly add the flour mixture into the creamed butter and beat it until just combined.
4. Remove the dough from bowl bowl and place it on waxed paper or plastic wrap. Shape into a square, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to overnight.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
6. Roll out the cookie dough to ¼ inch thickness.
7. Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut out the cookies from the dough.
8. Place the cut out cookies on the baking sheet.
9. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes until edges of the cookies are set. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.
10. Cool the cookies completely before decorating them.
How to Decorate Gingerbread Men Cookies
There are many options for decorating the cookies. You can use our Butter Cream Frosting Recipe, Crisco Frosting Recipe, or our Royal Icing Recipe to ice the cookies.
You can use candy eyes or pipe the eyes and mouth on the face.
Sprinkles or sugar crystals can always be added on top of your icing to add texture or design. But you can also leave them off.
For our Chocolate Gingerbread Man Cookies, we piped them with Royal Icing though you can use the little containers of store-bought icing.
Then we thinned the Royal Icing to create flood icing to fill the piped areas with more icing to create a shirt on the gingerbread man and a dress on the gingerbread woman.
To make the gingerbread man’s pants, flood the pants area with red icing. Then add several lines of of green icing. Run a toothpick through the icing to create a pattern in the pants.
Printable Recipe for Chocolate Gingerbread Man Cookies
Chocolate Gingerbread Men Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and then vanilla.
- Slowly add flour mixture and beat just until combined.
- Remove dough from bowl to waxed paper or plastic wrap. Shape into a square, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness and cut using cookie cutter. Place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes until edges are set. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
- Cool completely before decorating as desired.
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