4th of July Chocolate Cookies
Yield
60 Cookies
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
8 minutes
Total Time
28 minutes
Chocolate cookies covered with our Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and decorated with pretty Red White and Blue M&M Flowers. These 4th of July Chocolate Cookies will be a big hit at your Independence Day party or Memorial Day Barbecue.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (Sweet Cream, Salted)
- 3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 2/3 cup Brown Sugar (packed)
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2/3 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 batch of our The Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Red White and Blue Holiday Mix M&M's - 2 Bags
Instructions
- Mix dry ingredients together and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars.
- Mix in Eggs and Vanilla.
- Fold in dry ingredients.
- Measure .5 oz of cookie dough on a food scale for each cookie.
- Roll the chocolate cookie dough into a ball. Slightly press down the cookie dough ball on the cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies in a 350 degree oven for 7-8 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool.
- Make a half batch of our The Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and use it to frost the chocolate cookies.
- For each M&M flower you will need 7 M&M's. Press one in the center of the cookie and press the remaining six M&M's around the first M&M to make a flower pattern.
- Allow the cookies to set before you store them.
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