Meet your new best friend, chocolate cinnamon cookies!

These treats are filled with cocoa powder and lightly spiced with cinnamon then rolled in white sanding sugar for sparkle.

 You’re going to love them. 

Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies

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This recipe is inspired from a recipe in Food Network magazine for cocoa snickerdoodles. I’ve reduced the amount of cream of tartar in the magazine’s recipe and increased the cinnamon.

Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies are an easy drop cookie recipe that taste more sophisticated than you might imagine for a drop dough. 

Attributes:

• -travel well
• -good choice for bake sales and cookie swaps
• -Perfect with coffee or red wine

Tools I used for this recipe include:

1. half sheet pan
2. parchment paper
3. cookie scoop (I use something similar from a kitchen supply store). If you have trouble with cookies that don’t look round or uniform in size, you need to use a cookie scoop.

Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies

Yield: 36

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 27 minutes

Chocolate cinnamon cookies are filled with cocoa powder and brown sugar and gently spiced with cinnamon then rolled in white sanding sugar for a bit of sparkle. 

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Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• four ounces white sanding sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. Whisk dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. Beat butter and sugars in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Increase the speed to medium high and beat until fluffy, about 2 more minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla;
3. Reduce speed to low and mix in the flour mixture until just combined.
4. Put the sanding sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon in a small bowl.
5. Use small cookie dough scoop to form dough into balls. Place on a damp paper towel briefly. Then put the balls of dough into cinnamon sugar mixture to coat. Bake about three inches apart on a baking sheet at 350 for 12 minutes. Let cool on a rack.

Tell me what your favorite cookie is. Have you ever had chocolate cinnamon cookies? What do you think of the flavor combination?