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

Name: Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon 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

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This recipe is inspired from a recipe in Food Network magazine for cocoa snickerdoodles.

Do you remember a food blog called the Bitten Word?

Clay and Zach would test recipes from a fresh crop of food magazines each month.

During the holidays, the pair would enlist readers to help recipe test, especially for the giant Christmas cookie issues.

I was assigned the cocoa snickerdoodles and I fell in love I tell you.

These cookies remind me a lot of a really great bread that Starbucks had for a while.

It was chocolate bread with a thick crust of cinnamon sugar.

So, so, so, so, so good!

But I digress. Back to this cookie.

Because I can't leave any recipe alone, I've reduced the amount of cream of tartar in the orginal recipe and increased the cinnamon.

Kind of the way I increased all the spices in my grandmother's gingersnap recipe.

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

Why You Need Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies in Your Life:

Yes, they are delicious, but these cookies also travel well.

They are sturdy so a good choice for bake sales or shipping care packages to soldiers or college kids.

It's an easy drop cookie recipe.

I made these for the last cookie exchange I went to and everyone wanted the recipe.

Do you ever get invited to a cookie exchange and then struggle to figure out what to bake because your annoying neighbor snagged your favorite recipe the nanosecond she got her invitation?

You don't want to bake anything too intricate.

You've got other things to do in December besides bake for one party.

But you want to bring something that isn't the same old, same old.

Chocolate cinnamon cookies are your solution.

Tools I used for this recipe include:

half sheet pan

parchment paper

cookie scoop

(I have this Winco model, which amounts to a decent sized cookie, nearly 2 tablespoons of cookie dough. If you have trouble with cookies that don't look round or uniform in size, you need to use a cookie scoop.)

Yield: 36

Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies

Move over peanut butter, chocolate has a new best friend: cinnamon. Chocolate cinnamon cookies are a treat you need in your dessert arsenal.

These 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.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 27 minutes

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
four ounces white sanding sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

Whisk dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
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;
Reduce speed to low and mix in the flour mixture until just combined.
Put the sanding sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon in a small bowl.
Use small cookie dough scoop to form dough into balls. Roll balls briefly over a damp paper towel then coat with cinnamon sugar before baking.
Bake about three inches apart on a baking sheet at 350 for 12 minutes. Let cool on a rack.

Notes

You can use any variety of cinnamon for this cookie.

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