These soft and chewy Chocolate Fudge Cookies are the ultimate chocolate cookies! Fudgy cookies are packed with chocolate chips, with a gorgeous crackled top just like your favorite double fudge brownies.

Chocolate fudge cookies with crinkly tops on a piece of parchment paper. Chocolate chips are arranged around the cookies.

If you came here for some chocolate, I am ready to deliver! These chocolate fudge cookies are the most amazingly chocolatey cookies I’ve made to date, and obviously, I’ve made a lot of cookies.

Not only are the cookies rich and fudgy, but I’m adding extra chocolate chips to take the recipe to the next level.

You can call these double chocolate cookies, chocolate chocolate cookies, chocolate fudge cookies, or even death by chocolate cookies. Whatever you want to call them, I know that they are the answer to any intense chocolate craving, and will be on your list of favorite cookie recipes for years to come!

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four chocolate cookies, stacked. The top cookie has a bite taken to show the melty chocolate chips and fudgy texture.

Table of Contents

Chocolate Fudge Cookie Highlights

Rich Chocolate Flavor. Chocolate fudge cookies have chocolate in them three times! We’ll use cocoa powder and melted chocolate in the dough, and then fold in even more semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Soft, Chewy, Fudgy Texture. These cookies will remind you of a rich chocolate fudge brownie. The outer edges are lightly crisp and delicate, but the centers are chewy, dense, and amazing!
An Easy Drop Cookie Recipe. Drop cookie recipes are some of the easiest cookies out there. Simply mix up the dough, chill it, and then drop it onto the baking sheet. There’s no need to roll out cookie dough, add decorations, or form anything by hand.

Key Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make chocolate fudge cookies with chocolate chips and cocoa powder

Complete list of ingredients with quantities and instructions is located in the recipe card below

Semisweet Chocolate: For the melted chocolate that goes into the cookie dough, I’m using a high quality semi-sweet chocolate bar, cut into chunks. Bar chocolate melts better than chocolate chips do, and has a smoother texture.
Cocoa Powder: Unsweetened cocoa powder is the next layer of rich chocolate flavor that goes into these fudgy cookies.
Chocolate Chips: More chocolate! Semi-sweet chocolate chips give these cookies pockets of pure chocolate in every single bite.
Sugar: To keep these cookies soft and moist, we’ll use both granulated sugar and brown sugar.
Butter: Unsalted butter is your best choice for baking, since you can control exactly how much salt goes into your recipe. There’s no need to soften the butter, we’ll be melting it.
Eggs: One of my favorite baking tips is to let the eggs come to room temperature before baking with them. Cold eggs won’t mix into the batter evenly.

How To Make The Best Chocolate Fudge Cookies

melted chocolate chips in a small glass bowl with a metal spoon in it. — 1. **Melt Chocolate:** Microwave the chopped chocolate and butter in 30 second intervals, until it’s smooth.

dry ingredients for fudge chocolate cookies in a glass bowl with a small whisk. — 2. **Mix Dry Ingredients:** Combine flour with cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.

a large glass bowl holding two cracked eggs, brown sugar, white sugar. — 3. **Mix the wet Ingredients:** In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, sugars, vanilla extract and milk.

melted chocolate and butter in a glass measuring cup, stirred with a wooden spoon — 4. **Add the chocolate:** Stir the melted chocolate mixture into the wet ingredients.

cocoa powder and flour added to cookie dough with a wooden spoon in a glass bowl. — 5. **Combine wet and dry:** Add the flour mixture and stir just until combined.

Chocolate chips added to chocolate fudge cookie dough in a glass mixing bowl. — 6. **Add more chocolate!** Fold in the semi-sweet chocolate chips.

a cookie scoop lifting up chocolate fudge cookie dough from a bowl. — 7. Chill the dough: Cover the bowl and place it in the fridge for at least 1 hour so that it’s firm enough to work with.

chocolate cookie dough on a parchment lined baking sheet in balls, topped with extra chocolate chips — 8. **Scoop:** Drop the dough with a cookie scoop onto parchment lined baking sheets. Press extra chocolate chips into the cookies if desired.

Soft baked chocolate fudge cookies on a pan lined with parchment paper — 9. **Bake:** Bake your fudge cookies in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies have puffed and then settled with cracks on top. Cool on the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.

Top Tips

Chill the dough thoroughly. This cookie dough will be wet and very sticky when you’re finished mixing it. Chilling will allow the butter to solidify again and make the dough easy to handle.
Don’t overmix the dough. Overmixed chocolate cookie dough can lead to tough, dry cookies. Stir the flour into the wet ingredients until you can’t see any dry streaks anymore, then stop!
Don’t overbake. It’s hard to tell when chocolate cookies are done because you won’t necessarily see them brown or turn golden. Instead, look for the outer edges of the cookies to be dry, and the tops to be just barely set. The center of the cookies will finish cooking while the cookies cool.
Add extras: This recipe calls for 1 cup of chocolate chips. You can use just a half cup of chocolate chips and a half cup of just about anything else! Try these with walnuts, white chocolate chips, or chopped peanut butter cups.
Try some sea salt: A sprinkle of flaky sea salt added to the top of these cookies as soon as they come out of the oven would be divine!

Two chocolate chocolate chip cookies on a wooden board. One has a bite to show the fudgy texture inside.

The Best Way to Store Chocolate Cookies

You have leftovers? I’m shocked! But you can store them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.

If they should dry out, try placing a slice of white bread or a flour tortilla in the container overnight. The cookies should magically soften again!

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Recipe FAQs

Can These Cookies Be Frozen?

Yes! Chocolate fudge cookies freeze really well. Keep them in a freezer bag or a freezer safe airtight container for up to 3 months. Allow them to thaw out before enjoying.

Why Do I Need to Chill the Cookie Dough?

Similarly to crinkle cookies, this cookie dough is made with melted butter. This makes the recipe super simple to mix up, but it does require chilling.

That melted butter needs to be chilled in order to solidify again. If you try to bake these cookies before the dough is chilled, they will spread way too much.

Can I Make Substitutions?

I have not tested this recipe with vegan or gluten free substitutes, but there are many excellent products on the market that should help you to adjust this recipe if needed. Try it with 1:1 gluten-free flour or vegan butter. The milk can be replaced with any type of dairy free milk as well.

Set yourself up with a tall, cold glass of milk and enjoy a few moments of chocolate fudge cookie bliss with this easy recipe! Don’t forget to Pin it so that more people can try it too!