Texas Sheet Cake Cookies

Texas Sheet Cake Cookies

yields 24 cookies

Ingredients:

Cookies:

-1/2 cup butter, softened

-1/3 cup sugar

-1 egg

-1 tsp. vanilla

-1 tsp. baking powder

-1/2 tsp. salt

-1 1/3 cup flour

-1/2  cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted

Icing:

-1/2 cup butter

-2 Tbsp. cocoa powder

-3 Tbsp. milk

-2 tsp. vanilla (I added this because every recipe could use more vanilla)

-2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In the bowl of a stand mixer beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and mix until combined. Mix in baking soda and salt. Turn mixer to low and slowly add flour. The dough will be thick and look like sugar cookie dough. 

In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate chips in 30 second intervals until melted. I did 30 seconds, stirred, then only needed 15 more seconds. Mix the melted chocolate into the dough. 

Scoop tablespoon sized cookies onto baking sheets. Bake for 7-8 minutes, but don't over bake. 

While your cookies are cooling, melt butter, cocoa powder, milk and vanilla in a sauce pan over medium heat. Whisk in powdered sugar until all the lumps are gone and the icing is thin. Use a tablespoon to pour the warm icing over the cookies. Using a wire rack would make more sense, but I let the cookies just sit in puddles of icing.