This is not your typical Texas Sheet Cake, but a cookie version that tastes just as amazing. One bite of these soft and fudgy Texas Sheet Cake Cookies will leave you reaching for more!
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
Everything began when Shelly from the blog Cookie and Cups decided to make her favorite cake into a cookies version. Of course, a great recipe like that could not stay unseen in the eyes of a chocoholic like me :). And when it was time for the cookies in my kitchen, it was already known which version will spread the smell from my oven – Texas Sheet Cake Cookies of course . And if you are wondering what taste do cookies topped with the classic poured chocolate icing have, the only thing I could say is: divine.
And if you don’t believe me, you can ask my choosy son Marco, for whom it is always difficult to accept something new in his repertoire of sweets. But this time, he was munching the chocolate cookies one after another! Well, I don’t know what Marco himself would tell you because he rarely says anything except “mommy” or “daddy”, but maybe the pictures on the post will tell you more then all of us together !
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Total Time: 38 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This is not your typical Texas Sheet Cake, but a cookie version that tastes just as amazing. One bite of these soft and fudgy Texas Sheet Cake Cookies will leave you reaching for more!
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 3.01 oz semi sweet baking chocolate) -melted
For the Icing:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 Tablespoon cocoa powder
- 3 Tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add in egg and vanilla and mix until well combined, mix in salt and baking powder.
- Gradually add in flour while mixing on low speed (dough should be thick)
- Mix in melted chocolate.
- Drop about Tablespoon size mound of a dough onto baking sheet.
- Bake about 8 minutes ( do not overbake them, the cookies should just appear set, but to stay soft on the inside).
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Icing
- Combine butter, cocoa powder, milk and vanilla in a medium sauce pan over medium heat, whisk until melted and combine, take from the heat and whisk in powdered sugar, pour over the cookies and cool completely.
37 comments
I love Texas Sheet Cake and can’t wait to make these!! I make a different version of the sheet cake called, Mexican Chocolate Cake. It’s pretty much the same, but I like my version of the cake better than the Texas cake….and so do my friends. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Mandi 🙂
Mandy – Don’t know if you will see this….but what is different about your Mexican Chocolate Cake? Would love a recipe.
Casey, it’s almost the same but with cinnamon, usually that’s the diff. HTH
Today is my FOURTH time to bake these cookies! My mom, my son, my friends, my son’s friends and even my husband LOVE them. Perfection 🙂
Lisa, I’m glad that you like them 🙂
My favorite cake, evah! I was wondering how these travel?
Hi,
I love Texas sheet cake and I tried your cookies yesterday to take to a church family day event. My cake recipe is made with buttermilk and cinnamon so I just add to add a tsp of cinnamon to your recipe! It was awesome and everyone of the cookies was gone from a table FULL of lots of desserts!
Thanks, I know I’ll use it again!
Thanks Carol 🙂
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Hi! These look super yummy. I pinned it last week and today I’m adding the ingredients to my shopping list. The measurement for 1/2 melted baking chocolate is hard to understand. . . usually, recipes call for a certain number of oz. of the chocolate and then you melt it. Can you help a newbie out?
Hi Juliann,I’m glad you asked, my mistake but I just corrected the recipe.It’s 3 oz. baking chocolate or 1/2 cup chocolate chips
I have not tried this recipe yet, but it sounds just FABULOUS! Wondering if these could be frozen for a couple of weeks…like for an early Christmas cookie exchange?
Thanks Shelly:0
I didn’t try to freeze them so I can’t help you with that.Sorry
Have you made this dough ahead of time and refrigerated before making?
Just veganized them with vegan marg and replaced the egg. The icing isn’t even on them yet and we’re devouring them! Omg!
We just made these tonight, and they are destined to be a new family favorite. Perfect texture and taste. Thanks!
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I just made these and they have no flavor. Also, the icing was separating and oily. What did I do wrong???
I’m sorry Shane, I don’t know what went wrong
These are amazing!! I made them tonight and they were a huge hit! Definitely on my go-to list from now on! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
I’m going to try these but will add cinnamon to the cookie and chopped pecans to the icing (the Texas Sheet cake recipe I have uses cinnamon and pecans along with buttermilk). They look awesome —
Is the cocoa powder sweetened or unsweetened?
Hi Sarah, it’s unsweetened cocoa powder.
Thanks!
These are the BEST cookies!!! My husband says that they are the best cookies that I’ve ever made. I double the batch every time I make them….which still isn’t enough. I never have leftovers. 🙂 So good!! ♡ Thank you for sharing such a good recipe! ♡
Great cookie recipe – very yummy! Mine flattened out more than yours, but were still tasty. On the second batch I chilled the dough for about 30 minutes before baking and it was much better. Thanks!
Maybe I missed it, but what size is the pan to bake in?
Thanks
Hi Cheryl, use large baking sheet and keep the cookies 2 inch apart.
where do you live? I’m at 5000 ft and wondered if these need to be adjusted for high elevation.
Hi Peg, you probably should make some adjustment.
Is it plain flour or self raising in this recipe .
Hi Grace, it’s plain flour
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I need to try these with gluten free flour. I hope they come out good.
mine came out flat…:(