Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookies
Our Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookies have all the rich, chocolaty flavor, soft cookie texture, and delicious ganache frosting you love about the original, but they’re even better! Fresh from your kitchen in about an hour (including cooling time), these are easy to make and absolutely divine.
We absolutely love cookies. These handheld bites are easy to make and can be loaded up with all kinds of delicious flavors, perfect for any occasion. They’re perfect for weeknight desserts, afternoon snacks, or parties. They tick all the boxes.
We love making homemade cookies. We have 17 pages of them, if you’re interested! That doesn’t mean we don’t love really good purchased cookies, either. In fact, we have a serious Crumbl obsession.
Being cooks, we like to replicate our favorite treats at home, which is why we have recipes like these copycat Crumbl cheesecake cookies and copycat Crumble Twix cookies in our recipe rotation. Now, we’re adding these copycat Crubmbl chocolate cake cookies to the mix!
These chocolate cake cookies have that classic Crumbl texture and rich chocolate flavor in the dough, as well as their luxurious chocolate ganache frosting. The best part is that they’re fresh from your kitchen. It doesn’t get more delicious than that.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Basic Ingredient: These cookies are made with kitchen staples like flour, butter, sugar, and baking powder. They’re all in any kitchen or grocery store.
- So Easy: Just mix, bake, cool, and frost. That’s all there is to it. It’s super easy.
- Rich Chocolate Flavor: The cookies are made with cocoa powder, and the frosting is made with chocolate chips and cream to create super-rich, chocolaty cookies.
- Versatile: These cookies are easy enough for a weeknight dessert but fancy enough for special occasions of any kind.
- Make-Ahead Friendly: The cookies are freezer-friendly, so you can make extra for later. Then, make the frosting when you’re ready to serve them.
Ingredients
We’ve made this list to help you save time on your next trip to the grocery store. You can find the full amounts needed in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
We recommend using high-quality chocolate chips for this recipe. The ganache frosting is an integral part of the cookie experience. The better the chocolate, the better the frosting!
Variations
- Extra Chocolaty: Use dark or Dutched cocoa powder for an extra-deep chocolate flavor.
- Bolder Flavor: Add a little instant coffee to the cookie dough mix for a bolder, deeper flavor.
- Gluten-Free: Use a high-quality 1:1 gluten-free flour for cookies that taste exactly the same but can be enjoyed by anyone at a party.
How to Make Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookies
This is a quick overview of the steps needed to make this recipe. You can find the full instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Sift the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Then, add the egg and beat again.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a spatula until just combined. Using an ice cream scoop, place dough mounds onto a prepared cookie sheet
- Bake at 375°F for 9 to 11 minutes. Then, set aside to cool on a wire rack. Make the frosting, and then frost the cooled cookies.
Expert Tips
- It’s important to sift the dry ingredients before making the dough for the best cookie texture.
- Bring your egg and butter to room temperature before making the dough. This ensures more complete mixing and a better texture.
- Mix your dough until just combined. Everything should be moistened. That’s when you stop. Overmixing activates the gluten in the flour, resulting in tough cookies.
- Fully cool your cookies before frosting them, or the frosting will thin on contact and slide off the cookies.
- Blend your very cold ganache on high speed. Being as cold as possible ensures a nice whipped texture and prevents the frosting from warming up too much from the friction of the blender blades.
Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookies FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
These cookies are soft and cakey, which makes sense. They’re cake cookies, after all!
The key to good ganache is heat and stirring. Your cream should be very hot, but never boiling, as boiling will cause it to curdle. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate and stir continuously until the mixture is not only melted and mixed, but it has a glossy, shiny appearance.
Use a piping bag with our preferred tip for a fancy look. If you don’t have a piping bag, simply cut the corner off of a Ziploc baggie.
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📖Recipe
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Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookies
Equipment
- medium bowl
- large mixing bowl
- Electric mixer
- Cookie scoop
- Cookie sheets
- parchment paper
- Saucepan
- Whisk
- Piping bag
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- ½ cup butter creamed not melted
- ⅓ cup white granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
Ganache frosting;
- ½ cup cream
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F.
- In a bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Take another bowl and beat the sugar and butter on medium speed.
- Add 1 egg and keep whisking.
- Add the dry ingredients and stir with spatula, make the cookie dough.
- Scoop the dough with an ice-cream scoop onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet ( I use silpat mat instead.)
- Bake for 9-11 minutes.
- Let them cool down.
- Prepare the frosting; In a small pan heat the heavy cream, be careful not to boil. Take it from the heat and add chocolate chips.
- Whisk until combined. Add the butter, keep whisking. Let it rest in fridge. When it’s cold, using a blender mix on high speed.
- Pipe the chocolate frosting on the cooled down cookies and enjoy!
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
