Holiday Dark Chocolate Bourbon Cookies
🍪 Rich, chewy, and full of chocolate flavor — a next-level holiday cookie with a warm bourbon finish. Perfect for gifting, parties, or late-night cravings.
🧂 Ingredients
Dry Mix
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla powder
- 1/2 tsp cocoa powder (sifted)
Wet Mix
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp bourbon
- 2 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted & cooled
Add-Ins
- 1/2 cup chocolate morsels (semi-sweet or dark)
- 1/2 cup crushed pecans
👩🏽🍳 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet.
- Whisk all Dry Mix ingredients together.
- Cream butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar until smooth and fluffy.
- Beat in vanilla and bourbon. Mix until creamy.
- Fold in melted, cooled unsweetened chocolate.
- Add dry mix in two additions; mix just until combined (don’t overmix).
- Stir in chocolate morsels and crushed pecans.
- Cover and chill dough 30 minutes (up to overnight for deeper flavor).
- Scoop dough, space on tray; bake 10–12 minutes until edges set and centers look slightly soft.
- Cool 5–10 minutes on tray; move to rack to finish setting.
🎬 Timestamps
- 0:00 taste test intro
- 0:06 welcome & intro
- 0:12 recipe announcement
- 0:18 crushing pecans
- 0:31 mixing dry ingredients
- 1:08 creaming butter and sugars
- 1:46 adding bourbon
- 2:03 melting chocolate
- 2:33 adding melted chocolate to mix
- 2:47 combining flour
- 3:11 folding in chocolate chips
- 3:31 adding chopped nuts
- 3:57 baking at 350°F for 10 minutes
- 4:28 finished cookies reveal
- 4:37 taste test reaction
- 5:01 outro / subscribe
🖨️ Printable Recipe Card
Dark Chocolate Bourbon Cookies
Rich, fudgy dark chocolate with a touch of bourbon — soft centers, perfect edges.
Ingredients: See sections above.
Directions: Follow steps 1–10.
Time: ~1 hr 5 mins (incl. chill) • Yield: ~12 cookies
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