Nothing like breaking open a homemade chocolate cookie with a delicious fudge sauce center. These are so easy to make. Great for the holiday season coming up, gift ideas, and even just a tempting snack. Hope you enjoy.
Chocolate Cookies with Fudge Center
Ingredients
- 1 cup crisco vegetable shortening
- 1 cup white granulated sugar + extra sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 TBS water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups flour
- 1 jar hot fudge sauce
Instructions
- Using an electric hand mixer, cream together shortening and both sugars.
- Add eggs, vanilla, water, salt, baking soda & cocoa powder. Mix well using hand mixer.
- Add flour one cup at a time and mix on med low until combined.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Using a 1 1/2 inch cookie scoop, place one scoop into the palm of your hand. Form into a ball and then flatten into a disk shape.
- Place 1/2 teaspoon of fudge (I refrigerated fudge to make it more solid to use) into center of disk. Form dough disk around fudge and roll into a ball.
- Place dough ball into a shallow bowl of sugar (1/2 cup) and roll to cover.
- Place balls onto prepared sheet pan about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes until cookies are set on the top and some cracks show up on top of cookie.
- Let cool on baking sheet for 1 minute and then move cookies to cooling rack. Enjoy.