Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
Oct 26, 2025 01:44 AM
Old fashioned Texas Sheet Cake Cookies are chocolate cake in cookie form. Based on the Southern classic Texas Sheet Cake, these cookies are soft and full of rich chocolate flavor.
The chocolate cake cookies aren’t overly sweet themselves, but they are topped with a rich chocolate ganache. Toast the pecans on a baking sheet for a few minutes before the cookies go in to bring out the nutty flavor.
Sheet cakes are popular because they feed a crowed and come in a variety of flavors like key lime sheet cake and apple butter sheet cake.
But I’m more of a cookie girl, so anytime I have the chance, I’m making sheet pan cookies, boxed cake mix cookies or snickerdoodles. If I have the chance to turn a classic dessert into cookies, I do!
This Texas sheet cake cookies recipe reminds me of the “cookies” in whoopie pies. They are like a thin chocolate cake, but you can slightly underbake the cookies by a minute or two to give them more of a gooey center. The cookies may slightly sink in the middle right when they come out of the oven but once you add the toppings, it will all even out.
Ingredients:
For the Cookies
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
For the Ganache Topping
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- 1/4 chopped pecans toasted, or walnuts
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
10 minutes
Total Time:
35 minutes
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