These triple chocolate cookies are a rich chocolate cookie with a white chocolate center and milk chocolate chunks. They are a copycat of the famous chocolate cookie from the Van Stapele bakery in Amsterdam, the perfect chocolate lovers cookie!
After a recent trip to Amsterdam where I waited in quite a long line to try the chocolate cookie from Van Stapele Bakery, I knew I needed to recreate this. The cookie has a rich chocolate flavor and a melty white chocolate center. While the bakery itself used a round white chocolate truffle, I found a chunk of white chocolate bar to work great too. And of course I added a bit of salt, cause that's what I do!
For more chocolate cookie recipes you should try my small batch chocolate cookies, my chocolate rolo cookies or chocolate sprinkle cookies.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Van Stapele Copycat: Always fun when you can remake something from home and avoid the hour long line and cost of a bakery.
- White Chocolate Center: The best surprise when you bite into this cookie and have the melty white chocolate center.
- No Chilling Reqired: These cookies can be made in less than 30 minutes.
Ingredient Notes
Full ingredient measurements and instructions can be found in the recipe card below.
- Butter: I always use salted butter in my recipes, but unsalted works fine too.
- Sugar: You will use both brown and granulated sugar in these cookies.
- Cocoa Powder: I love and suggest using dark cocoa powder in these cookies for a rich taste, but regular unsweetened cocoa powder works great too.
- Flour: Using a scale is best to measure ingredients, but if you don't have one lightly spoon flour into a measuring cup.
- White Chocolate: I tested these with a few different white chocolate bars and the Lindt melted the smoothest.
- Flaked Salt: When I tried this cookie for myself in Amsterdam the first thing I said to my husband was, "it's just missing the flaked salt". So while that makes these just a little different, that is always a favorite part for me!
Step by Step Instructions
- Step 1: In a large mixing bowl fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy. About 3-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and mix together.
- Step 2: In a medium bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder. This will help so there are no clumps of cocoa powder.
- Step 3: Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until combined.
- Step 4: Fold in the milk chocolate chunks and the ¼ cup of white chocolate chunks.
- Step 5: Scoop dough using a 3 tablespoon cookie scoop. Push a small rectangle of a white chocolate bar into the middle of the cookie dough ball and roll into a ball again. Place 6 cookie balls per cookie sheet.
- Step 6: Bake for 10-12 minutes. Top with flaked salt and allow to cool.
Expert Baking Tips
- Make sure your butter isn't too soft or these cookies will spread too thin.
- These cookies are slightly different than the original Van Stapele cookies because they used a round white chocolate truffle in the middle and they don't add salt to theirs.
- I bought a 4 ounce Lindt white chocolate bar and chopped some of it (¼ cup) very small to mix into the dough, and then used one rectangle piece for the middle of each cookie.
- The espresso powder is to add a richness to the chocolate, you don't taste it in the cookie. But feel free to omit it if you don't have it.
- I have given both cups and grams as measurements. Grams will be more precise, especially when measuring flour. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, no problem! Just lightly spoon flour into your measuring cup to insure its not packed in there. Light and fluffy is the key.
FAQ
I love a rich, dark chocolate cocoa powder for this recipe. I generally use Ghirardelli Dutch process cocoa powder or Hershey's extra dark cocoa powder.
Yes, you could just chop all your chocolate and add it to the dough without adding the extra rectangle of chocolate into the center. Nothing needs to change for baking the cookies.
If your cookies spread to thin it's usually because your butter was too soft, and/or you didn't add quite enough flour.
Storing & Freezing
Triple chocolate cookies will remain fresh if stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 2-3 days. You can also prep the cookie dough in advance and store it in the fridge for about a week.
You can freeze your cookies in an airtight container for 2-3 months with them remaining fresh. You can also freeze the cookie dough balls if you would like to bake them one at a time, or as needed.
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Triple Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup (113.5 g) salted butter
- ½ cup (110 g) brown sugar
- ¼ cups (50 g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temp
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) baking soda
- ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) salt
- 1 teaspoon espresso powder can be skipped
- ⅓ cup (28.67 g) dark cocoa powder dutch processed is my favorite
- 1 cup (140 g) all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup (33 g) white chocolate bar chopped small
- ½ cup (87.5 g) milk chocolate bar chopped small
- 12 pieces white chocolate bar I used a lindt bar and used one rectangle per cookie (4 grams weight for each cookie)
- flaked salt for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy. About 3-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and mix together.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until combined.
- Fold in the milk chocolate chunks and the ¼ cup of white chocolate chunks.
- Scoop dough using a 3 tablespoon cookie scoop. Push a small rectangle of a white chocolate bar into the middle of the cookie dough ball and roll into a ball again. Place 6 cookie balls per cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Top with flaked salt and allow to cool.
Sandy
Amazing cookies! So good with all the variety of chocolate!
Bailey
Absolutely delish!!
Shauna Phillips
These were great! Next time I want to try drizzling some white chocolate on top.
Erin P
I made this recipe today with my kids, and we love it! I used chocolate from Aldi and the Aldi cocoa powder, so probably not as good as yours, but still delicious!
Abigail
Love these cookies, great texture and delicious deep chocolate flavour!
Jennifer
HOLY MOLEY!!! OMG!! These cookies were absolutely CRAZY AMAZING!!! It may sound overly dramatic, but these were soooo delicious. Texture was completely on point and flavor was fantastic! This will definitely be in my permanent recipe book!
Lynzee
What kind of magic did you create. Holy moly. We love these!
Erin M
These are so delicious!! Love the combination of chocolates! I used dark cocoa powder and they turned out great!
Janee
Wow! These are so delicious! They are perfect for the chocolate lovers!! So good!!
Brooklyn
These were delish! Perfect chocolate flavor and fudgie-ness. Especially right out of the oven warm. New favorite chocolate cookie!
Chris Miller
Delicious!!! Quick amazingly good chocolate cookie. I’m not usually a fan of chocolate cookies; only made these because our Bake club theme is chocolate. Will definitely be making them this Christmas for my chocolate loving son-in-law. They are wonderful!!! Another great recipe from Thesaltedsweets!
Chris Miller
Delicious surprisingly quick to make chocolate cookie. Will definitely be saving this recipe to make these again for Christmas for my chocolate loving son-in-law.
Maggie Sullens
One of the best cookies ever! I did freeze them before baking which helped them not spread out too much, but the all the chocolate yumminess was absolutely delicious! Will be making again -probably just going to start keeping a stash of frozen dough in my freezer.
Ashley Poynor
These cookies turned out so great!
Lonna
YUM! The espresso powder put these over the top!
Heidi M
Such a good cookie! The chocolate surprise in the middle is the BEST!
Debbie Wronka
Loved them!! Boys devoured them up tonight watching hockey!
Hannah Stockdill
They literally turned out perfect and were delicious as always!
Elisa M.
Anything with the words “triple chocolate” Is right up my alley! This cookie is muy delicioso! Not To chocolatey but just the right amount. Yum!
Stephanie Wright
Great cookies! Didn't last a day in our house!
jennifer
Absolutely INCREDIBLE! These cookies were some of the BEST I have ever had. The flavor was delicious and complex - THANK YOU!
Heidi Murphy
Really enjoyed the addition of espresso power!
Rachelle
These cookies are decadent! Don’t skip the salt or the espresso powder — they bring this cookie together for a salty, sweet treat!
Adrienne
These cookies are a chocolate dream! I especially love the surprise of white chocolate in the center!
Katie B
These were outstanding! We skipped the espresso powder. I was worried they would be overpowering with chocolate flavor but the addition of the white chocolate gave it the perfect balance. Super moist and delicious 😋 The white chocolate center was a fun addition.
Andrea
These were such a fun cookie to eat. We loved the white chocolate surprise in the middle. Using the dark cocoa powder really elevated the flavor of the chocolate cookie base.
Amanda
What an absolutely delicious cookie! My husband made them for food day at his work and it was the only tray completely empty at the end of the day. We'll definitely be making again!
Joan
Love the rich chocolate cookie with the mixture of chocolate inside. Reminds me of a fudgy brownie. So good!
Rachel
Loved the flavors of all 3 chocolates. Texture was great.
Elisa Tod
Delicious! Having the chocolate piece in the middle is a little extra and I might not do it all the time, but love all the chocolate flavours. And espresso is the chefs kiss!
Giada
These triple chocolate cookies with milk and white chocolate chunks are the perfect balance of rich, chocolaty goodness.