Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are the most fudgiest, irresistible, brownie textured cookies that you will ever make. It has to be one of the best Christmas cookies that honestly can easily be enjoyed all year round.

These rich, soft yet crunchy cookies are simple to prepare and will make your kitchen smell absolutely amazing. Your neighbours will certainly be wanting to knock on the front door, asking for a share.

Ingredients for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Even though the ingredients in this recipe is nothing ground breaking (you probably have all of these ingredients in your kitchen), they create such a delicious little treat. Here’s what you will need:

• Baking Cocoa Powder
• White Sugar
• Vegetable Oil
• Eggs
• Vanilla Essence
• Plain White Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Icing or Confectioners Sugar

Common Questions

1. Why don’t you cool the dough before placing it into the oven?
   • I have found that it makes very little difference. Some people have found that the dough is rather sticky or spreads out too far when baking. If you find this is the case, just pop the dough into the fridge for 2-3 hours and then start rolling it into balls.
2. Am I able to make the dough ahead and freeze it?
   • You certainly can! You can freeze the dough as a whole or after rolling it into balls (without the icing sugar), place into a large freezer bag (preferably with a zip). Freeze the dough up to 3 months. When it’s time to bake the cookies, remove them from the freezer and thaw on the counter for at least 30 minutes. Roll in icing sugar and continue to bake in the oven.
3. The icing sugar seems to just melt off the cookies. What can I do?
   • If this is occurring, you can roll the cookie dough balls into a small amount of granulated sugar and then the icing sugar. This will help it stick to the dough. Do not use water or anymore liquid, this will make the icing sugar melt even more and probably turn into a brown/ yellow mush on the cookies.
     

Make sure you sneakily try one of these cookies when they come straight out of the oven, they are absolute fudgy goodness that just melts into your mouth. If you give this recipe a try, I would love to hear about your creation in the comments below. Happy Cooking!

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Recipe by jena@jenas.kitchen

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Course: Baking, Dessert, Recipes

Servings

Adjust servings

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12

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Calorieskcal

Total time

25

minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup 1/2 Baking Cocoa Powder

• 1 cup 1 White Sugar

• 1/4 cup 1/4 Vegetable Oil

• 2 2 large Eggs

• 2 tsps 2 Vanilla Essence

• 1 cup 1 Plain White Flour

• 1 tsp 1 Baking Powder

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 Salt

• 1/4 cup 1/4 Icing Sugar or Confectioner’s Sugar

Directions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the cocoa powder, white sugar and oil. Beat in eggs one at a time, until fully incorporated. Add in the vanilla essence.
• Add in the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix until a dough is formed (try not to over beat).
• Place icing (confectioners) sugar onto a small plate.
• Using your hands, roll 1 tablespoon of dough into balls for smaller cookies, or 2 tablespoons for larger cookies.
• Place onto plate with the icing (confectioners) sugar and generously coat each ball of dough. Place onto prepared baking trays. Repeat until all dough has been used.
• Pop into the oven and bake for 12 minutes (for smaller cookies) or 15 minutes (for larger cookies).
• Allow to cool on the baking trays for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely. The cookies will come out soft from the oven but will harden up as they cool.

Notes

• You can double this recipe to make a larger batch, just keep the cooking time the same.
• Some recipes call for such doughs to be placed in the fridge for up to 4 hours. I have used both methods and find that it doesn’t create a huge difference.