These Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are a perfect holiday treat. They are so tempting and awesome, and taste like a mix of brownies and cookies combined. All chocolate lovers are sure to love them.
Baking them is a joy, especially rolling the dough in powdered sugar and watching those crinkles form as they bake. If you've made these treats, you know the thrill of seeing them transform into those soft, cracked beauties ready to melt in your mouth!
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Why do you love these cookies?
- They are easy to make if you follow all the instructions, especially refrigerating the dough before making the cookies, like in the chocolate chip cookies Hilton Style.
- It tastes great, and it is both crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, a tasty combination of a brownie, like the delicious walnut brownies or fudgy brownies recipe easy, and a cookie, like the bakery-style delicious cookie.
- Makes great gifts and sweet treats for your friends and loved ones, like the plum cake indian.
- It will surely be a hit with your guests for get-togethers and parties.
Ingredients needed
- For All-purpose flour, I used Arthur's unbleached flour.
- Cocoa powder Ghirardelli 100% cocoa Dutch-processed and unsweetened to get the rich color and chocolate flavor, used in Chocolate Ganache cake.) You can also use natural processed cocoa flour (used in delicious red velvet cupcakes) if you like.
- Avocado oil or any vegetable oil.
- Granulated sugar - I used the unrefined brown one; white granulated sugar can also be used. The brown sugar is great for baking chocolate desserts like the chocolate cake with chocolate cream frosting.
- Eggs used are organic and at room temperature.
- Powdered confectioners' sugar, Baking powder, Vanilla essence, and Salt.
How to make the Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies?
We first start by whisking all the dry contents, namely the all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, take the cocoa powder, eggs, granulated sugar, and vanilla essence and beat them together. I started mixing with a spatula but switched to a hand mixer to ensure the sugar was fully incorporated.
Next, add the flour and mix with a spatula so they all come together. The dough will be a bit sticky and thick. Cover the dough with parchment paper and seal it well with two or three layers so it is airtight. Refrigerate it in a closed container if possible.
It is preferable to refrigerate it overnight or for at least three to four hours. I baked mine after four hours. Scoop the dough using an ice cream scoop, roll it in powdered sugar, and bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. You will see the crinkles forming and cracking up the sugar topping. Cool it on a cooking rack and enjoy.
and bake in the oven for 10 minutes at 350 degrees, cool on a cooling rack
and cookies are ready to be enjoyed!
I hope you enjoy making these cookies. Some other cookies that you may like are Oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies, Hilton-style cookies, and Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts.
Useful Tips
- Refrigeration of the dough is important and a key step to making the perfect crinkle cookies.
- Roll in granulated sugar first, followed by powdered sugar,r so the white powdered sugar sticks well.
- Double-coat the powdered sugar if necessary. Once the cookies are lined up to bake, ensure your oven is already preheated and ready to take them in for baking, else refrigerate the baking tray with the cookie ball doughs again until ready.
- Use Dutch-processed cocoa powder for the rich chocolatey flavor.
- Espresso can be optionally used to bring out the chocolatey flavor, although not a must.
These cookies are perfect for the holidays. You may also love some of my other holiday specials, Christmas Fruit Cake, and the Cut Out Sugar cookies easy. If you are looking to celebrate with a chocolate cake, do check the chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, chocolate cake with chocolate cream whipping, and chocolate truffle cake were quite popular
Recipe FAQs
Your cookies might not have formed many crinkles because the dough wasn't chilled long enough. Another possible reason is not double-coating the dough with granulated sugar before rolling it in powdered sugar. Also, make sure your baking powder or baking soda is fresh and hasn't expired.
If the dough feels too sticky, gradually add a little flour until it reaches the right consistency, being careful not to overmix. Make sure to refrigerate the dough long enough, and before rolling, dust your palms with flour to make shaping easier.
Add some water or milk a little by little and mix slowly if the dough gets dry.
Timing is key; make sure to remove the cookies from the oven at the right moment to avoid overbaking.
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Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Equipment
- 1 oven
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- ¼ cup oil avocado
- 2 eggs organic, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar granulated
- 1 cup sugar confectioners to roll cookies
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp espresso
Instructions
- Whisk the dry ingredients all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt.
- Using a spatula or a hand mixer and mix the eggs and sugar well along with cocoa powder, vanilla essence, espresso(if using) and oil.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet in two additions and mix until well combined.
- Cover it with cling wrap and refrigerate for about four hours or overnight.
- When ready to bake, Pre-heat oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit.
- Keep your baking tray lined with parchment paper and powdered sugar to roll in ready.
- Scoop a small lemon-sized ball of the dough and roll into a neat ball .
- Roll this in powdered or confectioner's sugar.
- Line them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 10 minutes until you see the crinkles forming but do not over bake.
- Transfer to a cooling rack and cool it.
- Cookies are ready to be enjoyed.
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Notes
- Refrigeration of the dough is important and a key step to making the perfect crinkle cookies.
- Roll in granulated sugar first followed by powdered sugar so the white powdered sugar sticks well.
- Double-coat the powdered sugar if necessary. Once the cookies are lined up to bake ensure your oven is already pre-heated and ready to take them in for baking else refrigerate the baking tray with the cookie ball doughs again until ready.
- Use Dutch-processed cocoa powder for the rich chocolatey flavor.
- Espresso can be optionally used to bring out the chocolatey flavor although not a must.
These are my new favourite crinkle cookies! They’re so delicious!!
This worked exactly as written, thanks! My family loved them!
There are so many recipes for these cookies out there... and I could never get them to work until I found this one. Thank you so much!
This worked exactly as written, thanks!
Yum! We loved the texture of these cookies, and my son really enjoyed helping make them!
These were the perfect snack to leave for Santa this year. My kids liked them too.