Hello from TINA KASHIAN! I love cookies but I’m not a baker. I’m a cook. This past holiday I was invited to a cookie exchange for a group of mothers. I stressed about this until I found a recipe for chocolate crinkle cookies. With help from my youngest teenage daughter, we prepared the dough and refrigerated it overnight. The dough is very sticky, so you don’t want to skip this step. The next day, we formed the dough into cookie sized balls and then rolled them first in sugar, then confectioners' sugar. The baked cookies came out fudgy and delicious. I was proud to offer them for the cookie exchange!
Ingredients:
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup white granulated sugar
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup confectioners’ sugar
Directions:
In a mixing bowl, mix cocoa powder, granulated sugar, and vegetable oil. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla and mix. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the dry ingredients into the wet mixture until a dough forms. Make sure you do not over beat the dough. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Add confectioners’ sugar to a small bowl. Add granulated sugar to a separate small bowl. Roll 1 tablespoon of dough into a ball. Coat each ball of dough in granulated sugar, then in confectioners’ sugar. Place on the cookie sheet.
Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes. Place on cooling racks. The cookies will come out of the oven soft, but they will harden as they cool.
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Thank you for the yummy sounding recipe. I will be giving this one a try.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite all time cookie is the Ozark Honey Oatmeal Cookie not only for its fabulous taste, but also because it freezes and ships well.
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Hi Kay! My mother-in-law makes delicious oatmeal raisin cookies. I've never tried an Ozark Honey oatmeal cookie. Sounds delicious!
DeleteLove love love the oatmeal cookies!!!
DeleteOur recurring holiday cookies all have nuts in them, but with one relative who dislikes nuts, I always have to make a batch of cookies without them. Fortunately, he's a chocolate nut and your recipe would be perfect. Thanks for sharing it. ~Maya
ReplyDeleteI also have a relative who is allergic to nuts. I love a little bit of chopped walnuts in chocolate chip cookies, but we have to have a batch without the nuts, too. I hope he likes these cookies!
DeleteI'm with you, Tina--not a baker, but a cook! (I find it very tedious to have to actually measure--or worse yet, weigh!--ingredients, lol.) But these look simple, and simply divine!
ReplyDeleteHi Leslie! Hope you had a wonderful holiday. I'd rather add and improvise as I cook then measure precisely, too!
DeleteOh, those look scrumptious! I love almost ANY kind of cookie, but especially ones with nuts or chocolate, though I also love shortbread and things like that. Also on Team Tina & Leslie K.--would rather cook savory food than bake, because baking is usually so precise, but I have gotten much better through the years!
ReplyDeleteHi Lynn! I have one teenager who loves to bake cookies and she helped me. It's always great to have a helper with the measurements
DeleteThanks for the recipe! With the exception of one relative, everyone else loves chocolate. My favorite holiday cookie is my sister-in-law's triple ginger cookie.
ReplyDeleteI also love a good gingerbread cookie, especially during this time. We made a great gingerbread house this year with the grand parents
DeleteChocolate crinkle cookies are terrific! I have a recipe using solid chocolate, rather than powder, and some bourbon!
ReplyDeleteI need to make them soon.
PS And in case anyone is wondering if they can skip the regular sugar before the confectioner's, the answer is NO. They don't crinkle properly without both.
DeleteHi Libby. Wow! I never thought to add bourbon! Thanks for the tip
DeleteI also made chocolate crinkle cookies but used fellow MLK author Leslie Budewitz's recipe instead of my usual recipe. The addition of espresso powder (or instant coffee) really enhances the chocolate flavour.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/2020/12/leslie-budewitz-since-as-christmas.html
Hi Grace. I have a recipe for chocolate frosting with the addition of espresso powder or coffee and it tastes great. You are right and the coffee enhances the chocolate flavor. I didn't add it to the cookies because kids ate them this year.
DeleteCitrus crackle cookies are just as easy and quite tasty too! Looking forward to the next Kebab Kitchen Mystery!
ReplyDeleteI never had citrus crackle cookies. They sound delicious. Thanks for reading, Tracy!
DeleteI'm not at all comfortable baking cookies so a cookie exchange would probably give me an anxiety attack. Good job finding a good recipe like the Chocolate Crinkle Cookies! Our favorite cookies are David's (brand name) Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies. They are my go-to cookie any time I'm asked to bring cookies to an event.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo, your chocolate crinkle cookies look delicious, Tina. Thanks for sharing the recipe, and a very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. xoxo
ReplyDelete~ Cleo