Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies:These are gorgeous looking cookies, I fell in love with chocolate crinkle cookies by the look of it and right away decided to bake some. Chocolate crinkle cookies are best addition as a holiday cookie and here I am baking these in February 😉.

Chocolate crinkle cookies are basically made by the cookie dough ball coated with icing sugar and then baked hence giving them a crinkle look. It has a quite soft and moist cake like texture inside and a crisp texture outside.

Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Preparation Time:10 min
Baking time:10-15 min
Yields: 10-12 large cookies

Ingredients needed: 

All Purpose Flour  – 1 cup
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder- 1/2 cup
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 2/3 cup
Unsalted Soft Butter – 1/4 cup

Eggs – 2

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Confectioners Sugar / Icing Sugar – 1/2 cup 

Method:

Take the dry ingredients - flour, salt baking powder and cocoa in a bowl and sieve or mix together and set aside.

Cream together butter and granulated sugar in a bowl til light and fluffy using a  handmixer.
Add in egg and again beat with the handmixer.
Add in vanilla essence and mix well.
Add in the flour mix and mix well using a spatula to form a lumpy mix.
Cover well with a cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hrs.
Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Make even sized balls from the dough using a tablespoon or ice cream scoops and cover generously with icing sugar.
Bake for 10-15 minutes till cookies are done.
Store in an airtight container after cooling down.

How to check crinkle cookies are done?

The cooking of the crinkle cookies cannot be said by look of it. Cookies can be overdone within minutes.The crinkle cookies are done when the top crack open and when you touch lightly in the center no imprints remain.

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