Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are chewy and fudgy in the center, with a festive, snowball appearance. They're one of the easiest gluten free cookies you can make, and are a must for the holidays!
“These cookies are amazing!!! One of the best (and easiest) gf cookie around! Thank you for sharing”
When it comes to my children, I have no favorites. When it comes to holiday desserts, however, Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are hard to beat.
Each bite of these chewy, fudgy cookies is heavenly. The outsides are sweet and slightly crisp, while the insides are rich and dense. A roll in powdered sugar before baking makes them appear as flattened snowballs.
Translation: they’re holiday baking perfection!
These cookies are super easy to make too. Beat together unsweetened cocoa powder, vegetable oil, and granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer, or a large glass bowl if using a handheld mixer, then add eggs and vanilla and beat to combine.
Next add gluten-free measure for measure flour, plus baking powder and salt.
Chill the dough for 4 hours then roll 1 Tablespoon worth of dough into a ball, and then roll in powdered sugar. Bake for 8-10 minutes, and voila!
I adore these cookies, and they’re always such a crowd pleaser when I take them to get togethers!
The insides of these cookies are dense like fudge, which I just can’t get enough of. So delicious, so festive — they’re a holiday season must have! Enjoy!
More Gluten Free Cookie Recipes
- Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Bars
- Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Soft and Chewy Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
- Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossoms
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup gluten free baking flour blend WITH binder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Directions
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, or large glass bowl if using a handheld mixer, add the cocoa powder, sugar, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract then mix on medium speed until well combined. Add one egg then mix on low speed until just combined before adding the next egg and mixing on low speed until just combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Add the gluten free flour blend, baking powder, and salt to the bowl then mix on low speed until just combined. Cover the dough then refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees then line a half sheet pan with parchment paper. Pour the powdered sugar into a shallow dish.
- Scoop out 1 Tablespoon dough at a time then roll it into a ball, and roll it in powdered sugar. Place the dough balls onto the prepared sheet pan then bake for 8-10 minutes, rotating the baking pan halfway through. Err on the side of slightly under-baking, vs over-baking. Rap the baking sheet from a few inches above the countertop, then let the cookies cool on the pan for 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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I love candies for Christmas rather than cookies — like homemade peanutbutter balls or chocolate covered cherries. However, if I had to choose a Christmas cookie I’d go w/ Spritz cookies. So cute and somehow you feel justified eating 5 because they’re so small.
the cookies are beautiful! i have always wondered how you get the crinkle look. so fun!
Love it – a favorite of mine as well! (Particularly the one’s Jenn mentioned from Panera – mint and chocolate – always a winning combo!) :-) My all time favorite Christmas Cookie has to be my Mom’s homemade Molasses Cookies (which are rolled out and frosted, not the typically Molasses Cookie that first comes to mind…. more like a gingerbread… but WAY better! They are 4-H State Fair certified Blue Ribbon)
I have baked something very similar to these for years… I take the super easy way out though and have always used a cake mix :) My favorite… lemon!
I love waffle iron cookies. They’re a chocolate cookie you make in – guess what! – the waffle iron! However, they are extremely time consuming, given you can only make four at a time!
Chocolate crinkle cookies are yummy too!
I made a similar variation of these!
http://theheartyherbivore.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/chocolate-cookies-more-like-brownies/
Love these cookies. But my favorite Christmas cookie is the “O-so-Good” Cookies that my family makes every year. Like sugar cookies, but better. WAY better. The texture to these cookies is UH-mayzing. And we only have them at Christmas for some reason.
Due mint instead and add chips.
(I bet they taste like the cookies from Panera)
YUM!!
So check out these cookies!
I PROMISE you won’t mind these! Just don’t do more than…um, 12 or so. That’s about my limit! :) So easy and how cute?!
Beautiful!!
I love love love peanut butter blossoms! Also, I love decorating sugar cookies with my sister. We don’t get that fancy though. My aunt makes those chocolate crinkle cookies every year. They are some of my favorites!
Chocolate crinkles make me swoooooonnnn!
Those look divine.
My favorite Christmas cookie would have to be pfeffernusse. I’ve never made them myself because my mom claims they’re a lot of work and I am not a fan of that. Oh and she always refrigerated the dough for days (sometimes over a week) and um…I can’t wait that long.
My grandmother had a recipe for pfeffernusse her mother brought over from Germany that was so old it was written in pounds… 2 cups is a pound the world around :-) They are a bit tedious to make but not that hard. Cutting up the Citron was the hardest part.
These are a fav of mine, too!! They look great!