If you’ve ever read one of my Friday Favorites posts then you know I have an affinity for outrageous desserts.
Eight layer chocolate cake dripping with caramel, chewy chips ahoy and fruity pebbles? Chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed brownies wrapped in pancakes then drizzled with hot fudge? Red velvet cake balls rolled in hot rocks and marshmallows then grilled over an open flame?
I’ll take one of each.
While I enjoy drooling over these extreme edibles, I rarely make them at home. Mostly because they’d never stand a chance at a long and happy life with my raging sweet tooth, but also because I’m lazy. Of course I adore cooking but when a recipe takes longer than 30 minutes of active cooking time I tend to get a little fidgety.
Maybe that’s why my favorite Christmas cookie in the world happens to be one of the easiest. No waiting for butter to soften, no labor intensive decorating, no icing…ok, ok – the dough has to chill for a bit before being baked, but Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are totally worth it!
Each bite of this deeply chocolaty cookie treat is heavenly. The outside is sweet and slightly crisp, while the inside is rich and fudgy. They just scream ‘Christmas’ to me. Maybe it’s because they look like a chocolate snowballs!
Like I said, these cookies are super easy to make too. Cream together cocoa, vegetable oil, and sugar, then add eggs and vanilla.
Next mix in gluten-free measure for measure flour, or all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt.
Getting closer!
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!
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Description
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are such a treat around the holidays, or anytime! This sweet and chocolate cookie recipe totally hits the spot.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup gluten-free measure for measure, or all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Directions
- In the bowl of a mixer (or in a medium-sized bowl) beat together cocoa, sugar, vanilla and vegetable oil. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until mixture is smooth. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Mix into wet ingredients in 3 batches, mixing until just combined in between each batch. Cover the dough and chill for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Scoop out 1 Tablespoon dough, roll it into a ball between your palms and roll in powdered sugar. Place on a non-stick sprayed, or parchment paper lined, baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
Notes
From AllRecipes.com
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.
The insides of these cookies are dense like fudge, which I just can’t get enough of. Fa-la-la-la-lahhh-la-la-la-getinmymouth!
Gloria 12.13.2011
Raspberry thumbprints. They are so good.
Kristin 12.13.2011
MMmm, those little delicious!! I think I might make these for a party we’re having on Friday! My favorite cookie is those peanut butter kind with the reese’s in the middle. Lately though, I’ve been lazy and making a really easy peanut butter cookie that is so good and only has 4 ingredients! 1 cup peanut butter, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, and 1 egg. Bake 10 minutes at 375!
Lisa @ Life in Green 12.13.2011
Delicious! I hosted a cookie swap this past weekend and one of my friend’s brought these. Very good.
My all-time favorite is Betty Crocker’s Creme Wafers… just wouldn’t be Christmas without them.
P.S. I totally fell off the 20 day workout…I banged up my fourth toe last week and have been slow going. Bummer.
dana @ my little celebration 12.13.2011
My favorite holiday cookies are plain ol sugar cookies with buttercream frosting and sprinkles! So festive and oh so delicious. I can eat like 20 in one sitting, and I have!!
Ji 12.13.2011
These look delicious! I usually suck at baking so I avoid it, but maybe I’ll give these a go since I just recently had some luck with some yummy chewy chocolate chip cookies (after trying again after one failed attempt, that is): http://midwestlagirl.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/i-baked-and-it-didnt-suck/
j/k 12.13.2011
Chocolate crinkles are my specialty. My mom is a great baker, but she requests that I make them instead. Mostly b/c she has a tendency to over bake them.
A tip if you want to try to decorate sugar cookies. Bake the cookies one day, and then decorate them a different day. You can even make them way in advance and freeze the unfrosted cookies. That helps break it up a little bit. And the cleanup is more controlled with two separate, but smaller messes :)
Another one of my faves is molasses…and spritz.
Chris 12.13.2011
Hmmmm, so many choices…I do LOVE the peanut butter balls my sister makes & the Oreo truffles from my sister-in-law (common denominator of CHOCOLATE!). However, I recently tried a new recipe for Tiramisu Drops. So cute & nummy. Just a little work, but worth it :-)
JennyV 12.13.2011
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.
kathleen @ the daily crumb 12.13.2011
the cookies are beautiful! i have always wondered how you get the crinkle look. so fun!
Panera John 12.13.2011
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)
Courtney 12.13.2011
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!
Amy 12.13.2011
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!
Jamie Phipps 12.13.2011
I made a similar variation of these!
http://theheartyherbivore.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/chocolate-cookies-more-like-brownies/
shandy (@webgals) 12.13.2011
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.
Jenn 12.13.2011
Due mint instead and add chips.
(I bet they taste like the cookies from Panera)
YUM!!
Leslie Means @ Her View From Home 12.13.2011
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?!
Iowa Girl Eats 12.13.2011
Beautiful!!
Sarah 12.13.2011
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!
Katelyn @ Chef Katelyn 12.13.2011
Chocolate crinkles make me swoooooonnnn!
Whit 12.13.2011
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.
Kelcie 12.15.2011
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.
Blog is the New Black 12.13.2011
These are a fav of mine, too!! They look great!