These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are
the prefect holiday cookie! Try making these soft and moist brownie like
cookies for your next cookie exchange or holiday party!
½ cup cocoa powder
2/3 cups granulated sugar
¼ cup canola oil
2 eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla paste or pure
extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup confectioners sugar
Directions
1. Place flour, baking powder
and salt into a bowl. Stir to combine and set aside.
2. Place cocoa powder, granulated
sugar and oil into a medium sized bowl or the bowl of a standing mixer.
Mix to combine.
3. Add eggs one at a time,
mixing until each is fully incorporated. Mix in vanilla.
4. Stir in flour
mixture until just combined. Be careful not to overmix.
5. Cover cookie dough with
plastic wrap and place in freezer to chill for at least 1 hour or 2 hours in the fridge. **Dough can be prepared in
advanced and placed in the fridge overnight.
6. Preheat oven to 350 and
line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
7. Using a small ice cream
scoop or a spoon, scoop out dough.
8. Roll dough into small
balls and coat generously with confections sugar.
9. Place dough balls an inch
apart onto prepared baking sheet.
10.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove cookies from oven and transfer them
onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Variations: Intensify
these Chocolate Crinkle Cookies by simply replacing the vanilla extract with
almond, cherry, rum, mint or the extract of your choice.