Classic Comfort Cookies: Crinkles!
Submitted by Gerald Ellaine Abad
With the holiday season, I always find comfort in baking cookies to bring to holiday parties. One of my favorite kinds of cookies to make are crinkles—chocolate cookies that combine brownies and cookies in one with its fudgy centers and crispy powdered sugar outer layer. Its crinkled appearance—hence the name—accentuated by the powdered sugar gives it that cozy comfort-food snack and dessert that I look forward to eating every holiday season. In this article, I’ll be sharing my favorite crinkle recipe from Savor Easy that my loved-ones and myself enjoy!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (60g)
– Hershey’s pure cocoa powder measures 20g per 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup brown sugar (95g)
- 1/2 cup white sugar (95g)
- 1/4 cup oil (50g)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all purpose flour (120g)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (5g)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (3g)
- 1/2 cup icing sugar (60g)
Instructions
- Add cocoa powder, brown sugar, white sugar, and vegetable oil to a bowl and mix until combined.
- Once combined, add both eggs to the same bowl and mix well until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
- Add vanilla extract to the mixture and mix again until well combined.
- Using a sifter, sift together the all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt into the wet mixture.
- Mix the wet and dry ingredients together just until combined. Do not over mix!
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or foil and refrigerate for 4 hours OR freeze for 1 hour.
- Use an ice cream scoop or tablespoon to scoop the batter into equal sizes–about 2 inch wide balls of dough.
- Roll the balls into a circular shape.
- Coat the balls with powdered sugar until all sides are covered.
- Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and gently press down on each cookie.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes at 180oC (360oF). The longer the cookies are in the oven, the less gooey the centers will be!
- Take cookies out of the oven and let cool completely before serving.
- Enjoy!
I hope you enjoy and find comfort in crinkles like I do!
