Giant Chocolate Crinkle cookies

Monday, December 7, 2009

Posted by Kirbie / 1 comment » / Cookies

Lately I've seen a lot of recipes for crinkle cookies. With the light dusting of powdered sugar these cookies look like a great winter treat. I finally settled on this recipe from Brownies for dinner. Her recipe only needed cocoa powder whereas a lot of the recipes call for melting chocolate as well. Since I didn't have a lot of time, I wanted the simplest recipe possible.

I made my cookies too big. I didn't realize how much the batter would spread! So instead of tiny bite-sized crinkle cookies, mine were enormous. They still tasted very good though. Chewy and slightly chocolatey.

Recipe adapted from (Brownies for dinner)

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
4 tablespoons oil
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
powdered sugar for rolling

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Combine all of the ingredients other than powdered sugar in a mixer bowl. Mix well. (there were no instructions given for the order of mixing. I followed what I normally do mixing butter with sugar, and then adding eggs. I combined flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder in separate bowl and then mixed it with the butter sugar eggs.)
Chill dough in the fridge for about an hour for easier handling.
Using a tablespoon, create a dough ball and drop it into the powdered sugar. Roll to coat. (if you want giant cookies, make your balls about 1 inch or about the size of a tablespoon. if you want smaller cookies, use a teaspoon. the dough spreads a lot)
Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 1-2 minutes before moving to a rack to cool completely.
Store in airtight container