Chocolate Crinkles
Category	Cookie recipes
Servings	36-48
Time	Prep: 45 minutes. Baking: 10 to 12 minutes. Several hours to chill the dough.
Difficulty

Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes

These chocolate crinkles are easy to make, but do require chilling the dough for several hours before forming into cookies and baking. They have a strong chocolate taste and a dramatic black and white appearance. One recipe makes 3 to 4 dozen cookies.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil (120 ml)
• 4 sq. unsweetened chocolate (4 oz.) (115 g), melted
• 2 cups granulated sugar (480 ml)
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract (10 ml)
• 2 cups all purpose flour (480 ml)
• 2 tsp. baking powder (10 ml)
• 1/2 tsp. salt (2.5 ml)
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar (240 ml)

Procedure

1. Mix oil, chocolate, and granulated sugar.
2. Blend in one egg at a time until well mixed.
3. Add vanilla.
4. Stir flour, baking powder, and salt into chocolate mixture.
5. Chill several hours or overnight.
6. Heat oven to 350° F (175C).
7. Drop teaspoonfuls of dough into confectioners' sugar.
8. Roll in sugar; shape into balls.
9. Place about 2" (5 cm) apart on greased baking sheet.
10. Bake 10 to 12 minutes.

• 
  Melting chocolate in double boiler
• 
  Step 1 before mixing
• 
  Step 1 after mixing
• 
  Step 2 during blending eggs
• 
  Step 3 before mixing
• 
  Step 3 after mixing
• 
  Step 4 before mixing
• 
  Step 4 after mixing
• 
  Prepped for forming cookies
• 
  Step 8 before rolling in confectioners' sugar
• 
  Step 9
• 
  Step 10 when placed in oven
• 
  Step 10 after baking 10 to 12 minutes