This chocolate crinkles recipe is super easy- only 4 ingredients! And it makes the softest, chewiest, and most delicious chocolate cookie you'll ever eat! A perfect holiday treat!
Holiday cookies seem to center around the butter cookie/sugar cookie variety- with some molasses/gingerbread kinds thrown in for good measure. But where is all of the chocolate? I mean- chocolate chip cookies are a little too “every-day” for the holidays, don't you think? (Ha- my kids wish that they had chocolate chip cookies every day!).
Which is why I love to make these Chocolate Crinkles cookies during the holidays!
How to Make Chocolate Crinkles
The dough for these cookies is crazy-sticky… even when chilled. So the best way to handle it is to drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into a pie dish filled with powdered sugar.
Roll the dough around a bit in the sugar using your fingertip…
And then once it's nice and coated in powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a plump round ball.
And be sure not to over bake these cookies- you want them to be set, but to hold onto their chewy goodness!
I've made this same recipe with different types of cake mix- including lemon and red velvet- and they are all equally delicious. But at the holidays, it's the chocolate cookie that I crave!
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Chocolate Crinkles Recipe:
- 2 cups of Cool Whip (thawed in the fridge)
- 1 egg
- 1 box of chocolate cake mix (whichever is your favorite brand!)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- Mix together the Cool Whip, egg, and cake mix using your electric mixer. Note that the dough will be super-sticky!
- Chill the dough for at least one hour.
- Drop rounded spoonfuls of the dough into a pie dish of powdered sugar. Roll the dough around until coated, and then use your hands to form a perfect plump ball.
- Bake on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes at 350°.
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susen @Dabbling Momma says
December 16, 2014 at 9:52 pmI cannot wait to make these totally delicious looking cookies!!!!