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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Marne says
I make this recipe using LEMON cake mix and I call them “Lemon Snowflakes”. I don’t chill the dough because it’s just sticky and I’m not sure chilling would help. I use a cookie scoop for the dough and scrape the edge along the side of the batter bowl, drop them in the powdered sugar, and use tablespoons to roll the dough in the powdered sugar.
Sharon Rowley says
I make those too- and also red velvet versions! So yummy!
susen @Dabbling Momma says
I cannot wait to make these totally delicious looking cookies!!!!