Chocolate Crinkle Cookies - The Anthony Kitchen (2024)

With a fudgy, melty interior loaded with chocolate chips, Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are the perfect holiday cookie for any and all chocolate lovers! If you're looking to bake up a stellar batch of beautiful Crinkle Cookies to share this holiday season, this is the recipe for you.

In addition to a foolproof, no-chill Crinkle Cookie recipe, we'll also uncover the secret to perfect, chewy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, plus freezing tips for both the cookie dough and the final product!

Need more cookie inspiration for the chocolate lovers in your life? Add soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, chocolate-dipped Coconut Macaroons, and Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies (with the perfect cookie-to-kiss ratio) to the menu!

HOW TO MAKE CRINKLE COOKIES FROM SCRATCH

Crinkle Cookies made with chocolate chips and coated in powdered sugar are a soft and chewy, homemade cookie perfect for the holidays. They're easy to make from scratch, and these, in particular, have been a fan-favorite from my kitchen for almost a solid decade now.

1. Prep - Don't forget to preheat the oven to 325°, and have ready a cookie sheet lined with either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. This ensures your cookies come off the baking sheet with no problem at all!

2. Mix the Dry Ingredients - Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and sea salt. Then, set aside and start on your wet ingredients!

3. Cream the Eggs and Sugar - Add the sugar and eggs to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, and mix on medium-high speed for 3-4 minutes, until pale yellow and noticeably thicker. If you do not have a stand mixer, you can use a large bowl and a handheld mixer. Then, add in the vanilla, followed by streaming in the melted butter.

4. Add the Dry Ingredients to the Wet Ingredients - Gradually add in the dry ingredients, followed by the chocolate chips.

5. Roll in Powdered Sugar - Scoop out a heaping tablespoon of dough, roll into a ball with damp hands, and press gently on the cookie sheet to flatten slightly. Then, roll the cookie dough in the powdered sugar and transfer back to the baking sheet.

6. Bake - Bake for 12-14 minutes, serve and enjoy!

WHAT MAKES A COOKIE CHEWY?

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are known for their chewy interior, but what is it that gives them that signature chewy texture? It's mostly thanks to the eggs.If you are an experienced baker, you might havenoticed this recipe calls for 3 eggs, where 2 is typically standard for a drop cookie.

The extra egg, inaddition, to properly creaming the eggs and sugar, is what makes these Chocolate Crinkle Cookies perfectly chewy, gives them their beautifulheight, and enables a seriously stunning "crinkle" to spread across the top.

You might find yourself tempted to move on to the next stage of the recipe before your eggs and sugar have been properly cream, but I highly encourage you to stay the course. It's only going to take a few minutes, and the result will be a perfectly baked, chewy Chocolate Crinkle Cookie.

HOW TO KNOW WHEN EGGS AND SUGAR ARE "CREAMED"

To cream eggs and sugar, mix together on medium-high to high speed until light and fluffy. If you’re wondering if you’ve reached the “light and fluffy” stage, you probably haven’t yet. The mixture will be pale yellow and almost doubled in volume when properly creamed, and it will likely take you around 3 minutes to get there.

Note, if your Chocolate Crinkles fall flat, not creaming the eggs and sugar is probably the culprit. So taking the time to complete this step properly, really will pay off in the end.

NO-CHILL CHOCOLATE CRINKLE COOKIES

Many Chocolate Crinkle Cookie recipes call for chilling the dough before you can scoop and roll it into balls. Luckily, this is not one of those recipes. This recipe has been simplified to exclude both having to melt down chocolate and chilling the dough, making it an over-the-top, easy Crinkle Cookies recipe!So you can now scoop your cookie dough right away and enjoy a batch of warm, gooey cookies without all that pesky waiting.

However, because of the uptick in the egg count, this cookie dough is still slightly sticky, and there's just no getting around it. Dusting your hands with powdered sugar will keep rolling the dough into balls a smooth and streamlined process. If you have a cookie scoop, while not necessary, it would also come in handy here.

HOW TO STORE AND FREEZE CHOCOLATE CRINKLE COOKIES

If you want to give yourself a serious head start (like a 2-month head start) you can absolutely do that with these cookies. You can freeze Chocolate Crinkle cookie dough balls, and pull off a batch of freshly baked chocolate cookies any day of the week, completely on a whim!

COOKIE DOUGH (FREEZING INSTRUCTIONS)

1. To freeze Chocolate Crinkle cookie dough, roll in powdered sugar first. Rolling the cookie dough in powdered sugar at this point (rather than directly before baking) helps to keep the cookie dough from sticking -- cause remember -- it is a sticky dough after all.
2. Once coated in powdered sugar, transfer to a snug, airtight, freezer-safe container, separate each layer of cookie dough with sheets of wax paper, and seal.
3. Bake within 2 months for best results.

STORING BAKED COOKIES

You can store your baked cookies in an airtight container at room temperature, and they will stay fresh for up to 3 days. However, to preserve them longer, you can also freeze Crinkle Cookies even after baking.

BAKED COOKIES (FREEZING INSTRUCTIONS)

Once your cookies have baked and cooled, simply place them in a freezer-safe zip-top bag, taking care to press out any excess air for up to 2 months. You could also freeze them in a freezer-safe, airtight storage container, just be sure the container fits the cookies snugly, and there is not a ton of room for air to circulate around them.

5 MORE COOKIE RECIPES YOU'LL LOVE

• Chocolate Peppermint Cookies with a cascade of white Peppermint Frosting are rich, chewy, and delightfully festive!
• Chocolate Drop Cookies are full of chocolate, soft, gooey, and easy to make! If you're looking for a chocolate cookie with no chill-time required, this one is perfect!
• Thumbprint Hershey Kiss Cookies are soft and chewy, with the perfect peanut butter cookie-to-kiss ratio!
• Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are a souped-up, seriously amazing take on a classic! Instant vanilla pudding keeps these cookies insanely moist, and they are a guaranteed crowd pleaser!
• Easy Coconut Macaroons are the perfect gluten-free cookie for entertaining! They're easy to make and freeze beautifully!
• S'mores Cookies are wonderful for the holidays, with a cookie base made toemulate the flavors of a graham cracker, topped with a gooey marshmallow and a chocolate kiss!