Chocolate Crinkles

We just discovered Chocolate Crinkles!

Santa Corbin (which is how Corbin now refers to himself when he wants a cookie, because you always leave cookies out when Santa comes) wanted no bake cookies the other day. I wasn't in the mood so I pulled out my good ol' Betty Crocker cookbook to find a chocolate cookie.

These were a big hit over here. They tasted a lot like brownies, which is awesome. I have yet to make a batch of brownies that comes out edible with our diet restrictions around here. So we thought these were really fun. I may even try making them in a 8x8 pan and see how they do as a bar cookie.

Anyway, here is the recipe if you're interested:

2 c. sugar

1/2 c. vegetable oil

2 t. vanilla

4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled

4 eggs

2 c. flour

2 t. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1c. powdered sugar

Mix sugar, oil, vanilla, and chocolate. Then mix in eggs one at a time. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Cover and chill at least 3 hours.

Heat oven to 350º. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls into powdered sugar: roll around to coat. Shape into balls. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake until almost no indentation remains when touched. 10 to 12 min.

My Notes:

***I couldn't let my dough chill because of the egg replacer I use, so I used shortening instead of oil (thinking that would make the dough firmer with out chilling)

***1 square of unsweetended chocolate equals 3T. of unsweetened cocoa powder + 1T. shortening (or oil)

***I also just used my cookie scoop and then rolled the dough in the powder sugar. I didn't worry about making perfect balls.

So there you go. A cookie with Santa Corbin's seal of approval!