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Chocolate Crinkles

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.

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Chocolate Crinkles
Photo: “Chocolate Crinkles” by John V. Pozniak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ingredients

Makes
10
  • ½ cup (120 ml) vegetable oil
  • 4 squares (4 oz / 115 g) unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 2 cups (480 ml) white granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp (10 ml) vanilla extract
  • 2 cups (480 ml) all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder
  • ½ tsp (2.5 ml) salt
  • 1 cup (240 ml) confectioners' sugar

Ingredients for 10 servings (1.2 kg) · the original recipe

Method

  1. 1

    Mix oil, chocolate, and granulated sugar.

  2. 2

    Blend in one egg at a time until well mixed. Add vanilla.

  3. 3

    Stir flour, baking powder, and salt into chocolate mixture.

  4. 4

    Chill several hours or overnight.

  5. 5

    Heat oven to 350°F (175°C).

    Oven
  6. 6

    Drop teaspoonfuls of dough into confectioners' sugar.

  7. 7

    Roll in sugar; shape into balls.

  8. 8

    Place about 2 inches (5 cm) apart on greased baking sheet.

    Oven
  9. 9

    Bake 10 to 12 minutes.

    Oven

Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.

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