Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These double chocolate crinkle cookies have a deep chocolate flavor and are moist and tender with a gooey interior!
It’s time for the annual great food blogger cookie swap! It’s a very simple concept: bring together hundreds of food bloggers from around the world in celebration of all things scrumptious and in the process raise funds for a great cause. This year, money raised from the cookie swap will be donated to Cookies for Kids Cancer, a national non-profit organization committed to funding new therapies used in the fight against pediatric cancer, which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.
Our hosts Lindsay and Julie have been organizing the cookie swap for 4 years and each year it attracts more food bloggers. When you sign up to participate, you get matched with three other bloggers who you send a dozen holiday cookies to. In return, you receive cookies from three food bloggers. Great right? A whole lot of cookies!!
I received three delicious dozen of cookies from my matches! Frank and Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm, Nicole from Confectionalism, Lisa and Anna from Garnish with Lemon spoiled me with the best holiday cookies I’ve had. Thank you very much ladies for the wonderful cookies.
And I hope my recipients Lynsey, Faye and Natasha enjoyed these double chocolate crinkle cookies. I figured I should make a more classic holiday cookie this year for the cookie swap. Last year I made these Butterscotch Gingersnap Molasses Cookies that were delicious but a few of my family members did not like the addition of butterscotch (crazy I know!). So to keep things traditional, I made some crinkles! Chocolate crinkles. Wait make that double chocolate crinkles! These have an intense chocolate flavor made bolder with some espresso powder and a super gooey moist interior. Just amazing! And perfect for a cookie swap.
Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These double chocolate crinkle cookies have a deep chocolate flavor and are moist and tender with a gooey interior!
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups brown sugar, packed
- 3 large eggs
- 4 teaspoons instant espresso powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl, whisk the brown sugar, eggs, espresso powder and vanilla together. In a small saucepan, combine the chocolate and butter. Melt over low heat and stirring occasionally.
- Whisk the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture until combined. Using a rubber spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the wet until no streaks of flour remain. Let the dough rest at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.
- Place the granulated sugar and confectioners' sugar in two separate bowls. Scoop about 2 tablespoons dough and roll into balls. Roll dough in granulated sugar and then transfer to confectioner's sugar. Roll to coat. Place on prepared cookie sheet, 2 inches apart from each other.
- Bake cookies until puffed and cracked, about 12 minutes, rotating sheet halfway through baking. The centers will still be soft. Let cookies cool completely on baking sheet before serving.
More Christmas Cookies from Across the Web:
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Chunky Dark Chocolate Chunker Cookies – A Law Student’s Wife
Those sound fab! I love crinkle cookies, this variation looks wonderful 🙂
You can’t go wrong with this cookie classic! What lucky cookie swap recipients you had!
Love me some crinkle cookies! Always gotta have them for the Holidays. These look great!
Totally loving these crinkle cookies, Zainab. Especially since they are chocolate cookies! YUM!
Woah…these cookies look perfect, Zainab! I could totally go for some this morning with my coffee. 🙂
Chocolate crinkles are my favorite.. I know all of your recipients must have loved them!
These look amazing! I love the addition of espresso powder, and WOW they look chewy and gooey! Yum!! Darn… I should’ve signed up for the cookie swap and maybe I would’ve gotten these in the mail!
Love crinkle cookies! The addition of the espresso powder sounds wonderful. 🙂
These cookies are definitely a must for Christmas time. I love the extra chocolate. I bet you made your three recipients extra happy with their deliveries.
These look amazing, Zainab!! I love crinkle cookies and would have loved to get these in the mail! The addition of espresso powder sounds awesome! All your recipients are so lucky 🙂
Love crinkle cookies! Love all the chocolate in these!
I make chocolate crinkle cookies every year to give away! They’re a huge favorite and I think someone would be seriously offended if I stopped giving them out. You can’t beat the chocolate-y gooeyness of these cookies!
The more chocolatey the crinkle the cookie, the better, and these look they’d do the job perfectly! 🙂
These are beauties! Thanks for the link love 🙂
I made almost the same recipe last week to take to a party. I can attest that they are delicious and a crowd pleaser!!!!
What lucky recipients! Espresso powder in my chocolate baked goods is my secret ingredient 😉
now I wish I had participated – these cookies look terrific!!
The cookie swap sounds like a ton of fun! What a great idea! I have had the opportunity to try chocolate crinkle cookies and I thought they were delicious so I can only imagine how good these are. Your photos look amazing!
I love the overall look of crinkle cookies. These look delicious.
Yummy! What beautiful crinkle cookies. Your food blogger cookie exchange recipients are so lucky! I wish I participated too!
These look so perfectly chocolately and chewy. I am soo jealous of your recipients. Beautiful job!
These cookies look amazing, Zainab! LOVE the double chocolate flavour, very tasty! A cookie swap sounds so exciting! 😀
We must totally be on the same wavelength, because I just posted a crinkle cookie as well! Great minds think alike 🙂 Loving these… they are so beautiful!
LOVE! These look amazing!
These cookies look soo good! Love the crinkles 🙂
The cookie swap sounds like such a cool idea, Zainab! I love that you chose something so simple and yet so delicious and Christmasy-looking. You’ve also inspired me to have a go at making some crinkle cookies!
These were indeed chocolatey, moist, and tender. Thanks so much for sending these, Zainab! They were amazing!!!
These are one of my holiday favorites 🙂
ahhhh these cookies look SO chocolatey! I love how intense they look. Mmmmm
Yum! Bet your cookie swap partners enjoyed these!
Dawww, such a good cause! I’m definitely signing up to participate in the future. I bet your recipients were suuuper lucky, because these look amazing, Zainab! Happy holidays to ya!
Chocolate crinkles are one of my favorite kinds of cookie at this time of year. Yours look even better than the original! I love that you added espresso!
I love adding coffee to chocolate!!
Just made these…but it’s batter not dough. Are the measurements right?
Hi Angie. I am sorry to hear that. I just doubled checked again and yes the measurements are correct. Can you double check you measured correctly?
Have to you ever freezed these? If so, how were they once unfrozen?
I’ve frozen the dough before and they turned out great. I usually keep the dough in fridge overnight before rolling and covering in powdered sugar.