These are The Best Chocolate Crinkle cookies! They are easy, rich, fudgy, and rolled in powdered sugar for a festive crackled look. Easy to make and perfect for the holidays or any time you’re craving an easy, chocolatey treat. We provide two options in this recipe for how to achieve the snowy affect. One is slightly less messy but both are delicious!
Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Ingredients
- Butter: To make these gluten-free chocolate crinkle cookies vegan, we use vegan butter. Regular butter can also be used.
- Milk: To make these gluten-free chocolate crinkle cookies plant-based, we use almond or oat milk. If you are not vegan, you can use regular milk.
- Sugar: You can use either sugar or a sugar substitute such as purecane in this chocolate cookie recipe.
- Eggs: This recipe requires one regular egg or two flax eggs (vegan). To make flax eggs, mix 2 tablespoon of flax seed meal with 4 tablespoon of warm water. Let this sit until a gel forms and then it is ready to use.
- Vanilla: Vanilla extract gives these easy crinkle cookies a delicious flavor.
- Baking Powder: A little baking powder will help them rise!
- Cocoa: Cocoa powder is essential for any chocolate cookie recipe.
- Chocolate Chips: Option to add regular or vegan chocolate chips into your cookie dough to make these cookies even more chocolatey and moist.
- Flour: Regular or gluten-free all purpose flour is what we use in this recipe.
- Powdered Sugar: Powdered sugar is what gives our chocolate crinkle cookies that beautiful white crinkle look!
How To Make Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Step 1: Preheat the oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2: Mix the melted butter, milk, vanilla, eggs or flax eggs, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cocoa powder together. Add the flour and mix until a cookie dough forms. Fold in chocolate chips.
Step 3: Chill the cookie dough in the fridge for 25-30 minutes. For the traditional crinkle cookie look, roll each cookie dough ball generously in powdered sugar before baking. This gives the cookies their signature cracked, snowy appearance.
If you’d rather skip the rolling, you can dust the cookies lightly with powdered sugar after baking. The effect won’t be as dramatic, but it’s a cleaner, quicker approach and still adds a sweet finish.
Step 4: Bake and then remove the cookies from the baking and place them on a wire rack to cool. Enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can store these chocolate crinkle cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-5 days. Refrigeration tends to dry out baked goods so I would avoid this if possible.
This chocolate crinkle cookie recipe requires regular all purpose flour, but gluten-free all purpose flour will also work. We like King Arthur Measure for Measure.
This recipe calls for 1 egg, but you can easily make it vegan by using a flax eggs. Mix 2 tablespoons of flaxseed meal with 4 tablespoons of warm water, stir, and let sit for about 2 minutes until it forms a gel. Then, use it in place of the egg in this recipe.
Other Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes
- Vegan Christmas Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
- Vegan Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Frosting
- Healthy(ish) Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
- Perfect Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Healthy Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies
- 15 Minute Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Equipment
- oven
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- mixing bowl
- fork or whisk
Ingredients
Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookie Ingredients
- ½ cup melted butter regular or vegan
- 2 tablespoon milk plant-based or regular
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg or 2 flax eggs, see notes above for how to make the flax eggs (vegan)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup chocolate chips regular or vegan
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
Instructions
Gluten-Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the butter, milk, vanilla, egg, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cocoa powder together until a smooth batter is formed. Add the flour and mix until a cookie dough forms. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Use a cookie scoop or spoon to portion the dough into even balls. Roll each ball generously in powdered sugar, then place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake according for 12 minutes as they spread in the oven, the sugar will crackle into that classic snowy crinkle look.For less mess, scoop and bake the dough balls as-is. Once cooled, dust the tops with powdered sugar. The effect won’t be as bold, but it still gives a sweet finish with minimal cleanup.
- Allow the cookies to cool before on a wire rack before enjoying.
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