Easy Chocolate Crinkles

Name: Easy Chocolate Crinkles
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: All-purpose flour 2 cups; Shortening 1/2 cup; Sugar 1 1/2 cups; Eggs 4; Powdered sugar 1 cup; Walnuts 1 cup; Cocoa powder 1 cup; Vanilla extract 2 tsp; Baking powder 2 tsp; Salt 1/3 tsp

Tasty, chocolatey, crumbly cookies dotted with crunchy walnuts

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1h 10m
Serves 36
Easy
350 °F
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Ingredients

	2 cups All-purpose flour
	1/2 cup Shortening
	1 1/2 cups Sugar
	4 Eggs
	1 cup Powdered sugar
	1 cup Walnuts chopped, optional
	1 cup Cocoa powder unsweetened
	2 tsp Vanilla extract
	2 tsp Baking powder
	1/3 tsp Salt

Nutritional information

142

Calories

5.9g

Fat

21.6g

Carbohydrates

2.4g

Protein

21mg

Cholesterol

93mg

Sodium

Cuisine:

American Recipes

Ingredients

2 cups All-purpose flour
1/2 cup Shortening
1 1/2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1 cup Powdered sugar
1 cup Walnuts
chopped, optional
1 cup Cocoa powder
unsweetened
2 tsp Vanilla extract
2 tsp Baking powder
1/3 tsp Salt

Easy Chocolate Crinkles

For a yummy lunchbox snack or afternoon sweet treat, try my Easy Chocolate Crinkles recipe! I guess almost everyone will have tried a chocolate crinkles at some point in their life.

I remember always hoping there would be one tucked inside when I opened my lunchbox a school! Chocolate Crinkles are usually two plain cookies sandwiched together with marshmallow and coated in chocolate. Nowadays of course we like to adapt our traditional favorites and add our own twists! So perhaps you can try using jam, or nutella as a filler, or coating them in peanut crumbs or coconut flakes instead.

Here I’m sharing the basic cookie recipe with you – tasty, chocolatey, crumbly cookies dotted with crunchy walnuts – the finishing touches are up to you!

To make Chocolate Crinkles, you will need the following ingredients:

Ingridiens for Easy Chocolate Crinkles

So, how to make Chocolate Crinkles?

Steps to make Easy Chocolate Crinkles

1	Beat the shortening and sugar	5
Beat the shortening and sugar together in a large bowl until smooth.
2	Add the eggs and vanilla	5
Whisk the eggs in one by one. Add the vanilla and mix together.
3	Combine the dry ingredients	2
Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together into a bowl.
4	Mix the wet and dry ingredients	5
Add the flour mixture a little at a time to the egg mixture, beating until well combined.
5	Add the walnuts	1
Add the walnuts if desired and mix until evenly distributed.
6	Chill the dough	12
Cover the bowl in plastic wrap and place the dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
7	Heat the oven	1
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a baking sheet.
8	Shape the cookies	10
Take teaspoons of the dough and roll into balls, until you have used all the dough.
9	Coat the cookies	5
Roll the balls in the powdered sugar and lay on the baking sheet, with 2 inches between each ball.
10	Bake the cookies	12
Put the tray in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.
11	Cool before serving	10
Leave the cookies to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Your kids will love these delicious homemade Wagon Wheel Cookies - just as much as you do! I think this cookie recipe is pretty easy to follow, but what do you think? Let me know in the comments below!

Dasha Vakulova

Dasha is an enthusiastic and cheerful mom. She knows as well as any parent that children can be really picky when it comes to food. And she’s had plenty of experience trying to cook meals that are both tasty and nutritious, and able to satisfy the tastes of a fussy kid right away! To save you some precious time, Dasha is going to share with you all the tricks she learned the hard way, so you don’t have to! She has a wealth of recipes for quick and easy meals for kids and families on a budget.