Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

A little bit of work to make, but these chocolate crinkle cookies are fun for the winter holidays!

Serves: about 20 cookies

Prep Time: 8 min, plus at least 2 hours chilling time

Cooking Time: 10-12 min

Total:  18 min, plus 2 hours chilling time

Ingredients

1/2 cup dark chocolate, melted
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tbsp. vegetable or sunflower oil
1 egg, lightly whisked
1/2 tsp. vanilla or peppermint extract
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
about 3/4 cup powdered icing sugar

Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
2. In a saucepan, melt chocolate over low heat.  Remove from heat and add sugar and oil, stirring until fully combined.
3. Then mix in egg and vanilla or peppermint extract.
4. Slowly add dry flour mixture to the chocolate mixture, mixing until a dough forms.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours.  The dough needs to remain cold and hard until baking for the cookies to crackle, as it does not absorb the icing sugar coating.
6. Scoop and roll tablespoon-sized balls of dough.
7. Place icing sugar in a small, shallow bowl. Generously coat each ball with powdered icing sugar.
8. Place balls about 1 inch apart on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes.
9. Remove from oven and let cool on the pan.

Lightly adapted from mykitchenantics.blogspot.com