Exceedingly Chocolate Crinkles

Chocolate crinkle cookies are one of my favorite cookies from growing up. My friend's mom would make them during the holidays, and I liked them so much, even at the age of ten I apparently asked for the recipe. I still have my friend's mom's recipe on a 3x5 card somewhere in my parents' garage. When I decided to bake 12 days of cookies to celebrate the holiday season at work, revisiting these old favorites was at the top of my list. Happily, the boys from Baked have a whole section on holiday cookies in their Baked Occasions, and day 4 are the "exceedingly chocolate crinkles".

These chocolate crinkle cookies were a huge success, both in my opinion, and that of my co-workers. Out of the 14 cookies I wound up baking, these definitely ranked among the top 4. They are fudgy, rich, complex, and utterly perfect when you're craving a little something chocolate.

If you don't have instant espresso powder, you can use dark cocoa powder in it's place. The cookies won't have exactly the same depth of chocolate flavor, but they will still be quite good.

These take only about 20 minutes to whip up and 9ish minutes to bake, so although they require resting the dough in the fridge for a couple of hours, they are not a demanding sort of holiday cookie. Nor should you limit yourself to making them only over the holidays! They are great any time of year, as evidenced by their selection as the Baked Sunday Morning pick in mid-July. Head over to Baked Sunday Mornings for the recipe and to see what others thought of these cookies.