Chocolate Snowball Cookies Recipe (Chocolate Crinkle Cookies)
This Chocolate Snowball Cookies Recipe is so easy, and makes moist chocolate cookies that stay fresh in an air-tight container for days!
Why This Recipe Works
These little chocolate snowball cookies (sometimes called chocolate crinkle cookies) are easy, fast, and oh so moist. It’s a recipe I found in my recipe box that was written by my husband’s aunt. I remember making them once or twice many years ago. I wanted something a little festive, hence the snowball angle, and easy too. These little cookies are both.
How To Make
- Melt butter and chocolate in microwave.
- Stir well to combine and then cool slightly.
- In a mixing bowl beat the sugar and eggs for 2 minutes.
- Add the butter/chocolate mixture and mix well.
- Add remaining ingredients mixing until smooth.
- Refrigerate cookie dough for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Put about 1 c. powdered sugar in a container with low sides.
- Using a small 1-inch scoop, drop scoops of cookie dough into the powdered sugar.
- Roll each scoop around until covered well, making a ball.
- Place on cookie sheets.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Remove to wire rack and cool completely.
Cake Mix Variation
This variation was left by a reader in the OSP comment section.
Use 1 devils food cake mix, two eggs, slightly beaten, 1 tablespoon of water, and 1/2 cup of shortening. I mix it with a spoon at first, and then mix with my hands to get it nice and mixed up. Roll into balls, roll into powdered sugar, and bake at 375 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes.
Helpful Tips
- Don’t skip the refrigeration step. It really makes the dough more manageable.
- Start with heaping scoops of dough. As you are rolling the scoops in the powdered sugar, make them into a ball shape.
- If you bake the cookies in batches, make sure to put the dough back in the refrigerator so it doesn’t get warm.
- These cookies stay moist in an air-tight container for several days…although they probably won’t last that long!
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Chocolate Snowball Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- powdered sugar (for rolling)
Instructions
- Add butter and chocolate to a microwave safe bowl. Cook until just melted.
- Stir well to combine and then cool slightly. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the sugar and eggs for 2 minutes.
- Add the butter/chocolate mixture and mix well.
- Add remaining ingredients mixing until smooth.
- Refrigerate cookie dough for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Put about 1 c. powdered sugar in a container with low sides.
- Using a small 1-inch scoop, drop scoops of cookie dough into the powdered sugar.
- Roll each scoop around until covered well, making a ball.
- Place on cookie sheets.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Remove to wire rack and cool completely.
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