Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

These amazing Chocolate Crinkle Cookies happened. They’re phenomenal and you need them ASAP. As I have been doing a lot lately, I wanted to make this recipe vegan. We’re simply swapping out the eggs for apple sauce, and that’s basically it. Simple and easy. Just how we like it around here.

Author: Food with Feeling

Meal Type: Milk Free

Cuisine: American

Difficulty: EASY

Prep. Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 27 minutes

Servings: 20 cookies

Calories: 169 kcal per serving

Ingredients

¾ cup - cocoa powder
1 ½ cups - sugar
1 ½ cups - all purpose flour
½ tsp - salt
2 teaspoons - baking powder
¾ cup - unsweetened applesauce
½ cup - coconut oil
1 ½ teaspoons - vanilla extract
½ cup - powdered sugar

Instructions

In a bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: cocoa powder, sugar, flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment (or in a large bowl with an electric mixer), mix together the apple sauce, coconut oil, and vanilla until combined.
With the mixer on medium-low, slowly add in the dry ingredients until the batter comes together. The dough will be pretty stick when done. Cover and let sit in the fridge for at least an hour (can also sit overnight).
Roll 1 tablespoon of the dough into a ball. I've found that this is easier to do if I keep my hands covered with powdered sugar (the dough won't stick nearly as much).
Place the powdered sugar in a shallow bowl and toss the cookie balls in the sugar until they are completely covered. To get the best crinkles, you want to have a generous amount of powdered sugar on each cookie ball so do not knock off the excess sugar.
Place the cookies on a lined baking sheet at bake for 11-14 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Let cool and enjoy!
*I baked this several different ways and I found that using a lighter colored baking tray with parchment paper resulted in the best cookies. For whatever reason, the cookies I baked on a silicon mat did not turn out as well as ones baked on parchment paper.
**These are best if you let them cool completely. They're a little fudgy right out of the oven but still totally delicious!

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