Preparation: 30 min
Cooking time: 13-15 min
Waiting time: 2-3 hours
Portion: 10-12 crinkles
Difficulty: 3/5
Ingredient
-All purpose flour: 200 gr
-Cocoa powder: 12 gr
-Baking powder: 1 tsp (5 gr)
-Baking soda: ¼ tsp
-Salt: a small pinch
-Unsalted butter: 80 gr
-Powdered sugar: 80 gr
-Cream cheese: 30 gr
-Egg: 2 – 63-65 gr/ each (shell included)
-Lime juice: 1 tsp (5 ml)
-Red food coloring: 2-3 drops
Vanilla extract: ½ tsp
Decorating
-Powdered sugar: 50 gr for coating
Instruction
- In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, then set aside.
- In another bowl, whip butter, cream cheese and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Mix in eggs 1 at a time, blending until combined after each addition.
- Mix in vanilla extract, lemon juice and red food coloring.
- Slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill 2-3 hours or until firm enough to shape into balls.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Pour powdered sugar into a bowl. Remove dough from the refrigerator, scoop dough out and with buttered hands, shape into medium balls (about 1-2 Tbsp each).
- Roll cookie dough balls into powdered sugar and evenly coat.
- Transfer the shaped doughs on parchment paper lined baking sheets, then bake in preheated oven 13 – 14 minutes.
- Allow to rest on cookie sheet several minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
If you want them a little more chocolatey you can replace 2 – 3 Tbsp of the flour with 2 – 3 additional Tbsp of cocoa powder
⚠️ ATTENTION
- Crinkle batter should be refrigerated in fridge in 2-3 hours to firm, so that you can shape the balls easier. In case if the batter is to watery or sticky, you can mix it with 10-20 gr flour into.
- The sugar coated cookies should be baked immediately because the sugar with absorb into cookies if you let them stay at room temperature for too long.
- The cookies can be a little flat after baking (because of melting butter) but the taste will remain the same.
