Chocolate Crackles

Chocolate Crackles

This is a recipe my son enjoys making with me, especially tasting from the mixing bowl! Mixing and rolling the dough balls are his specialty.
Course Dessert
Servings 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter melted
  • ¾ cup cocoa powder sifted
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • Powdered sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.           
  • In a medium mixing bowl, combine melted butter, with cocoa and stir until smooth.  Let cool.  
  • Add eggs and vanilla, stir well.
  • Add to flour mixture.  Stir, stir, and stir some more.  This takes elbow grease, but it will form into a ball.
  • Scoop the dough by rounded Tablespoons and roll each ball in confectioners sugar.
  • Place cookies on a silicone mat on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 350° for 12 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let cool on the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

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