These are a take-off from the classic “chocolate crinkles” recipe that you may have baked before. The lemony flavor is perfectly refreshing and wonderful in these cookies. Powdered sugar coats the cookie dough balls before baking and lends a “crinkly” look to them when they spread out in the oven. I made mine a tad bit smaller than your usual cookie because I prefer my cookies to be a petite sweet treat rather than large cookie indulgence. Make them regular-sized if you wish. The recipe as written makes 2 dozen cookies. You’ll get more than that if you make them smaller.
This recipe comes from a brand new cookbook by one of my RecipeGirl food photographers: Miranda Couse. She blogs at Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt, and now she’s a first-time cookbook author! Her book is called, Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook: Simple Recipes for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies, Brownies, Christmas Treats and Other American Favorites. If you love to bake cookies, you need this book on your cookbook shelf! There are 150 recipes in the book. Since I’m a cookie-baking fanatic, I have bookmarked so many of them that it’s impossible to share them all. But here are some of my favorites: Banana Bread Cookies, Brown Butter Toffee Cookies, Nutella-Stuffed Cookies, Rum Raisin Cookies, Pumpkin Spice Shortbread Cookies, Butterfinger Whoopie Pies, Fluffernutter Thumbprint Cookies, Peppermint Twisted Candy Canes and Caramel Apple Bars.
These would be a wonderful addition to holiday cookie platters (because who needs everything to look so generic and “holiday?”) Delicious!
Here are a few more crinkle cookies you might enjoy:
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies by Two Peas and Their Pod Chocolate Mint Kiss Crinkles by Recipe Girl Peanut Butter Crinkle Cookies by Averie Cooks Gluten Free Molasses Crinkles by Recipe Girl
