Description
Chocolate cake mix crinkle cookies offer a quick and delightful dessert solution for home bakers. Powdered sugar coating creates a classic crinkled appearance, making these treats both delicious and visually appealing to you.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box (15.25 oz / 432 g) cake mix
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) vegetable oil
- ½ cup (60 g) powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preparation: Position oven rack in center and line baking sheets with parchment paper, creating an ideal baking environment.
- Mixture Creation: Vigorously combine cake mix, eggs, oil, and vanilla extract, whisking until a cohesive, slightly tacky dough forms with smooth consistency.
- Sugar Coating Station: Establish a shallow bowl filled with fine powdered sugar for complete cookie transformation.
- Portioning and Coating: Scoop uniform dough portions, then meticulously roll each ball in powdered sugar, ensuring comprehensive and elegant white coverage.
- Baking Configuration: Distribute sugar-encrusted dough balls across prepared sheets, maintaining strategic spacing to accommodate natural spreading during heat exposure.
- Thermal Transformation: Slide sheets into preheated oven, baking until cookie edges solidify and surfaces develop distinctive crackled appearance with crisp exterior and tender interior.
- Cooling Protocol: Extract cookies from oven, allowing brief stabilization on baking sheet, then gently transition to wire cooling rack for complete temperature reduction and sugar coating refinement.
Notes
- Manage Moisture Consistency: Ensure dough feels tacky but not overly wet; adjust oil slightly if mixture seems too runny for proper coating and cracking.
- Perfect Sugar Coating Technique: Roll dough balls generously in powdered sugar, using light, gentle motions to create thick, even white layers that develop beautiful crinkle effect during baking.
- Temperature Control Matters: Keep oven precisely at recommended temperature to achieve signature crackled exterior without burning cookie edges; use oven thermometer for accuracy.
- Storage Strategy: Store cooled cookies in airtight container with wax paper between layers to maintain powdered sugar coating and prevent sticking while preserving soft, chewy texture.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 140
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 19 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg