Dark Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Today I received an urgent call for cookies. My aunt was going to be in town and demanded coffee and treats. So I had to break out the cocoa powder.


This call came just in time. I was having a tense morning filled with scary emails and phone calls. Okay not scary, but intimidating. Important. Potentially life-changing. So yes, scary is the right word.

And baking is always a good cure for anything scary. Especially when it involves dark chocolate. And the chance to have it ooze between your fingers. And lick it off a spoon. As usually happens when I make these cookies.

Dark Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup oil (this time I used half canola oil, half extra light olive oil)

• 6 TB unsweetened cocoa powder

• 6 TB special dark cocoa powder

• 4 more TB oil

(You could use 4 ounces of unsweetened baking chocolate for the 4 TB oil and 12 TB cocoa. I was out, hence the cocoa powder/oil approach)

• 2 cups granulated sugar

• 2 tsp. vanilla

• 4 eggs

• 1/2 tsp. salt

• 2 tsp. baking powder

• 2 cups flour

• 1 cup powdered sugar, to roll cookies in

Directions: Mix oil, chocolate, sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Stir in dry ingredients. Chill several hours or overnight. This is not completely necessary, it simply makes the dough easier to deal with. If you don't mind a little stickiness, feel free to bake them immediately. Roll dough into balls (a little smaller than ping pong balls) and drop into the powdered sugar and roll until they are covered. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

Unfortunately, nothing too life changing came out of those scary phone calls this morning. However, these cookies are pretty life changing all by themselves.