Candy Cane Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

By - Tiffany King
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are one of my favorite Christmas treats.  This year, I had the idea to roll them in finely crushed candy canes, along with the powdered sugar.

The result is a deeply chocolate cookie with just the perfect hint of peppermint.  Small flecks of red candy cane make them pretty on the cookie plate.

I baked these up using Pampered Chef products for their 2012 Cookie Swap.  I love Pampered Chef.  The products are affordable and made for real people cooking at home.

I have quite a few Pampered Chef products already, but I was happy to try some new ones out.  The adjustable measuring spoons are fantastic.  I didn’t know if I would like them or not, but they’ve already become a favorite.  The cookie scoops are fantastic too.

And one thing really surprised me – the cookie sheet.  I’ve always baked my cookies on a baking stone.  That works great, but this time I used the cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper.  The cookies turned out perfectly.  No sticking.  No burning.  Just sweet perfection.  I’ll definitely be doing that again.

Below, you can see the assembly process for these cookies.  I didn’t roll the dough into balls, but just scooped it into the candy cane powdered sugar and rolled it around.  It made the process much quicker and easier than rolling all those balls.

Here’s what you’ll need to make Candy Cane Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.  

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Candy Cane Chocolate Crinkle Cookies and a Pampered Chef Giveaway

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 - 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 finely crushed candy canes

Instructions

  • Melt chocolate in microwave. Stir in the oil.
  • In a mixer bowl, mix chocolate and oil mixture with sugar.
  • Mix in eggs till well blended.
  • Add other ingredients (except powdered sugar and candy canes) and mix till well blended.
  • Refrigerate for several hours.
  • Stir powdered sugar and crushed candy canes together in small bowl.
  • Use small Pampered Chef cookie scoop or teaspoons to drop dough into powdered sugar mixture, one at a time.
  • Roll each one to cover in powdered sugar.
  • Bake on greased cookie sheet or parchment paper covered cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.

Notes

Instead of baking chocolate, you can substitute 3 Tbs. cocoa and 1 Tbs. vegetable oil for each square of chocolate.

Candy Can Chocolate Crinkle CookiesDon’t these cookies look pretty on the Pampered Chef Shimmering Glass Platter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclosure:  I was provided with Pampered Chef products, as well as a stipend for my time.  All opinions are my own.

This post is linked to Finding Joy in My Kitchen: Ingredient Spotlight Chocolate

    • You can buy baking chocolate that used to come in small squares that were 1 oz each. Now they’ve changed the packaging a bit, so make sure it’s unsweetened chocolate and double check the ounces. I like Baker’s brand. Hope that helps.

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  • I saw in the baking section at Walmart last week, a bag of already crushed candy canes! That is wonderful news to my arthritic bones!

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  • We just polished off a batch of snickerdoodles, and I’m thinking about making another batch tomorrow….unless I decide to make sour cream softies…it’s a tie, I guess.

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  • Oh these look so yummy and I dislike peppermint. My favorite cookie is Molasses.
    I can fondly remember my nana making them around this time of year.

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  • We made Pampered Chef Spritz cookies today and I think they are yummy but if I could only have one cookie it would be the Chocolate chip, fresh out of the oven of course.

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  • I make lemon crinkle cookies each year and it seems to be a smash at my husband’s work because they asked a few weeks ago if I would be sending any for the xmas party. Hehe

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  • I lovemy grandma’s peanut butter chocolate star cookies! At 92, she still bakes this one type of cookie as it is all of our grandkids’ favorite! I think it is because they are baked with a little bit extra love! 🙂

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  • I love baking cookies and instead of saying one favorite recipe, will say that my favorite type to make is “drop” cookies.

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  • My favorite cookie is an old family recipe called Thimble Cookies. It’s a molasses thumbprint cookie that is rolled in pecans and filled with jam.

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  • My favorite recipe is for “Cinnapoppers”. They are Snickerdoodles made smaller to be bite sized. This is a beautiful platter! Would love to finally win!

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  • I love making reindeer cookies using chinese noodles that are mixed in a combination of melted chocolate/butterscotch chips and topped with a cherry! Yummy!

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  • Someone mentioned chocolate crinkles cookies just today at work and I didn’t know what they were talking about. Thanks so much for the recipe and giveaway opportunity!

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  • We have a triple threat chocolate cookie from a food&wine magazine just before my first born arrived. They have been my favorite for the past 11 yrs now and hold sweet memories, too.

    Ironically, my husband just mentioned last night that he was going to add peppermint extract to his family’s crinkle cookie recipe and it is sitting out here to make soon.

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  • Our favorite cookie is called a Ranger cookie and the recipe is out of an old church cookbook from the 1940’s! It’s chewy & crisp with oatmeal, crushed cereal and coconut. . . yum!

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  • I’ve made these before with a slight modification…I rolled them in crushed candy canes only. Many times, the candy canes melted, leaving a hard, crunchy, sticky outside (and a very sticky cookie sheet!), though the inside was good. I never thought to mix the candy canes with powdered sugar; I’ll have to give it a try!

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  • chocolate crinkles are my favorite too and i loved your idea to use so many “candy” topping using one basic recipe. I’ll “steal” your idea! Thanks

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  • Ever since I was a little girl, my favorite cookies were my mom’s chocolate crinkle cookies! I’m excited to try your version with candy cane!!!

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  • My favorite cookie is Oatmeal Raisin. Since i am the only one a my house that likes them i don’t have to share. Which is rare here my two cookie monsters devour any other kind of cookie, leaving me the crumbs.

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  • I just used my medium scoop this past weekend and really wonder why I havne’t owned MORE of them? They were great!

    My fav cookie of all time is the “famous Nieman Marcus” 9 dz cookie recipe, mostly because it tastes good raw!

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    • This is just what sounds good right now. So I can’t wait to try it out. I’m sure at Christmas it will also. Yummy chocolate candy cane cookies.

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  • These cookies look so yummy and the candy cane coating is a great idea! I’ll be trying it later this week with my mom!

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  • The one must have cookie at the holidays for us is spice cookies with pumpkin dip! I love a good cut out sugar cookie also, but I am lousy with a rolling pin.

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