Crinkle Cookies

True life I have insomnia. It is currently 3:11 am and I am wide awake.

True life I have yet to chronicle all the cookies we made for Christmas.

My mom and I spent a day long in the kitchen whipping up batch after batch of cookies.

I love, love, love crinkle cookies. They don't always make the cut but this year I insisted they did. So we pulled out the recipe from the book and I'm reading off the ingredients, getting them all out (as I was taught) and then I got down to the directions and realized it said baking soda and I had baking powder out because that's what the ingredients told me! So off I went searching for another recipe and found one exactly like ours just with the correct baking substance we needed.

Crinkle Cookies
source: Two Peas & Their Pod

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup canola oil
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions:
1. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
2. Beat oil, chocolate and granulated sugar on medium speed until blended. With the mixer running, add the eggs, one at a time. Next add the vanilla and scrap the sides of the bowl if necessary.
3. Add dry ingredients and mix on low speed, scraping down the sides once. Mix until incorporated, 2-3 minutes.
4. Gather the (sticky) dough into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours or over night.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
6. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and drop into the confectioners' sugar and roll until all sides are coated. Place on baking sheet.
7. Bake for 10 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking.