Chocolate crinkle cookies just might be Santa’s favorite cookie of all.

Learn how to make chocolate crinkle cookies.

Once they’re done, it’s hard to eat just one.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Ingredients For Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

You likely have most of these ingredients in your fridge and pantry.

It takes the cookie flavor from good to greatjust trust us!

)all-purpose flour

1/2cupunsweetenedcocoa

1tsp.instantespresso powder

1/2tsp.baking soda

1/2tsp.baking powder

1/2tsp.kosher salt

1/2cup(about 2 oz.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies ingredients

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Add eggs, and beat on medium until smooth, about 1 minute.

Preheat oven to 325F.

Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies adding the eggs to the cookie dough

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Place powdered sugar in a small bowl.

Scoop heaping tablespoons of dough, and roll between palms to form balls.

Place each dough ball, 1 at a time, in powdered sugar.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies sifting together the dry ingredients

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Roll in powdered sugar until dough ball is completely covered.

Gently lift dough ball out of bowl, and place on a prepared baking sheet.

Repeat process with remaining dough balls and powdered sugar, spacing dough balls about 3 inches apart.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies mixing the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients

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(Discard any remaining powdered sugar.)

Bake cookies:

Bake until edges are set and centers are puffed, 10 to 12 minutes.

Let cool on baking sheets completely.

Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies rolling the dough in the powdered sugar

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Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies placing the cookies on the cookie sheet

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Southern Living Chocolate Crinkle Cookies baked on the cookie sheet

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