Chocolate Crinkles

These were 5 stars, according to my hungry family! I bake for my parents and my siblings, and they said I should make this a regular weekly recipe! No need to add vanilla extract! Instead of using parchment paper, I simply brushed butter onto the pan and preheated the oven in 175 Celsius! Oh, and I made an account here just to comment on this particular recipe! I waited for the butter to soften and mixed it with the sugar by hand not by mixer, if that changes anything (it probably does)...

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Hi, I'm Wolff. I really enjoy baking and this recipe appealed to me a lot. I really love to make cookies! But I was reading the other comments and realized that the recipe might not be as good unless I add vanilla extract. Anyone have recommendations as to how much I should use?

me too! I had to add around 1/2 cup more flour! Even then they were sticky and i had to drop bits into the icing sugar before i could roll the balls but they smell nice and i cooked them for the least time so they would remain a bit gooey/soft in the centre. The family like them so I think it's an alright recipe, the cracks look really impressive.

Not good at all. We LOVE any kind of sweets. These cookies were very dry and had no flavor. I would try a different recipe. We had to throw these away.

Do you have any idea how insulting that comment about testing recipes is or do you just not care?

Disappointing. My mother makes a very similar cookie and I decided to make this recipe instead for a cookie exchange. Mistake. This recipe seemed like a simpler version of my mothers...wrong. Simple cookie, simple taste. Also, my cookies didn't really spread while baking and stayed in their ball-like shape. Really blah. Real Simple - do you test your recipes??

This recipe turned out horrible for me. SO DRY and BLAND. I even added some vegetable oil and vanilla extract and I still trashed it all. :(

I have been making chocolate crinkles for at least 20 years. This is not the original recipe. The original does not contain brown sugar and does contain vanilla.

This is very good. An old friend used to make these for my daughter when she was little and I thought of her while I was making them. To form the balls, coat the left hand with powdered sugar and drop balls of dough from a spoon. Then form the balls with the left hand. I did not find them boring.

I may have a very simple palate but I really liked these. My kiddos did, too. As suggested below, you DO need to use a LOT of confectioners sugar to get them to look like the photo.

These are good ... however having followed the recipe as written, I had to add more flour to make it stiff enough to form the dough balls.

TOO Dry and Boring. They came out of the oven looking just like the picture and the batter tasted pretty good so I had high hopes. Another plus was that the ingredient list was everything I already had in my pantry which made it super simple. But wah-wah they turned out dry and lacking flavor. I even tried adding chocolate chips to the second batch but it didnt help. This recipe needs some help. I agree with the comments below that adding vanilla could help salvage it.

I found these a little disappointing. They are super easy to make, but taste boring. Maybe some vanilla would help. And a tablespoon of dough is too much because they rise a bit. I'd make them smaller.