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Chocolate Crackle Cookies

Published: Nov 16, 2016 · Modified: Nov 16, 2016 by Manju · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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Deliciously chewy, melt in your mouth and beautifully cracked Chocolate Crackle Cookies are a holiday favorite every year, year after year!

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I have always wanted to make crackle cookies just because how pretty they looked. I had never eaten them before this, so I had no idea what I was getting into except that they look pretty. Well, they are cookies. They have chocolate, sugar, butter. It can’t go wrong. Maybe I won’t get the crackle right. So what? I will still have tasty cookies to eat. Tasty, yes. Maybe not pretty. But they turned out to be wonderfully tasty and pretty!

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I will have to say they are pretty easy to make, except that you need to refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours and preferably overnight. I did not read through the recipe and I started making this, only to realize that I had to wait 3 hours to put it in the oven. It was a good thing that I started with this first and not the honey cardamom cookies, so I could start and finish baking them, while this dough sat in the refrigerator.

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Chocolate Crackle Cookies – The Recipe

Ingredients:

Unsalted butter – 4 ½ oz, softened and cubed
Brown sugar – 2 cups
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
Eggs – 2
Dark chocolate – 2 ¼ oz, melted
Milk – ⅓ cup
All purpose flour – 2 ¾ cups
Unsweetened cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
Baking powder – 2 tsp
Ground allspice – ¼ tsp
Pecans – ⅔ cup, chopped
Confectioner’s sugar – to coat

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Add the melted dark chocolate and milk and beat till well incorporated.
Sift the dry ingredients, except pecans in a bowl.
Add this to the egg-butter mixture. Mix well. Add the pecans and mix well.
Refrigerate for 3 hours atleast or preferable overnight.
Take a tablespoon of the batter and roll into a ball. Roll the ball in the confectioners sugar to coat well.
Place the balls onto the parchment lined baking sheets. Leave enough space as the cookies will expand.
Bake for 25-30 mins, until they crackle and the sides look done. Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight containers.
They store well for 3-4 days.

Chocolate Crackle Cookies
Author: Manju | Cooking Curries
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 60
Ingredients
  • Unsalted butter – 4 ½ oz, softened and cubed
  • Brown sugar – 2 cups
  • Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
  • Eggs – 2
  • Dark chocolate – 2 ¼ oz, melted
  • Milk – ⅓ cup
  • All purpose flour – 2 ¾ cups
  • Unsweetened cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
  • Baking powder – 2 tsp
  • Ground allspice – ¼ tsp
  • Pecans – ⅔ cup, chopped
  • Confectioner’s sugar – to coat
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Add the melted dark chocolate and milk and beat till well incorporated.
  3. Sift the dry ingredients, except pecans in a bowl.
  4. Add this to the egg-butter mixture. Mix well. Add the pecans and mix well.
  5. Refrigerate for 3 hours atleast or preferable overnight.
  6. Take a tablespoon of the batter and roll into a ball. Roll the ball in the confectioners sugar to coat well.
  7. Place the balls onto the parchment lined baking sheets. Leave enough space as the cookies will expand.
  8. Bake for 25-30 mins, until they crackle and the sides look done. Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight containers.
  9. They store well for 3-4 days.
Notes
Adapted from : Baking – A Commonsense Guide
3.5.3208

 

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