These are the best fudgy brownie crinkle cookies you’ll ever make! The recipe requires only a few ingredients and bakes so beautifully with their shiny crinkly tops. These cookies take less than 30 minutes from start to finish.
Why You’ll Love This
- This brownie chocolate crinkle cookie recipe is the only one you’ll ever need
- All your favorite fudgy brownie flavors are packed into one cookie
- The crinkly crackly tops are so pretty, especially when dusted with powdered sugar
- With gluten-free flour, these cookies are gluten-free.
- This recipe only requires a few ingredients and takes less than 30 minutes to make
- These cookies go really well with ice cream or even a creamy hot chocolate.
- Bring these cookies to your next Christmas party!
Ingredients & Substitutions
Butter – use unsalted butter and add salt later if desired
Chocolate Chips – use semi-sweet chips or any other good quality chocolate of your choice. For this recipe, I used dark chocolate chips.
Cocoa Powder – use any preferred cocoa powder for this recipe.
All-Purpose Flour – substitute gluten-free 1:1 flour for gluten-free brownie crinkle cookies.
Baking Powder – baking powder helps these cookies rise in the oven to have an airy fudgy center.
Salt – both sea salt and kosher salt work in this recipe. For a lower sodium recipe, omit the salt.
Brown Sugar – tightly pack the brown sugar. Both light and dark brown sugar can be used.
Eggs – due to the texture of these cookies, a vegan egg or flax egg will not work.
Powdered Sugar – powdered sugar adds a beautiful dusting to these cookies. This is completely optional.
Let’s Bake!
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a lined baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2:
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat or microwave for 30 seconds until melted.
Add the chocolate chips to the melted butter and stir until combined.
Step 3:
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
Step 4:
Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat the eggs and brown sugar in a large bowl on medium-high speed for 3 minutes until frothy.
Step 5:
Next, pour the melted chocolate mixture into the whipped egg mixture and stir until the chocolate is combined.
Then fold in the dry ingredients with a spatula and mix until a loose batter is formed.
Step 6:
Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, scoop the dough and place the cookie dough rounds on the prepared baking sheet.
Step 7:
Bake the cookies for 13 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit.
Step 8:
Remove from oven and serve!
Tips for Success
- When baking the cookies in the oven be sure not to overbake. Baking time will vary by oven.
- Be sure to let the cookies cool before serving and dusting with powdered sugar.
- The batter should be slightly lighter in texture than regular cookie dough.
- Line the sheet pan with parchment paper to prevent the cookies from burning on the bottoms.
- Use a cookie scoop to help scoop out the dough so all cookies are the same size and cook evenly.
What to Serve With
- These cookies are great paired with a scoop of ice cream or even a hot chocolate.
- These cookies go really well with my chocolate almond latte.
- My holiday thumbprint cookies are another great Christmas cookie to make for any holiday party.
You May Also Like
- Banana Walnut Bread
- Nutella Mug Cake
- Holiday Thumbprint Cookies
- Chocolate Sea Salt Biscotti
- The Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Brownie Crinkle Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat or microwave for 30 seconds until melted.
- Add the chocolate chips to the melted butter and stir until combined. Set chocolate mixture to the side.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Set to the side
- Using a hand mixer (or stand mixer), beat the eggs and brown sugar in a large bowl on medium high speed for 3 minutes until fully combined and frothy.
- Next, carefully pour the melted chocolate mixture into the whipped egg mixture until the chocolate is just combined.
- Fold in the dry ingredients with a spatula and mix until a loose batter is formed.
- Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, scoop the dough and place onto the prepared baking sheet 2 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies for 13 minutes at 350.
- At the 13-minute mark, remove the brownie crinkle cookies from the oven. The tops of the cookies should have a crackly texture.
- Let the cookies cool for 10 minutes. Then dust each with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
Just made this recipe today and turned out so GOOD! I tried with gluten-free flour since i’m gluten free and my husband was such a fan. Will be making more of these for the holiday with the powdered sugar.
I love that! The powdered sugar is the perfect addition to these crinkly cookies.
These are SO GOOD! I never bake and those came out PERFECT!
That’s so great to hear! Thanks for trying the recipe:)
My new favorite cookie. Great recipe!
Amazing! So happy you enjoyed.
Turned out so yummy. My kids loved them and so good with pb frosting.