Chocolate Crackle Cookies With Soft Chewy Texture
These unique chewy chocolate crackle cookies can easily become some of your beloved recipes. Cookies are something we can make at home without any extra effort. Plus, they are so easy to decorate and bundle up in pretty ribbons, boxes, plastic decorative bags! Your imagination will work wonders to make that special gift to a teacher, neighbor, friend, and family members.
I’ve heard many names for the same basic recipe of chocolate crackle cookies: brownie crackle cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, crackled cookies, fudgy chocolate crinkle cookies. Wow, it can be a truly battle of words experience. But the principle is the same, you’ll get a crackle cookie each and every time.
These soft chocolate crackle cookies are some of my favorites. They are not that sweet and just hit that craving spot for chocolate. You will enjoy its delicately soft and light texture, too.
Bake these chocolate crinkles from your own kitchen any time. Better yet, ask your children to help you. They would love it! My kids love making them and then devour them with a speed of lightening! The fudgy texture inside the yummy cookie crust makes a perfect combination for enjoying this cookie.
If you are into cookie making, check out these colorful Birthday Cake Sugar Cookies!
And for those who loves soft and gooey cookies, check out this Chewy Caramel Cookies Recipe.
How Do You Make Chewy Crackle Cookies?
Making the dough for these cookies is easy. You just need to know one small trick to make the surface of each cookie crack inside the oven during the baking. Here are the steps of making a perfectly chewy, tender and soft crackle cookie.
Once you mix your ingredients, the dough will feel nice and sticky. This is what your dough will look like before you refrigerate it.
After you take the dough out of the refrigeration and roll rounds the size of a golf ball, the cookies are ready to be put into the heated oven. I use a lavish amount of parchment paper over the baking pan.
While the cookies are in the oven, watch for that special CRACKLE forming in each cookie! It is like a magic box opening up and showing all the treasures inside. Well, I love baking, and this unique development really makes me smile. Each cookie is a unique masterpiece, with the crackles that never repeat in other cookies.
Once the cookies are cooled on the cooling rack, you can pack them into a cookie gift box or use a ribbon to place them into three-cookie-high towers. They are so festive looking! Use them for cookie swaps. Take them to your neighbors as a thank-you gift. The ideas of cookie sharing are endless.
These chewy crackle cookies have a brownie taste inside with a crunch of a cookie on the outside. For this reason, they are a true masterpiece in their own right.
Chocolate Crackle Cookies
Indulge in a soft and chewy texture of these chocolate crackle cookies. They serve as a nice gift, too.
Ingredients
Chocolate Mixture
- 5 oz Premium dark chocolate bar or Chocolate chips
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup granulate sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 4 eggs
Flour Mixture
- 2-¾ cup all purpose flour sifted
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 300 F.
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Melt butter and chocolate bar/chips in a double boiler.
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Add brown and white sugar until melted.
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Add egg one at a time. Set aside.
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In a separate bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt until well-blended.
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Add flour mixture to the chocolate mixture and mix until no more lumps.
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Refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
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Form about 2-inch balls of the refrigerated batter and roll in powdered sugar.
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Place on baking sheet lined with wax paper, 2 inches apart.
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Bake for about 20 minutes. The surface of the cookies will crackle.
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Cool on a wire rack.
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Decorate to your occasion, season, reason!
And to entice you to even more adventuresome desserts, check out these amazingly colorful robin’s egg blue speckled cookies.
Oh my goodness these look and sound delicious! I love chewy cookies!
Charlene,
These cookies are at the top of my list when we bake with kids during holidays. Kids make them in no time!
This looks so yummy! I will try to make this next week. Looks like the perfect treat for the holidays.
It is an easy recipe, and they taste really good.
You can make any decoration on top of them or sprinkle with your favorite colorful sprinkles.
Oh yum those look so delish, I wouldn’t be able to stop eating them!
Krysten,
I make these for holidays. They are really easy to make and look awesome.
This recipe looks like the perfect one to make over the holidays!
Emily,
We have a tradition to make a lot of different cookies during holidays. We take them to our neighbors and friends.
This recipe is so versatile and comes out perfect every single time.
Oh I can’t wait to try this,the crackle makes me excited too.
Great gift idea. Everyone loves it and it’s easy to decorate.
Woaaah… I love the way you have gone into the intricate details of baking these cookies. Christmas is coming up and i guess i’m gonna follow your lead to surprise my family! I hope they like it!
You just made the perfect cookie for me! I want not one but a lot please! Haha!
These look so yummy, I cant wait to bake these for my friends and family. Thanks for the recipe!
They surely look like something worth trying out. Something to indulge myself in during my cheat meal 🙂
Omg thank you so much! So yumm recipe!!
These are great cookies. Shared the article with my wife so thatI can try tomorrow.
Really easy to bake. Even you could do it!
I love anything that has chocolate. I’ll try it tomorrow.
Monidipa,
These cookies are a delight and store well. Plus, you can gift them beautifully.
These cookies look amazing! I love a good cookie recipe and will try this one out!!
I would love to try your soft crackle cookie recipe. Sound absolutely delicious
This is so cool! I never thought it would be so easy to make crackle cookies!
I would love to have these right now. It looks so good!
Wow! this is what my daughters favorite. She really loves to buy chewy chocolate crackle cookies in her fave store. But I guess its time to do her own crackle cookies. Will share this to her.
I love baking chocolate cookies, especially chewy ones so my kids can enjoy them as well 🙂 I’m bookmarking this recipe.
Such details and yummy. Thanks for sharing
These look beautiful. I love chewy cookies but find it so hard to get them right.
Rachel,
I get it. But with practice, you sure can.
These cookies came out perfect the first time I baked them long ago. I reproduce the same result every time. It tells me, the recipe is golden!
these chewy chocolate crackle cookies looks so delicious…. am just fond of chocolaty cookies…. they looks amazing… gonna surely try them…. Thanks for sharing them…..
Wish we could share these via online! Would be such a blast!
Been trying to bake some treats for my kiddies during this stay at home phase but I cant find flour where I live. Thanks for sharing
Oh, my, Elizabeth,
That is not good. I get it. At least we have flour in stores.
But you can try it later when you get the flour you need for baking.
Hugs.
These cookies look and sound amazing! I love that they have the taste of a brownie mixed with the crunch of a cookie!
Lisa,
These cookies are unique. I thing this recipe is just a perfect blend of not-so-sweet brownie with a delightful crunch.
I like my coffee with cookies. This is surely a perfect pair for my hot freshly brewed. I could imagine eating the cookies, crispy in the outside but a bit salty and chewy inside. Wow, thats perfect.
Ramil,
Actually, these cookies are pretty good with coffee as well. They are not too supersweet and mix with coffee great.
These look super simple and yummy! My husband would love them. Pinned the recipe to try.
Jamie,
These are great cookies! I make them only to find out it’s never enough.
The only minus is that the dough needs to stay in the refrigerator for 6 hours. But the mixing is sooo easy.
This recipe can be done with the dough in the morning and baked in the afternoon.
Enjoy, I hope you’ll love these crackle cookies.
These look perfect, I could definitely skip lunch and eat all the cookies!
Oh, you don’t tell me that! I know, these cookies are the delish!
These would make lovely gifts – you can’t beat handmade presents for that little personal touch!
Kate,
These are some of my favorite cookies due to the fact that I can easily decorate them and bundle for gifts.
They really display gorgeous in cookie boxes. We do a lot of them for teachers and neighbors. Just buy food-grade cookie tissue.
I love chocolate and these look so good!
Dana,
These cookies are little magic. Not too sweet, but so soft. They are a great gift, too.