My poor baking gadgets have been neglected. There they sat, in the drawer, lonely and wondering what they did that was so bad to make me never take them out to see the light of day or feel the heat of the oven.
Poor babies.
Good thing the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap came to the rescue!
This was the second year I participated in this cookie swap, and both times I have had so much fun! I mean, who doesn't like to have boxes of cookies -- freshly baked, I might add -- show up at their door?! Yeah, that's what I thought.
Last year I sent off some cookies to Tennessee, and later met and became friends with the lady who received my box. And, completely randomly, I received a box from someone who lives in the same little town in Illinois that my mother and grandmother grew up in.
Cookie swaps make the world just a little bit smaller...
How nice of OXO to send us all spatulas! You can get one of these bad boys for yourself HERE, and half of the proceeds go to fight cancer in kids. SWEET! |
Luckily we live in the day and age of Pinterest. Within five minutes I found it.
Cookies that taste like brownies???
Yes, please!
To celebrate my favorite flavor of Christmas, I added some peppermint extract. Peppermint + chocolate = a merry Christmas, if you ask me.
And so, Peppermint Crinkle Cookies were born. They lived a good life, for about five minutes, until my husband gobbled them all up, leaving me with one.
He apparently forgot that sharing was caring.
How nice of him to leave me one... ;) |
In the end, these cookies traveled from my home in California to New York, Maryland, and another city not too far away from me, hopefully to arrive in tact and still fresh. You never know with the busy holiday mail season!
And the best part? I got cookies, too! Thank you Natalie at The Sweets Life and Taylor at Greens & Chocolate. You ladies had me at the peppermint... As for Beka, your coconutty cookies were a perfect treat for this half-Brazilian home. You brought a little bit of Natal our way. Thank you!
Cookies from Taylor @ Green&Chocolate |
Another holiday season, another cookie swap in the bag. Merry Christmas!
Recipe adapted from the Magnolia Bakery in Los Angeles
MAKES 24-30 cookies
INGREDIENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups White sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
2 cups White sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
½ tsp. Salt
½ cup powdered sugar
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a small bowl whisk together 2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder and ½ tsp. salt. Set aside.
2. In a medium size stainless steel bowl whisk together 1 cup cocoa, 2 cups white sugar and ½ cup vegetable oil.
3. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking slightly after each.
4. Stir in the vanilla just until mixed.
5. Stir the flour mixture into the cocoa mixture.
6. Cover dough and chill for at least 30 minutes
7. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
8. Using a scoop, roll dough into a one inch balls.
9. Roll the balls in powdered sugar coating generously.
10. Line a sheet tray with parchment paper and bake cookies for 10-12 minutes just until set. Watch these cookies carefully. They are like a brownie and are better when the center is just barely set. The cookies will “crack” on top exposing the soft chocolate center.
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
½ tsp. Salt
½ cup powdered sugar
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a small bowl whisk together 2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder and ½ tsp. salt. Set aside.
2. In a medium size stainless steel bowl whisk together 1 cup cocoa, 2 cups white sugar and ½ cup vegetable oil.
3. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking slightly after each.
4. Stir in the vanilla just until mixed.
5. Stir the flour mixture into the cocoa mixture.
6. Cover dough and chill for at least 30 minutes
7. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
8. Using a scoop, roll dough into a one inch balls.
9. Roll the balls in powdered sugar coating generously.
10. Line a sheet tray with parchment paper and bake cookies for 10-12 minutes just until set. Watch these cookies carefully. They are like a brownie and are better when the center is just barely set. The cookies will “crack” on top exposing the soft chocolate center.
those look really good! and so inexpensive! they look really pretty in your photographs.
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I was shocked at how cheap they were. Budget cookies that taste like fancy ones :)
DeleteYum. I love you even more now:)
ReplyDeleteYay! (But I am not surprised ;) )
DeleteThank you! I loved the mint in these!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! I hope they shipped well and that you were able to enjoy them!!!
DeleteYou reminded of how much I need to try this cookie out! I`ve always seen them around, but never made them myself. MUST. TRY.
ReplyDeleteYes, please do. I kept seeing them and finally went for it. However, the peppermint was my own twist. Simple, but I put my little stamp on it, hehehe ;)
DeleteYUM! Those cookies look delicious :)
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteYou had me at brownie.... no, you had me at peppermint! No... you had me at HELLO! :)
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DeleteMmm what a yummy twist on crinkle cookies! Obviously, I love peppermint and chocolate together, so these sound perfect!! So glad you liked the cookies I sent :)
ReplyDeleteI did, I did! I think I ate them all by myself... No, wait. I shared. I think my husband got ONE ;) THANK YOU!
DeleteYour cookies were so amazing! The BF immediately claimed these as his own, and I found only the crumbs in a bag on the kitchen counter two days later when I went looking for them. I think I got one cookie when they first arrived! My BF isn't even a sweets person so you must have must some magic in there for him to house a whole dozen! Thank you! Can't wait to read more of your blog!
ReplyDelete:) My husband did the exact same thing. At least we got one!
DeleteI love crinkle cookies. I only have done them in chocolate, my moms recipe but I love the addition of peppermint.
ReplyDeleteThey must be delicious!! Gotta try and make them;) thanks for the recipe dear
ReplyDelete(I love your blog so must, I wanna try every single of your recipe:p)
Happy New Year!!!
Beijinho*