Christmas special eggless chocolate crinkle cookies with a soft, fudgy center and crispy outside! Here is my easy-to-make eggless crinkle cookie recipe with detailed step-wise pictures.
Sieve the all-purpose flour and cocoa powder into a bowl and add the baking powder and salt. Mix well and set aside.
Add granulated sugar, whole, sweet condensed milk, vanilla essence and oil to another bowl. Mix well until all the ingredients are well combined.
Slowly add the dry ingredients in batches to the wet mix and combine them gently. The dough should be thick like the one below, and refrigerate for 30 to 45 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 deg F and line a baking tray with parchment paper. After 30 minutes of refrigeration, take the dough and scoop 1 to 1.5 tbsp of cookies using a cookie scoop or ice cream scoop.
Roll them generously in the powdered sugar.
Place the sugar-coated cookies in the baking tray lined with parchment paper. Similarly, scoop out the cookies with the remaining dough and coat them with sugar and line them in the baking tray.
Bake these cookies for 8 to 10 minutes at 350 deg F. I baked them for 10 minutes. Take them out from the oven, wait for 5 minutes, and transfer them to a cooling rack. The cookies solidify as they cool, so do not overbake them.
Let it cool before transferring it to an air-tight container. Here is the soft and fudgy inside of the crinkle cookie.
Notes
I used my entire ¾ cup of all-purpose flour. If the dough is too thick, add a tbsp or two of milk. And if you are using regular APF (non-organic), you might need a tbsp of extra flour.
Instead of vanilla extract, you can use pumpkin spice or ground cinnamon for different flavors.
For added flavor, you can include nuts and chocolate.
I used two bowls to make this cookie dough. But you can make it in the single bowl too. You can mix the wet ingredients and directly sieve the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Gently mix and make sure the ingredients are well combined.
I don't buy icing/powdered sugar separately. I grind my granulated sugar to a fine powder and use the same which I used for this recipe.