These spiced crinkle cookies with nutmeg, cinnamon and mixed spice are full of festive flavours but delicious at any time of the year. I love to make them as gifts at Christmas time.
Crinkle cookies are rolled into balls before baking and coated with icing sugar. When they expand in the oven, they crack that icing sugar layer creating the iconic crinkle shape. They also have delicious fudgy interiors and taste incredible!
These crinkle cookies are chocolatey and spiced, and rarely stay on the counter in my kitchen for long.
The Ingredients
- Cocoa powder – for the chocolatey taste
- Caster sugar – we mix caster sugar and cocoa powder to create the fussiness. Other sugars won’t work as well.
- Sunflower oil – or vegetable oil. Olive oil (unless a very light one) will likely have too strong a flavour for these.
- Eggs – use two medium or large eggs.
- Cinnamon, nutmeg, mixed spice – your spices to give you all of the festive flavours.
- Plain flour – use white plain flour.
- Baking powder – to give the cookies their little rise.
- Icing sugar – for rolling the cookies in. Again, you’re not going to get the same visual effect with other sugars, so do use icing sugar.
Spiced Crinkle Cookies
Delicious, fudgy crinkle cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice
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Ingredients
- 60 grams cocoa powder
- 200 grams caster sugar
- 60 ml sunflower oil
- 2 eggs
- 180 grams plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 40 grams icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
- Tip the caster sugar and cocoa powder into a large bowl. Add the oil and stir.
- Crack the eggs in one at a time, stirring thoroughly after each one.
- Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, mixed spice and nutmeg. Stir until it all comes together and there are no lumps of flour.
- Line two baking trays with baking parchment. Put the icing sugar in a small bowl.
- Use a teaspoon to scoop heaping spoonfuls of the mixture. Roll each one into a ball using your hands, then roll in the icing sugar ensuring an even covering before transferring to the baking tray. Repeat with the rest of the mixture.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Allow to cool before eating.
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You’ll want to make these crinkle cookies again and again – they are so easy and delicious