Fudgecrackles Recipes

MILK CHOCOLATE FUDGE CRACKLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a glass bowl in microwave, melt shortening and semi-sweet chocolate chips on Medium (50%). Add in sugar and then eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Let cool for 5 minutes.
• Mix in sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. Add next 4 ingredients; mix well to combine. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 ½ hours up to 8 hours.
• Sift icing sugar in a shallow bowl. Between palms of hand, roll pieces of chilled dough to form 1 ¼" (3 cm) balls. Drop balls into icing sugar and toss lightly until well coated. Place on prepared baking sheets and flatten very slightly. Repeat with remaining dough and remaining icing sugar, spacing about 1 ½" (4 cm) apart on baking sheet.
• Bake each sheet in preheated oven for 11 - 13 minutes or until just beginning to feel firm when pressed in centre. Let cool on baking sheet on wire racks for 5 minutes. Transfer crackles to wire racks to cool completely.
• Note: For a chewier, softer crackle, try Eagle Brand Regular Sweetened Condensed Milk.

FUDGY CHOCOLATE CRACKLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix 1 cup sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla together in a large bowl until well blended. Stir in melted margarine. Stir in flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Mix until well blended. Stir in white chocolate chips. Mix until well blended.
• Cover and chill until dough is firm enough to shape into balls, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls. Roll balls in remaining 3 tablespoons sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crackled on top and slightly firm to the touch, about 20 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

WILDLY WICKED CHOCOLATE FUDGE CRACKLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 3 large (18x13-inch) baking sheets.
• Melt 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips in heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until melted and smooth. Remove from heat.
• Using electric mixer set on low speed, beat both sugars, eggs, corn syrup, coffee granules and extract in medium bowl to blend., Increase speed to high and beat until thickened, about 3 minutes. Add barely lukewarm melted chocolate and beat until smooth. Reduce speed to low. Add flour and baking powder and beat just until combined. Mix in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips. Refrigerate mixture until firm enough to mound on spoon, about 15 minutes.,.
• Drop dough (it will be soft) by well mounded Tablespoonfuls onto prepared sheets spacing evenly apart and forming 6 cookies per sheet. Bake cookies 8 minutes. Reverse cookie sheets and continue baking until cracked on top and softly set, abut 8 minutes longer. Cool cookies on sheets 5 minutes. Using metal spatula, transfer cookies to racks and cool completely. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Store in airtight container at room temperature).

FUDGE CRINKLES (A GREAT 4 INGREDIENT CAKE MIX COOKIE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Stir (by hand) dry cake mix, oil and eggs in a large bowl until dough forms.
• Dust hands with confectioners' sugar and shape dough into 1" balls.
• Roll balls in confectioners' sugar and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes or until center is JUST SET.
• Remove from pans after a minute or so and cool on wire racks.
• *My Notes*:.
• I have tried these with several different cake mix brands. They all come out good, but the Betty Crocker does come out the best.
• I was having a problem with my cookies flattening while baking. This usually happens with the generic cake mix brands. You can play with your oven temp and try them on 375 to keep them from spreading. Adding more oil than called for will also cause the cookies to spread -- I wouldn't suggest it, they really don't need extra oil.
• Another way to keep them nice and thick and to get the most "crinkled" or "crackled" look is to make them bigger. When I roll them at about 1.5 inches they look prettier.
• And my best tip: My confectioners' sugar was consistently being absorbed by the dough. The last time I baked them, I rolled them into balls without rolling in the sugar and let them "dry" for a few minutes. Then I rolled them in sugar and baked. These came out with a nice coating of sugar that didn't disappear.

FUDGY CHOCOLATE CRINKLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Melt butter and chocolate chips together in a saucepan over medium-low heat or in the microwave, until the butter melts.
• Remove from heat and stir until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.
• In the bowl of a mixer, beat together the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
• Stir in the chocolate mixture.
• Stir in the flour, baking soda and salt.
• Chill the dough for 2-3 hours or overnight.
• Pour approximately a cup of confectioners sugar into a shallow bowl.
• Roll 1 1/4 inch diameter balls of dough (a heaping teaspoon) and drop the balls into the bowl of confectioners sugar.
• Working with 4-5 at a time, shake the bowl until the balls are completely coated and place them on a greased or parchment-lined cookie sheet.
• Leave about 1 1/2 inches between balls.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes.
• The cookies will flatten out and the surface will crack.
• Cool on wire racks.
• After the cookies have cooled, I like to shake a little extra sugar on top using a sifter or a small strainer.