Christmas Crinkle Cookies with a Soft Middle

Christmas Crinkle Cookies with a Soft Middle keeps the shopping list focused on oz white cake mix, eggs, and canola oil. It serves 24 Cookies.

Count on 10 minutes of prep, 9 minutes of cooking, about 19 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 16.5 oz white cake mix
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup canola oil
• ½ teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract
• Powdered sugar
• Food Coloring if desired

How the cooking goes

1. Heat your oven to 350° and line two sheet pans with baking paper. Place about ½ cup powdered sugar in a bowl and keep it to one side.
2. In a medium bowl mix together the cake mix, eggs, oil and extract until few lumps remain.
3. If you are going to add food coloring, do so now; mix to combine. You divided the dough in half and then colored half green and half red.
4. Roll dough into balls, approximately 1.5 inches across, then then roll in powdered sugar until they are generously coated. Place on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. The dough is very soft and will not stay in ball form, which is fine.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 7-11 minutes. 7 for very soft, underbaked cookies and 10-11 for cakier, lighter cookies.
6. Allow it to cool 5 minutes on sheet pan and then remove to a wire rack to cool until it is no longer warm.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the sheet on a rack before the pieces are stacked. A covered tin keeps them for a few days.

If you want another plate from Cookies, open Brownie Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set and Valentine’s Day Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set.