Grain Free Chocolate Crinkles

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Grain Free Chocolate Crinklesare soft, fudgy cookies with a beautiful crackly top.Delicious and sweet, this healthier real food, Paleo-friendly version is naturally sweetened and sure to please.

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Soft and chewy, brownie-like, Chocolate Crinkles are one of the best holiday cookies!

This classic,traditional Christmas cookie, also known as Kringle Cookies or Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, has been around forever.

Every bite is true bliss. If you've never had the pleasure of enjoying one of these cookies before, you've been missing out!Chocolate Crinkles are so delicious and extra special!

This Christmas cookie is similar to fudgy brownies, but in cookie form. The bonus with these holiday cookies is that you get that delectable crackly bite all over instead of just on the top like a traditional brownie bar.

Christmas is not complete without Chocolate Crinkles holiday cookies!

I can't remember a Christmas without chocolate crinkles. As a young kid, every holiday season I baked holiday cookies with my grandma - and sometimes my mom or dad. But the tradition originated with my grandma.

I would get to go visit my grandma overnight and we'd bake all kinds of holiday cookies. Out of all of the goodies we made, my favorite was always chocolate crinkles {... okay, and gingerbread too, they tie for favorite, but chocolate always wins in my book}.

One cookie was never enough, they were just so good! BUT ... the ones I grew up with were loaded with refined sugars and were gluten-packed. I can't have gluten anymore and I prefer to stay away from cane sugar.

REAL FOOD Grain Free Chocolate Crinkles are THE best cookies for the holidays!

You can still enjoy this classic Christmas cookie WITHOUTall of the powdered sugar, white cane sugar and regular flour.

My grain free version tastes just as good (if not better in my humble opinion) and is so much healthier than the original refined sugary version.

You only need 8 ingredients to make these easy Grain Free Chocolate Crinkles!

All you need is some of my favorite grain free flour, quality fair-trade cocoa powder, grass-fed butter,maple sugar and some other basic cookie ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry like vanilla extract, baking soda, sea salt and eggs.

You won't find any powdered sugar in this recipe, only organic maple sugar. It's naturally a little powdery, so all you have to do is give it a quick blitz in your blender or food processor and in seconds you'll have a super fine homemade unrefined "powdered sugar".

Make sure to chill the cookie dough!

The hardest part about this recipe is that you have to wait for the cookie dough to chill.The cookie dough has to be cold! If you skip this step, the cookies will not bake properly.

Waiting for cookies to be ready is always a hard thing! But it's worth the wait in the end.

Once you have the cookie dough made, you'll pop the cookie dough in the refrigerator for several hours until it's chilled through.If you are short on time and need to chill the cookie dough extra fast, you can place the cookie dough in the freezer to set up fast.

Before you know it you'll be rolling up little chocolate balls of cookie dough then rolling them in a dust bath of maple sugar.

For an extra special final touch, you can sprinkle a little bit of flaked sea salt over the tops of the cookies. The flaked salt is optional, but it sure does add a nice little salty crunch.

ThesehealthierGrain Free Chocolate Crinkles are wonderful holiday cookies to make for your loved ones andholiday guests!

Get your kids or grandkids in the kitchen with you to make these cookies! Kids always love rolling the chilled cookie dough in the powdered maple sugar and rolling them into little cookie dough balls.

This recipe makes a big batch of cookies, so you'll have plenty to enjoy or share with loved ones, holiday company or neighbors. The cookies freeze well too! So if you'd like to make a batch and enjoy them over the month of December, you can do that too! That's what I do. I love to enjoy a cookie right out of the freezer when I need a little sweet treat.

So make up a batch of these delicious holiday cookies, share them with friends and family, and make sure you enjoy some too!

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Yield: 40 small cookies

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 13 minutes

Ingredients

¾ cup grass-fed butter or ghee, melted
2 cups maple sugar
4 pastured or organic eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups Otto's cassava flour (<-- andrecommend)
¾ cup cocoa powder, sifted (<-- use)
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon Celtic sea salt (<-- salt)
Sea salt flakes - optional
½ cup maple sugar - for cookie rolling

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, add melted butter or ghee and maple sugar. With a hand-held mixer, mix on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Add eggs and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed just until batter comes together, about 1 minute.
In a separate mixing bowl combine cassava flour, cocoa, baking soda and sea salt. Give it a quick stir to mix it up. Add dry mixture to the wet mixture. Mix on low speed just until the batter comes together - do not over-mix! You can always finish mixing the batter by hand in order to not over-mix the cookie dough.
Place cookie dough in the refrigerator to set up for at least 6 hours or until completely chilled through. I recommend making the dough the day before you want to bake them and let the dough set up in the fridge over night. If you truly need to make a batch of cookies fast, pop the dough in the freezer for about 30 minutes to set up fast.
While the dough is chilling, make your homemade maple powdered sugar. Place ½ cup maple sugar in a high powered blender of food processor and pulse/blend until it becomes a fine powder, about 15 seconds. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a cookie sheet with unbleached parchment paper. Set aside.
When dough is fully chilled, roll tablespoon balls of cookie dough in your hands. Drop cookie dough balls into the powdered maple sugar and give them a roll around in the "dust bath" until they are fully coated. Place balls on lined cookie sheet, spaced about 2 inches apart. Do not press them down. Add a little sprinkling of sea salt flakes to the tops of the cookie dough balls. Bake for 10-13 minutes or just until cracks have formed, DO NOT OVER BAKEor they will not be as fudgy. Every oven is different, I find that my oven bakes them perfectly at 11 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing them from the parchment paper. If you're really careful, you can carefully lift the parchment paper with cookies on it off of the baking sheet and transfer over to a cookie rack, but if you're not too careful the cookies could fall off. Fair warning on that, but it does help the cookies cool quicker. Repeat the same steps above until all cookies are baked.

Notes

Storage:These cookies are still fabulous the next day. If left at room temperature overnight, they're almost softer the next day. They can also be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or in the freezer for months. They taste delicious out of the freezer too!

Cassava flour is not tapioca flour. Cassava is 100% Yuca, a root vegetable. Tapioca is an extracted starch. Cassava flour is awhole food; the entire root, minus the peel. I do NOT recommend using any other cassava flour than the one listed above. It isthe highest quality cassava flour available.

Adapted from My Grandma's Recipe and Allergy Free Alaska'sGluten Free Chocolate Crinkles. Originally published December 2016.

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Nutrition Information:

Yield: 40Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 106Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 99mgCarbohydrates: 15gFiber: 1gSugar: 8gProtein: 1g

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