This kosher for Passover recipe for The Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies is simply amazing! The brownie cookie base is fudgy and firm while the sugary top just melts in your mouth. Treat your guests to an unexpected treat on Shabbat, Passover, or Yom Tov with this delicious Chocolate Crinkle Cookies recipe. This recipe is kosher, pareve, dairy free, and gluten free.
Anyone who has been following Yay Kosher is no stranger to the fact that we love our desserts. Our list of The Best Passover Dessert Recipes is becoming a treasury of tasty treats. Recent additions to that list have included our Passover Apple Kugel, Matzo Pudding, and Almond Flour Banana Muffins. Judging from the requests for this recipe and the reaction of my taste testers (my kids), this recipe for Chocolate Brownie Crinkle Cookies belongs right at the top of that list ☺️.
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- Ingredients used to make the Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies
- Instructions on how to make the Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies
- The Best Crinkle Brownie Cookie Recipe FAQ
- Equipment used to make Passover Crinkle Brownie Cookies
- How to store the Best Chocolate Brownie Cookies
- Top Crinkle Brownie Cookie recipe tip
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Ingredients used to make the Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies
This recipe does not use a brownie mix, it is made from scratch using:
- Almond flour - this has been a super important ingredient for gluten free recipes as well as Passover recipes. Almond meal takes the place of white flour as a base and is super tasty in chocolate recipes.
- Unsweetened cocoa powder - we like Dutch processed cocoa because it has a richer flavor.
- Sugar - to sweeten the cookies.
- Salt - helps in baking.
- Baking powder - also helps in baking. Make sure that you are using an approved baking powder if you are making these Chocolate Brownie Crinkle Cookies on Passover as regular baking powder often contains corn starch.
- Potato starch - part of the cookie base.
- Eggs - binds the ingredients together and provides a fluffiness to the recipe.
- Powdered sugar - the crinkle cookie dough is rolled in powdered sugar right before they bake. This is what creates the melt in your mouth coating.
- Oil - we like to use avocado oil for recipes like this but you can also use extra virgin olive oil, vegetable oil, or any other cooking oil.
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions on how to make the Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies
The brownie like cookie with melt in your mouth coating can be yours by following these simple steps:
Step 1 - Make the Batter
Start by beating the eggs and oil in a separate bowl and adding them to the main mixing bowl along with the dry ingredients cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Next, add the almond flour and potato starch. Use a whisk or spatula to stir until all of the batter ingredients are combined.
Refrigerate for at least 3 hours. This allows the Crinkle Cookie Batter to set together properly.
Step 2 - Roll the Cookie Dough in powdered sugar
Dump the powdered sugar into a bowl. Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, scoop approximately 4 oz of dough into a ball and place it into the bowl of powdered sugar.
Roll the ball of dough in the powdered sugar until it is completely coated. Place the coated dough ball onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Repeat until all of the dough has been used up.
Step 3 - Bake the Crinkle Brownie Cookies
Bake at 350ºF for 12 minutes in the oven. The Passover Chocolate Cookies will flatten and the powdered sugar coating with crack at the top giving them their signature look.
Let cool for 30 minutes before serving.
The Best Crinkle Brownie Cookie Recipe FAQ
You may not have chilled the dough long enough. Chilling the crinkle cookie dough overnight helps it to firm up before it bakes. When properly chilled, the dough does not flatten out completely when baking. Rather, the crinkle cookies take on their signature shape. If you did not chill the dough for long enough, then they will flatten out when baking.
It's all about the powdered sugar. Rolling the crackle cookie dough in powdered sugar before baking coats the cookie in sugar. The sugar draws some of the moisture out of the top of the cookie before it completely bakes and this causes the cracks in the top.
Equipment used to make Passover Crinkle Brownie Cookies
- Mixing bowl
- 9x13 baking sheet
- Parchment paper - keeps the cookies from sticking to the baking sheet.
How to store the Best Chocolate Brownie Cookies
You are probably not going to eat the whole batch of cookies in one sitting...probably...you probably won't do this...probably...you most likely won't do this...storage of your leftover Passover Cookies is easy:
- Place the cookies into an airtight plastic bag and store on the counter for up to 7 days.
- Freeze for up to 6 months.
Top Crinkle Brownie Cookie recipe tip
- Make sure to refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours or the cookies will flatten out too much during baking. You can always make the dough and refrigerate the night before baking.
- Let the Passover Chocolate Cookies cool until they get to room temperature so that the coating hardens properly.
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The Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup avocado oil
- 1 cup cocoa powder Dutch processed
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup potato starch
- 1 ½ cups almond flour
- ½ cup powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Beat the eggs and oil. Add them to the cocoa powder, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix until fully combined.
- Add the almond flour and potato starch. Mix until fully incorporated.
- Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
- Preheat an oven to 350ºF.
- Scoop 4 oz ball shaped portions of the cookie dough and roll them in the powdered sugar until completely coated. Place on to a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Repeat until all of the cookie dough has been used.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- Let cool completely before serving.
Notes
Top Crinkle Brownie Cookie recipe tip
- Make sure to refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours or the cookies will flatten out too much during baking. You can always make the dough and refrigerate the night before baking.
- Let the Passover Chocolate Cookies cool until they get to room temperature so that the coating hardens properly.
Marilyn Lazarus Estreicher says
Just fabulous and exactly what I was looking for. thanks!
Leslie says
Just made these and they are delicious! Dough was a bit sticky, but made them work.
Ben says
Thank you.
Janet says
These are delicious! I ended up bringing them to Easter dinner to have a kosher for Passover dessert for my kids (who wants to be the mean mommy denying her Jewish kids dessert at an Easter dinner on top of all of the other parts of the meal they are being denied) and they were a huge hit! Everyone (including those who aren’t on Passover diet restrictions) loved them.
Ben says
Thanks Janet!