Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and we are in the full swing of holiday baking around here,
and I have to say you guys tag me in the most incredible recreations of my recipes, and
I just love seeing every single one of them but the one cookie that just gets tagged more
than any - that I get tagged in more than any other cookie in the history of 'Laura
in the Kitchen' has been my chocolate crinkle cookies.
It just seems that all of you love them, and so many of you have made them and shared the
picture with me and I love it.
And I've been getting a lot of questions about making different recreations - you know - different
variations of it so that you can recreate them at home.
And I thought well, we're in the holiday season, I love red for the holiday season, clearly.
I love chocolate crinkle cookies, so what better than to just make red velvet crinkle
kisses, that's what I call them, they're like red velvet crinkle cookies with a little chocolate
kiss in the center.
They are phenomenal and they could not be easier.
The ingredients you'll need are some all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder,
I've got some granulated sugar, some unsalted butter that's been softened.
I've got eggs, red food coloring and some vanilla extract.
That is it!
I'm going to make my dough in my standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment - it
makes life really easy.
Okay, I'm going to take my butter, which you know I've got my oven turned on and I sit
my butter on the stove to get it nice and soft so that it kind of melts around the edges
just a little bit but that's fine.
I'm going to add my sugar and my butter and I'm going to let these cream together just
briefly.
I'm going to add my egg and a good splash of vanilla extract, and I'm going to just
let that mix until it's really well incorporated.
I'll make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl in just a minute.
Excellent.
I'm just going to give my dry ingredients a little mix here, doesn't have to be mixed
perfectly, and I will say that recently anytime I use cocoa powder, I've been sifting it because,
I don't know about you, but more and more of my containers of cocoa powder get chunkier
and chunkier, you know, when I buy a new one so I like to sift it, I don't want to get
any big chunks of cocoa because it doesn't get mixed well.
So I'm just going to put my dry ingredients right in, try to get them all in there.
Mix them, get it on the side of the mixer, well that's just going to have to do.
I'm really jolly so I'll be perfectly fine cleaning it up.
Mix this together until it's combined.
Just going to add some red food coloring to this because it will - even though you're
thinking well, that's brown, how's that - just trust me, red food coloring, it works.
You can add as much as you want or until you get the desired color that you're looking
for.
This is looking good, I always like to finish my batter or my doughs by hand just to make
sure everything's mixed really well.
I'm going to pop this batter into a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap and this has to
go in the fridge to set for about three hours or you could even do this overnight but really
no less than three hours, otherwise your cookies won't kind of hold the way they should, so
I'm going to get all this out of here, cover it, pop this in the fridge for several hours
and then we'll move forward!
My cookie dough was in the fridge for about four hours and now I have my oven pre-heated
to 350F, I've got some confectioner's sugar here and I also have a baking sheet lined
with some parchment paper and I am ready to rock and roll!
So I've got my ice cream scoop that's about the equivalent of a tablespoon, I take some
of my cookie dough, pop that into your hand like so, form it into a ball, pop that into
the confectioner's sugar, just like of like the same thing like we did with the - shake
off the excess - like with our chocolate crinkles.
And then just put them a couple inches apart on your prepared baking sheet - and that's
it!
Okay, these are coated and ready to go, I'm going to pop them into the oven at 350F, they'll
be in there for about 10-12 minutes and then I'll show you what to do a couple minutes
after they come out.
My cookies were in the oven for twelve minutes and when you take them out, let them sit for
2 minutes then you're going to take a little chocolate kiss - you can take really any piece
of chocolate you want, I just like this specific one because it's really cute - and you press
it in the center and you hold it there just for a second, because once the bottom of the
chocolate starts to melt, it kind of holds itself in place.
You want to make sure you do this while the cookie is still warm, so that's why I only
like to wait 2 minutes and they're just smelling like - like I don't even know what right now.
So I'm just going to continue to do that and let them cool completely.
Now you know I just, I just have to!
And look, watch.
Just - you feeling me?
I have no words!
You know, what I said on my chocolate crinkles, where it's like a mixture of a cookie and
a brownie?
Called it a 'brookie' - same thing goes for this one.
Perfect.
Really perfect!
Really beautiful to look at, I mean look at them.
How could you not fall in love?
I don't even know!
How can you not love these?
I know you will.
I'm in love.
We need a few moments alone.
Now, you know I want to see your recreations of these cookies all over social media because
sharing is caring and because it is the holidays, and I always say I always love seeing your
recreations but I especially love seeing them around this time of year because it really
feels like we're spending the holiday together.
Because, I don't know about you and your family, but for me, all of our memories are made in
the kitchen.
All of our traditions are in the kitchen, it's just the best place to be, it's where
laughs are shared, memories are made and I feel that way with you.
If you want to get this recipe go onto LauraintheKitchen.com I hope you have enjoyed spending time with
me and here's a little kiss to you!