Chocolate Crinkles

This is another one of my all time favorite cookies. I posted this recipe last year, but I'm reposting it now (with better pictures). This is a great Christmas cookie. Especially if you're like me and you're giving everyone cookies for Christmas. Who has money for presents? 

Chocolate Crinkles

1/2 c vegetable oil

4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate (1 oz each)

2 c sugar

3 eggs, room temperature

2 t vanilla

2 c rice flour mix

1/2 t xanthan gum

1/4 t salt

1 t baking powder

confectioners sugar

Melt chocolate, then mix with oil and sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time. (If your eggs are cold, it will cause the warm chocolate to stiffen up and then you will have to warm up your dough somehow, so don't do that - use warm eggs.) Stir in the vanilla, then add the rice flour mix, xanthan gum, salt and baking powder. Mix everything together, then stick the bowl in the fridge for a few hours or overnight. 

Heat oven to 350. Form dough into small balls (dough will be stiff) and roll in confectioners sugar. Place 2" apart on a greased cookie sheet, and bake 10-12 minutes (just until they feel slightly firm when you touch the top of one). 

Makes about 3 dozen.