We lived in Canada for a couple of years and the one thing I never missed when we moved out of there was nearly six months of snow every year! But the other day I saw this recipe for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies and I was reminded of the first snow falling on the ground ..... my favorite thing to do was to sit on the couch in the living room with a hot cup of coffee in my hands and watch the snow cover the ground slowly ....... I don't have this luxury of time any more and I live in perpetual tropical sunshine .... but I wanted to recreate the magic with my food again .... and I think I succeeded. When these cookies came out of the oven, they were covered in icing sugar .... with cracks in between where the snow had not fallen yet ..... and I went ahead to enjoy these with a lovely cup of coffee ..........

This recipe like a lot of recent recipes on my blog has been adapted from AllRecipes.com . I am always indebted to the people who share their recipes and to those who review it :) To make the initial batter I had some help from two wonderful friends who had dropped by for us to bake together. Unfortunately we could not finish making these cookies on that day. But I do hope they had a nice time with the first recipe we made together :)

Ingredients

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 cups white sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, mix together cocoa, white sugar, and vegetable oil. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the cocoa mixture. Cover dough, and chill for at least 4 hours.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll dough into one inch balls. You can use a number 50 size scoop. I simply used 2 spoons to make balls of dough and dropped them into the icing sugar. Coat each ball in confectioners' sugar before placing onto prepared cookie sheets.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Let stand on the cookie sheet for a minute before transferring to wire racks to cool.