Chocolate Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies using Ten Thousand Village Fair Trade Ingredients

In today's post I'm featuring Fair Trade baking essentials from Ten Thousand Villages.

I received a box in the mail a few weeks ago which contained a gift set from Ten Thousand Villages. The gift set contained Camino Cocoa, Golden Cane Sugar, cinnamon, and a few little novelty items for the kitchen all wrapped up in cellophane. I played with a recipe I had received years ago from a co worker for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, adding Fair Trade cinnamon, and double dipping the cookie dough balls in Fair Trade cane sugar and then powdered sugar before baking.

Chocolate Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies
Yields 4 dozen cookies

• 1/3 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup Camino Cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 egg whites
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 1/2 cups flour

Sugar cinnamon for rolling cookie dough balls:

• 1/3 cup Camino Golden Cane Sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

1. Beat butter until creamy.
2. Add brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Beat well.
3. In a small bowl whisk together egg whites and sour cream. Add to first mixture and beat well.
4. Add flour and mix well.
5. Turn cookie dough out onto a long piece of wax paper. Shape dough into a long snake. Roll wax paper around the dough and place in the refrigerator for one hour.
6. Cut 'dough snake' into thin slices that when rolled up make into small balls.
7. In a small bowl mix together the 1/3 cup Camino Golden Cane Sugar and the cinnamon.
8. Put the 1/2 cup powdered sugar in another small bowl.
9. Dip and roll the cookie balls in the cane sugar and cinnamon mixture and then dip and roll in the powdered sugar. (see note)
10. Place dipped cookie balls onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake at 350º for 10-12 minutes. Remove immediately while still hot to cooling rack.

NOTE: Dipping first in the cane sugar and cinnamon helps the powdered sugar to not melt into the cookies when baking and also helps the baked cookies to maintain the snow looking powdered sugar.

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