In response to the colored crinkle cookie post from earlier today. I just made these a few days ago. The cookie recipe is from Sally’s Baking Addiction (https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/double-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/).
I made my own powdered sugar in order to get it colored. First I dyed a cup of regular sugar using a few drops of Americolor food coloring. I just shook it up in a Tupperware container. To make it into powdered sugar add a tablespoon of cornstarch then blend it. I used a coffee grinder. The recipe calls for rolling the dough in sugar before the powdered sugar and I used colored sugar for that. It turned out better than I expected. The homemade powdered sugar could probably have been ground up finer. The small grinder I had only did 1/4 a cup at a time wasn’t the greatest but all I had at the time.
by GrumbleSmudge
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I was curious if anyone would make them!
Pretty inventive and cool!
That’s a good technique. I’m pleasantly surprised! 🙂
For science!!
Ohmy!
One of the comments said that it was ripoff of Sally’s recipe.
But still, if anything is AI generated or modified by AI, I will never trust that recipe.
Props for trying it though.
Looks amazing!
Alchemist!
This post just shows how confidently wrong people are in that last post. Very common on reddit.
Good job–I’m glad that you went to the source. And a win –they look better than the AI!
Thank you! I’m gonna do this for Christmas and make red and green ones. Chocolate crinkles are my second favorite Christmas cookie, after peppermint candy cane twists.
That recipe is one of my absolute favorites, I can’t wait to try this!
Neat!! Might try this for Christmas crinkles!
Nice!
Nice job!!!
I love this community!
Maybe powdered food coloring would provide a better result? I’m not sure how it would work with powdered sugar.
Nice!
I didn’t see what sub this was at first and I thought someone just attempted to recreate pretty patties from spongebob 😭
Can’t thank you enough for the update! These look wonderful!
Oh I’m so happy to see this. I made those AI cookies yesterday and baked half the batch (other half of the batter is still in the fridge). As I was making them I started thinking how the baking science didn’t make sense. Needless to say, the first batch came out with white exterior.
Thank you from a stressed out toddler mom who is prepping for her child’s first school Halloween party.
Well then
This is probably the thing I love most about this app. I’ll see a post with a question, forget about it, and then see another post with the answer three hours later. Awesome work!
I was gonna mix edible sand and regular powdered sugar.
I’m doing these today with orange and purple to see if possible.
Very cute colors! Well done.
Nice, I was not sure how vibrant they would have come out but I didn’t get why people were saying it was impossible. Good job OP.
You don’t need the coffee grinder to make powdered sugar, a regular blender will do.
Maybe this hasn’t crossed anyone’s mind, but couldn’t you just make cookies and use a colored paste on top that’s used for concha’s? Essentially make concha cookies. Just cut along the paste to make it appear cracked.
I didn’t see the original post. I wonder if anyone suggested ube for the purple? Or other natural flavors? I’ve made ube crinkle cookies and they cane out surprisingly purple. I imagine some activated charcoal could work to make black ones and the powdered sugar contrast would be intense.
Saving for red & green at christmas!