With an airy texture and intense chocolate flavor, these Chocolate Crinkle Cookies could just be the American cousin to the French Macaron.
Chocolate macaroons AKA chocolate crinkle cookies
Why his family calls these macaroons I will never understand. But, apparently that name is common, particularly in families with some German immigrant heritage.
Everywhere else I’ve heard these referred to as Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.
The name may have something to do with the light and airy texture and slightly crisp exterior that makes these a potential American cousin to the French macaron.
In fact, if you dive into the history of macarons/macaroons, you find that they trace their origin back, past France, to Italy. To the cookies that Italians call amaretti.
And, some amaretti are quite crinkly. Just like these chocolate crinkle cookies. (Although, the ingredients in the two cookies aren’t incredibly similar.)
American Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
For years, whenever Tim and I would talk about Christmas cookies, his Mom’s Chocolate Macaroons were the first to come to mind.
He didn’t know the recipe, and hadn’t had them in years, but they found a place in his memory and stuck there.
Then, one year we finally asked his mom about the cookies.
Apparently Tim’s love for them went way back, because it took quite a bit of digging to find the recipe. But, the excitement once he had it in his hands was contagious.
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