Chocolate Crinkles

Whenever I see these cookies, taste these cookies, or THINK of these cookies I am instantly 5 years old and dangling my legs over the olive green counters of my mom's very olive green kitchen. These were her signature cookies. Simple and delicious and very chocolatey. She never tried to be an over-achiever in the kitchen. (Her kitchen was the kitchen she inherited from Gramma, and the only make-over it ever got was the addition of a tiny white microwave my dad bought her from K-Mart one Mother's Day in the 80's.) If my mom had a good recipe she stuck to it. I think some of us Pinterest-saturated moms could take a lesson from her. If we're always trying to make the latest style of cake pops or fondant-covered-fad, are our kids really going to remember it? Are they going to miss out on that familiar taste that transports their tushies straight back to laminated countertops from the 60's? And how much time will we be spending trying to achieve the culinary perfection we see all over the internet when we could be spending it WITH our kids rolling balls of chocolate dough in powdered sugar and burning our fingers trying to eat them before they're cooled?  I vote for out-dated kitchens, imperfect cookies, messy kids, and memories that make you giggle.

Chocolate Crinkles

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup oil
4 oz. unsweetened chocolate melted and cooled
2 tsp. vanilla
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
sifted powdered sugar

Mix: Sugar, oil, chocolate, and vanilla. Beat in eggs. Stir flour and baking soda into mixture. Cover and chill. On greased cookie sheet, Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Roll in powdered sugar. Makes 4 dozen cookies.