These Chocolate Crackle Cookies are pretty, delicious and just like a brownie in biscuit form!

Posted August 8, 2018, Updated December 1, 2025

 

These would make a beautiful Christmas Cookie, they are just so pretty once baked and of course delicious! A fun way to make a biscuit with a few extra steps thrown in. Plus I don’t think you can have too many biscuit and cookie recipes on-hand!

I am getting quite a recipe collection which you can check out here

 

The texture is quite different to what you are used to with a biscuit. They are more of a soft biscuit with a definite brownie texture and taste. In the recipe I have suggested chocolate chips as optional extra as they can add an even more chocolately taste.

The better quality and richer the cocoa you use the better the outcome will be.

 

Mostly I just liked the final look of these and wanted to give them a try! The crackle texture is achieved by coating the rolled dough into icing sugar, then baking them as balls.

As they settle and begin to cook they crack and this gives the texture. Once they cool they look really cool. I have a few other flavours to try and share with you coming soon. Thinking lemon!

 

There are a few steps to get the biscuits just right, I tested a few batches to get the outcome I wanted. It is important that you chill the dough before you prepare the biscuits or they will spread too quickly and you will not get the right crackle effect.

You can simply pop the mixture in the freezer for 10 minutes or half an hour in the fridge. It doesn’t take long.

 

Then you simply roll into balls and coat generously in icing sugar, bake and watch! I also reduced the cooking time and temperature so that they maintain that soft lovely fudgy finish of a brownie – so cooking time of 10-12 minutes is more than enough.

And it is super important to allow these biscuits to almost completely cool on the tray before carefully transfering them to a wire rack as they are a softer biscuit. If you didn’t already know I am a big brownie fan – you can find some of them here – Seven Beautiful Brownies

 

I also have a divine orange version now! You can also make this with lemon, simply replacing the orange with lemon.

Find the recipe for my Orange Crackle Biscuits here

 

So without further ado onto the recipe for my Chocolate Crackle Brownie Biscuits.

Recipe adapted from Genius Kitchen

I hope you enjoy this lovely simple but effective recipe! Definitely one to share for all the chocolate lovers you know.

 

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Happy Baking!

Anna

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