Michelle Darmody: How to bake crinkle cookies and the common mistakes to avoid

These cookies are fun to make with younger family members.

You can freeze the cookies for baking at a later stage.

Crinkle cookies have a lovely mottled, crinkled surface. You get this by rolling the balls of chocolate cookie dough in icing sugar before baking them.

This causes the surface of the cookie to dry out before the cookie is finished rising; The sugar dusted surface hardens and cracks apart, producing the two-toned cracked and crinkled exterior with a soft fudgy interior.