Crinkle cookies, which are sometimes called crackle cookies, are round cookies with cracks that are sprinkled or rolled in powder sugar so that the interior color of the cookie shows through and contrasts against the white exterior. These cakey cookies are chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside. They are famous for the powdered sugar that creates their cracked appearance. The original cookies were Chocolate Crinkle Cookies. These were invented by Helen Fredell in St. Paul, Minnesota in the early half of the 20th Century. Chocolate chip cookies are the most popular and well-known cookie in the United States. The original recipe was created in the late 1930s by Ruth Wakefield who famously ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The recipe became so popular that it appears on Betty Crocker’s radio program. A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Today, variations of the traditional chocolate crinkle cookie recipe This cookbook contains a wide variety of delicious crinkle cookie recipes.