WHY ARE MY CRINKLE COOKIES NOT CRINKLING?

If your crinkle cookies aren't crinkling, you may not have rolled them in enough powdered sugar. The cookies will absorb some of the powdered sugar during baking, so it's important to really load them up when you roll the cookie dough balls. I always make sure there is a little pile on top of each cookie dough ball before they go into the oven.

WHAT MAKES CRACKLE COOKIES CRACK?

As crinkle cookie dough bakes, it flattens out and spreads, creating "cracks" in the powdered sugar coating.

WHY ARE MY CRINKLES DRY?

You likely overbaked your crinkle cookies. You want to look for the edges to be just set. The cookies will look underbaked and puffy but will continue to bake and deflate when they come out of the oven.