CHOCOLATE CRINKLES

In a large bowl combine combine all these ingredients ......

1. cup of cocoa
2 . cups of castor sugar
2. tsp of vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup of rice bran oil
4 eggs
2 cups of flour
2 tsp of baking powder

Mix together , forming a dough .
Wrap in cling wrap and place in refrigerator for 6 hours.
Preheat the oven to 180 deg C
Tear off pieces of the dough and form into balls the size of golf balls .
Roll the balls in icing sugar
Place the balls on a lined baking tray and bake for 12 minutes .
Cool on a wire rack.

That was on 14 th October ...

THE PACKAGED ALTERNATIVE
Today 16th October I was stopped in the supermarket by a lady holding a red velvet cake mix package , asking me  how much batter in a patty pan , makes a perfect patty  cake .
The cake box product advertised red velvet crinkle cakes ....
The recipe used ...
butter in place of oil
lemon zest in place of vanilla essence
they used a thickening agent ..cornflour
1. box of cake mix ....( that`s bone big load of energy  11532 kj  without the other ingredients )

You choose .