Easiest Way to Make Homemade Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.

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Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chocolate peppermint cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate peppermint cookies using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:

  1. {Make ready 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
  2. {Take 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
  3. {Take 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
  4. {Get 1 of large egg, at room temperature.
  5. {Get 1 tsp. of vanilla extract.
  6. {Get 1 tsp. of peppermint extract.
  7. {Make ready 1 cup of all purpose flour.
  8. {Prepare 1/2 cup of + 2 tbsp. unsweetened natural cocoa powder.
  9. {Take 1 tsp. of baking soda.
  10. {Make ready 1/8 tsp. of salt.
  11. {Take 1 cup of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.
  12. {Take 1 of baking bar (4oz.) white chocolate.
  13. {Make ready 3 of candy canes, crushed.

Chocolate and mint is a popular combo, especially during the holiday months. The chocolate and peppermint combo in these cookies is perfection. I add a little peppermint extract to the chocolate cookie dough and mix in chocolate chips and peppermint crunch pieces. Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Peppermint Kisses on Top This recipe is a great base for plain chocolate cookies.

Instructions to make Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:

  1. In a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed for 1 minute or so until smooth and creamy. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, then beat in the egg, vanilla and peppermint extracts. Scrape down the sides and the bottom of the bowl as needed..
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt until combined. On low speed, mix the dry ingredients into the wet until fully combined, then switch to high speed and beat in the mini chocolate chips..
  3. Cover the dough tightly and place it in the fridge to chill it for at least 3 hours (and up to 3 days). Take the dough out of the fridge about 20 minutes before you are ready to start baking..
  4. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a couple of baking trays with either parchment paper or with silicone baking mats and set them aside. Scoop about 1.5 tbsp. of dough per cookie into balls and place them on the prepared baking trays, about 2" apart from each other..
  5. Bake for 8-9 minutes, rotating the pan at the 4 minute mark. The cookies will still look very soft in the centers. Allow them to cool on the trays for 5 minutes then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely..
  6. Once they're completely cooled, melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave. Then you can either use a spoon to drizzle the white chocolate over the cookies or you can place the white chocolate in a Ziploc bag and snip one corner off to drizzle it. Sprinkle the crushed candy canes over the top while the white chocolate is still wet, then allow the white chocolate to set and harden..
  7. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week..

The dough bakes up into chocolate cookies that are soft and chewy, but also can handle additions such as chocolate chips, M&M's and yes, a peppermint kiss on top. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Chocolate seemed to be the common requirement from the both of them and I wanted to make it a little bit Christmas-y, considering we ARE officially in December – yay! I took my very favorite chocolate cookie recipe and modified it just a bit to make these Soft and Chewy Chocolate Peppermint Cookies.

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