Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, double chocolate peppermint cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Chewy double chocolate cookies with mint in the batter and on top with a sprinkling of crushed candy cane. Thankfully this recipe satisfies my deepest chocolate peppermint cravings, perhaps just as much as a double scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream. We use a double chocolate chip cookie recipe and add peppermint instead of vanilla extract.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have double chocolate peppermint cookies using 16 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:
- Prepare Cookies
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, 15 to 16 oz divided
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup AP flour
- Get 1/4 cup cocoa powder, natural unsweetened
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp instant espresso powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 stick
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp peppermint extract
- Get 2 eggs, large
- Prepare 1/2 cup chocolate chips, bittersweet (do not exceed 61% cacao)
- Make ready Topping
- Prepare 4 candy canes, coarsely crushed
- Make ready 1 bunch mint chocolate Hershey's kisses
These cookies are rich, decadent and ready to be In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Here's what I love most about my blog and its readers: - I can sit at my lap top in awe of my split ends until I figure out something clever to say to you about cookies. -You'll indulge me if all I want to talk about is. These Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are for the peppermint lover! A peppermint patty hides inside a chocolate cookie that is drizzled with white Make sure you fully enclose the peppermint patty in the middle of the dough, double checking to make sure there aren't any holes.
Instructions to make Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Stir 2 cups chocolate chips in medium metal bowl set over saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth.
- Measure 2/3 cups melted chocolate; transfer to small metal bowl and reserve for drizzling.
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, espresso powder, and salt in medium bowl.
- Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until creamy.
- Add sugar and both extracts; beat until smooth.
- Add eggs; beat to blend.
- Beat in melted chocolate from medium bowl.
- Add dry ingredients; beat until just blended.
- Stir in remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
- Measure 1 level tablespoonful of dough; roll dough between palms to form a ball. Place on prepared baking sheet.
- Repeat with remaining dough, spacing cookies 1 1/2" apart.
- Bake cookies until cracked all over and tester inserted into center comes out with large, moist crumbs attached, 8 to 9 minutes.
- Cool cookies on baking sheet 5 minutes.
- Transfer cookies on parchment paper to racks to cool completely.
- Place unwrapped kisses in center of cookies prior to final cooling so kisses bottoms will melt and meld to the cookies.
- Rewarm reserved 2/3 cups chocolate over small saucepan of simmering water. Using fork, drizzle chocolate over cookies.
- Sprinkle crushed candy canes over, arranging some pieces with red parts showing.
- Chill just until chocolate sets, about 30 minutes.
Perfectly soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies swirled together with chocolate sprinkled peppermint chip cookies make a festive combination for your holiday cookie exchange! I made these Double Chocolate Peppermint Swirl Cookies for the fourth annual Great Food Blogger's Cookie. These Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are so easy to make (made with a boxed cake mix) and are a great way to use up those candy canes! I'm slowly starting to put away all our Christmas decor and getting everything organized. We seem to have a ton of leftover candy canes this year.
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