Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

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Chewy Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies A chewy, double chocolate cookie with mint in the batter and on top with a sprinkling of crushed candy cane. Perfect for cookie exchanges, holiday gatherings or alongside a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter's night. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have double chocolate peppermint cookies using 16 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:
  1. Get Cookies
  2. Get 2 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, 15 to 16 oz divided
  3. Make ready 1 1/2 cup AP flour
  4. Take 1/4 cup cocoa powder, natural unsweetened
  5. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  6. Take 1 tsp instant espresso powder
  7. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  8. Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 stick
  9. Make ready 1 cup sugar
  10. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
  11. Take 1 tsp peppermint extract
  12. Get 2 eggs, large
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup chocolate chips, bittersweet (do not exceed 61% cacao)
  14. Take Topping
  15. Take 4 candy canes, coarsely crushed
  16. Get 1 bunch mint chocolate Hershey's kisses

My soft-batch double chocolate chip cookies are actually one of the most popular recipes on my blog. So I wanted to make a holiday version in time for Christmas to share on Oh Sweet Basil. The recipe starts with rich, fudgy double chocolate cookies that taste somewhere in between a brownie and chocolate chip cookie. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease.

Instructions to make Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies:
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Stir 2 cups chocolate chips in medium metal bowl set over saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth.
  3. Measure 2/3 cups melted chocolate; transfer to small metal bowl and reserve for drizzling.
  4. Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, espresso powder, and salt in medium bowl.
  5. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until creamy.
  6. Add sugar and both extracts; beat until smooth.
  7. Add eggs; beat to blend.
  8. Beat in melted chocolate from medium bowl.
  9. Add dry ingredients; beat until just blended.
  10. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
  11. Measure 1 level tablespoonful of dough; roll dough between palms to form a ball. Place on prepared baking sheet.
  12. Repeat with remaining dough, spacing cookies 1 1/2" apart.
  13. Bake cookies until cracked all over and tester inserted into center comes out with large, moist crumbs attached, 8 to 9 minutes.
  14. Cool cookies on baking sheet 5 minutes.
  15. Transfer cookies on parchment paper to racks to cool completely.
  16. Place unwrapped kisses in center of cookies prior to final cooling so kisses bottoms will melt and meld to the cookies.
  17. Rewarm reserved 2/3 cups chocolate over small saucepan of simmering water. Using fork, drizzle chocolate over cookies.
  18. Sprinkle crushed candy canes over, arranging some pieces with red parts showing.
  19. Chill just until chocolate sets, about 30 minutes.

For each cookie flatten ball slightly; press peppermint pattie into. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla. To make these cookies, prepare a double chocolate cookie dough using flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder (optional), baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, egg and peppermint extract. Add chocolate chips for double the chocolate flavor. Roll the dough into balls, flatten sightly and press the top of the dough into crushed candy cane.

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