Are you looking for one more holiday cookie idea? I’ve got you covered with these amazing peppermint chocolate chocolate chip cookies! These cookies are essentially chocolate chip cookies with added cocoa powder to make the cookies themselves chocolaty and the addition of festive crushed crunchy peppermint candy canes! Of course this recipe is super easy to make where you just need to mix the dry ingredients, mix the wet ingredients, mix them together along with the chocolate chips and crushed candy canes and bake them until they are nice and crispy on the bottom but still soft and chewy on the inside! You really can’t go wrong by spending a few minutes to make these peppermint chocolate chocolate chip cookies for the holidays this year!
Peppermint Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chocolate chip cookies filled with festive crushed peppermint candy canes!
ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy cane
directions
- Cream the butter and sugars and then mix in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt and then mix it into the wet ingredients followed by the chocolate chips and crushed candy cane.
- Form 1-2 tablespoon balls of dough and place them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until the bottoms are lightly golden brown, about 8-10 minutes.
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I made the White Chocolate Chip version (but substituted mini chocolate chips). My cookies turned out very flat almost like a crisp. The taste is great but they don't look like your photo. Any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong?
Unknown: The ingredients that you use are going to make a big difference in this and most cookie recipes. I recently tried a different brand of all purpose flour which should have produced the same results as the other brand but all of a sudden all of my cookies were super thick and cake-like. It's unfortunate but once you get used to the flour, butter, sugar, etc that you are using it gets easier. I would suggest adding 2+ tablespoons flour and/or replacing some of all of the brown sugar with granulated sugar.
I’d like to include the candy on top with the chocolate drizzle that I see in the photograph but the recipe doesn’t indicate that step. Do the candies get added once the cookies come out if the oven? And how is the drizzle made?
The candy is crushed candy canes that were sprinkled on the cookies when removed from the oven. The chocolate drizzle was chocolate chips (or a chopped chocolate bar) that was melted in a double boiler and drizzled over the cookies. To melt the chocolate, bring some water to a simmer in a pot, place the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate in a bowl and place it on top of the pot and let the chocolate melt. Choose a smaller pot to simmer the water and a larger bowl for the chocolate, so that the bowl forms a seal when on top of the pot without the bottom of the bowl being in the simmering water.