Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, double chocolate peppermint cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. recipes. We use a double chocolate chip cookie recipe and add peppermint instead of vanilla extract.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
- Take Cookies
- Get 2 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, 15 to 16 oz divided
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup AP flour
- Make ready 1/4 cup cocoa powder, natural unsweetened
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp instant espresso powder
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 stick
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp peppermint extract
- Prepare 2 eggs, large
- Take 1/2 cup chocolate chips, bittersweet (do not exceed 61% cacao)
- Make ready Topping
- Get 4 candy canes, coarsely crushed
- Prepare 1 bunch mint chocolate Hershey's kisses
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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.
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