Easy Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe

This easy Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe makes the perfect holiday dessert. Rich chocolate with a fresh peppermint icing will fill you with the Christmas spirit!

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Everyone Needs A Good Holiday Cookie Recipe

The holiday season brings a lot of opportunities to bakes some serious Christmas recipes. Of course, a lot of these recipes will be desserts! From pitch-ins to cookie exchanges, there are plenty of times when you will need a good cookie recipe in your back pocket. Here at Bubba Pie, you know we’ve got you covered!

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

The cool thing about this cookie recipe is that it looks complicated but it’s actually pretty easy. You simply start off with a nice, rich and chewy chocolate cookie recipe, add some caramel chips and then drizzle it with peppermint icing. The combination of chocolate, salty caramel and fresh peppermint will dazzle the taste buds with holiday cheer! They look great and they taste even better. And, just like so many recipes on this website, there are no tricky ingredients here and you probably already have a lot of these in your pantry!

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Ingredients

For the cookies:

• 1 egg
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 stick butter softened
• ½ cup chocolate chips, melted
• 1 cup flour
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup caramel chips

For The Peppermint Icing:

• 1 cup white candy melts
• 5-7 peppermints, crushed into small bits

1. Line a baking with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3. In a large bowl, cream together egg and both sugars.
4. Add butter and use an electric mixer to beat until smooth. Add melted chocolate and mix until all ingredients are well-incorporated.
5. In another bowl, sift together all dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
6. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
7. Fold caramel chips into cookie dough.
8. Use an ice cream scoop (approx. ¼ cup) to scoop cookie dough onto lined baking sheet.
9. Bake for 11-14 minutes. Allow to cool.
10. In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave candy in 30 second intervals until completely melted. Be sure to stir between each interval.
11. Pour melted candy into a piping bag and drizzle onto each cookie.
12. Sprinkle each cookie with crushed peppermint.
13. Allow to set before serving. Enjoy!

Yields: 12 to 15 cookies

These Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are fun to make with your kids on a snowy weekend afternoon. They’d taste great dipped in some hot chocolate or even coffee. These cookies are garnished with a little bit of crushed up peppermint candy. I’ve seen some versions of this cookie that sub out the icing for a lot more crushed peppermint. If that sounds like your jam, go ahead and try that! But I think the drizzle looks really cool on these cookies.

While this recipe makes 12-15 cookies, it is certainly easy to double if you need to make more for a larger crowd. We will definitely be making these this holiday season! Merry Christmas!

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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe

This easy Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe makes the perfect holiday dessert. Rich chocolate with a fresh peppermint icing will fill you with the Christmas spirit!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Holiday

Keyword Christmas, Christmas Cookies, Holiday Recipes

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 minute

Servings 12 cookies

Calories 288 kcal

Ingredients

For The Cookies

• 1 egg
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 stick butter softened
• ½ cup chocolate chips melted
• 1 cup flour
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup caramel chips

For The Peppermint Icing

• 1 cup white candy melts
• 5-7 peppermints crushed into small bits

Instructions

1. Line a baking with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3. In a large bowl, cream together egg and both sugars.
4. Add butter and use an electric mixer to beat until smooth. Add melted chocolate and mix until all ingredients are well-incorporated.
5. In another bowl, sift together all dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
6. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
7. Fold caramel chips into cookie dough.
8. Use an ice cream scoop (approx. ¼ cup) to scoop cookie dough onto lined baking sheet.
9. Bake for 11-14 minutes. Allow to cool.
10. In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave candy in 30 second intervals until completely melted. Be sure to stir between each interval.
11. Pour melted candy into a piping bag and drizzle onto each cookie.
12. Sprinkle each cookie with crushed peppermint.
13. Allow to set before serving. Enjoy!