Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Cookies
These cookies look festive with white chocolate swirled chips around the holidays, but regular chocolate chips would taste just as good.
ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 sticks butter, softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2-1/2 teaspoons peppermint
2 cups chocolate chips (for the holidays I use swirled white chips)
dip ingredients:
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 teaspoon peppermint
I found these Nestle swirled white chocolate chips for the holiday, which was great for the kid who has a chocolate allergy. Of course I omitted the ‘dipping’ part for his…
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In a mixer cream the butter with the sugars until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating and scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the peppermint, then on low speed add in the flour mixture slowly. Take the bowl off the mixer and stir in the chips.
On prepped cookie sheet, drop teaspoonfuls of batter about 2 inches apart. Bake about 8 to10 minutes, depending on your oven. Cool on a wire rack.
You can leave them as is, or go for the gusto and dip them in a peppermint flavored chocolate. Just put the mini chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, heating it up in 20 second intervals, stirring at the end of each. Careful you don’t burn it, once the chocolate is completely melted, stir in the peppermint extract.
Take each cookie and dip halfway into the chocolate. Let dry on a wire rack.
