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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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
- Make ready 2 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, 15 to 16 oz divided
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup AP flour
- Get 1/4 cup cocoa powder, natural unsweetened
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp instant espresso powder
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 stick
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp peppermint extract
- Make ready 2 eggs, large
- Prepare 1/2 cup chocolate chips, bittersweet (do not exceed 61% cacao)
- Get Topping
- Prepare 4 candy canes, coarsely crushed
- Take 1 bunch mint chocolate Hershey's kisses
This is the time of year that I crave all things chocolate and peppermint. Chewy Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies dipped in white chocolate and covered in peppermint candies. In these cookies any chocolate is good to use! We always use high quality semi-sweet chocolate chips since it offsets the sweetness off the cookie itself.
Steps 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.
In these cookies any chocolate is good to use! We always use high quality semi-sweet chocolate chips since it offsets the sweetness off the cookie itself. But we have made these Peppermint Double Chocolate Cookies with dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and we have also used various baking chunks. A variation on the classic chocolate chip recipe, these cookies have bittersweet chocolate chips and pieces of soft-cut peppermint candy added to them, as well as the traditional semi-sweet. They're quite chocolatey and quite decadent.
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