Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour

1/3 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/4 teaspoon Coarse Salt

1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature

3/4 cup Sugar

2 Egg

1/4 teaspoon Peppermint Extract

1/2 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

12 pieces Mini Candy Canes, Lightly Crushed

Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside

With a stand mixer or hand mixer, cream butter and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy

Add the egg and peppermint extract; with mixer on low, slowly incorporate the flour mixture and stir until incorporated

Mix in the chocolate chips by hand; chill dough for 2 hours before baking

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Scoop roughly a tablespoon of dough out and roll into a ball. flatten the ball and press the top of the dough with crushed candy cane bits

Space cookies on a sheet 1 ½-in. apart and bake 10-12 minutes until edges are firm and center is soft.

On the last two minutes of baking, add more of the peppermint topping to each cookie

Cool cookies on a wire rack