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Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies
These cookies encase peppermint patties within a cocoa-flavored dough, resulting in a soft-centered cookie with a chocolatey, minty surprise inside. The dough combines Dutch-processed cocoa with sugars and butter, while the peppermint patty melting in the center creates a refreshing burst of mint. Dusting with powdered sugar adds a final touch of sweetness and visual appeal.
Prep Time
15 mins
Servings:
30
cookies
Course:
Baked Goods
Cuisine:
Canadian
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 salt /4 teaspoon
- 3/4 cup Dutch processed cocoa
- 1 cup butter at room temperature, unsalted
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 egg large
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 30 peppermint patties
- powdered sugar for decorating the cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat baking mat. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa. Set aside.
- With a mixer, cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs, one at a time. Next, add in vanilla and mix until combined.
- Gradually add flour mixture and beat until flour disappears. Take a golf ball sized ball of dough, roll into a ball, and flatten it into a disc. Place a peppermint patty in the center and wrap the excess dough up and around the patty. Make sure the entire patty is covered. Repeat with remaining dough and place on prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are set, but still soft in the center. Remove from oven and let sit on baking sheet for 3 minutes. Move to a cooling rack and cool completely. Dust the cookies with powdered sugar.
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