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Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies

5 from 3 votes
These delicious cookies taste like a mug of peppermint hot chocolate. The blending of the hot chocolate, peppermint and chocolate chips makes this a divine treat!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Servings: 36 cookies
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1-1/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3-1/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup hot chocolate mix with marshmallows
  • 1-1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1- 9 oz filled peppermint baking truffles or 11.5 oz chocolate chips with peppermint flavor added to them *see notes for details
  • 1 cup crushed peppermint

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Beat the margarine/butter and sugars in a large bowl until thoroughly mixed and fluffy.
  3. Add the eggs. Mix well.
  4. Add the vanilla. Mix well.
  5. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, hot chocolate mix in a separate bowl.
  6. As it is mixing on low, gradually add the flour combination. Mix until well blended.
  7. Crush the peppermint and mix it into the dough.
  8. Stir in the filled peppermint baking truffles or your flavored chocolate chips
  9. Drop onto cookie sheets and bake from 8-11 minutes depending on your oven until edges are slightly browned.
  10. Let sit on the trays for ONLY 2-3 minutes once removed from the oven. **

Notes

*In order to flavor regular chocolate chips to become peppermint flavored, put your chocolate chips into a sealed bag and then add several drops of peppermint flavoring.  Gently move the chips around to become coated by the peppermint flavoring.  Let them sit for awhile to absorb flavoring.
**Do not let the cookies sit on the tray for longer than 2-3 minutes.  This will prevent the crushed peppermint from hardening onto the tray and making the cookies stick and break apart when you try to remove them.