Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies
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!
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
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat the margarine/butter and sugars in a large bowl until thoroughly mixed and fluffy.
- Add the eggs. Mix well.
- Add the vanilla. Mix well.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, hot chocolate mix in a separate bowl.
- As it is mixing on low, gradually add the flour combination. Mix until well blended.
- Crush the peppermint and mix it into the dough.
- Stir in the filled peppermint baking truffles or your flavored chocolate chips
- Drop onto cookie sheets and bake from 8-11 minutes depending on your oven until edges are slightly browned.
- 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.