White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies – My Baking Habit

Huge, chewy cookies are full of white chocolate and crunchy sweet canes for a pleasant winter chew. These white chocolate peppermint cookies are positive to grow to be a vacation favourite!

I’m actually, actually into Christmas cookie recipes this 12 months. I imply, don’t get me mistaken, I all the time love cookies in the course of the vacation season. However this 12 months, I’m actually all about them.

I can’t get sufficient of gingersnaps and Oreo truffles (half sweet but additionally half cookie!) and almond crescents and raspberry linzer cookies and…the record goes on.

And now I’m including these huge, chewy white chocolate peppermint cookies to the record. 

In reality, I believe these could be the right cookies to bake for Santa.

Chewy white chocolate peppermint cookies

I do know that peppermint may be sort of a controversial ingredient, and folks have plenty of huge emotions about it.

Some individuals can’t get sufficient of chocolate and peppermint collectively, different individuals can’t stand the combo. Some individuals solely like the 2 collectively at Christmastime. 

Personally, I’m a giant fan of peppermint recipes and like it by itself (like in peppermint marshmallows) or paired with chocolate (like in peppermint bark). 

And as a lot because it goes nicely with darkish chocolate, I believe it completely belongs with white chocolate. Particularly in huge, chewy white chocolate peppermint cookies.

For these cookies, I used the bottom of the New York Occasions chocolate chip cookies. Then I added in white chocolate chips, crushed sweet canes, peppermint baking chips, and a little bit of peppermint extract.

The combo makes extra a cookie with tons of taste, a little bit of crunch, and plenty of chewiness that completely screams Christmas. Anybody who’s a fan of my white chocolate macadamia nut cookies goes to like these.

Easy methods to make my white chocolate peppermint cookies

Should you’ve made my salted caramel chocolate chip cookies or my large s’mores cookies, you’ll be conversant in this cookie dough already!

Components you’ll want

To make my white chocolate peppermint cookies, you will want:

• 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons cake flour 
• 1 2/3 cups bread flour 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 1/4 cups softened unsalted butter
• 1 1/4 cups gentle brown sugar 
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 giant eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon peppermint extract (elective)
• 1 (11-ounce) bag white chocolate chips
• ¾ cup Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips 
• ½ cup crushed sweet canes

I do know that the mix of cake flour and bread flour sounds bizarre, however I promise it ends in a cookie with probably the most completely chewy texture. It’s price utilizing two totally different flours for this!

These cookies are packed filled with peppermint taste because of a combo of peppermint extract, peppermint baking chips, and crushed sweet canes.

Should you don’t have peppermint extract readily available, be at liberty to omit it. You’ll nonetheless get tons of taste from the baking chips and the sweet canes.

I grabbed a bundle of Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips from Goal, however additionally they carry them at my native Jewel Osco. Should you can’t discover them, any peppermint baking chip will work!

Simply ensure you get peppermint and never mint. They’re barely totally different flavors and also you don’t wish to combine them! 

This time of 12 months, you possibly can normally discover luggage of already crushed sweet canes at most grocery shops. If not, you possibly can crush your personal utilizing a rolling pin or a meals processor.

Making these cookies

Get began by sifting collectively the dry components: each flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set this apart.

Now use a stand mixer or electrical hand mixer to cream the butter and each sugars collectively till very gentle and fluffy. It will take about 5 minutes. Make certain to scrape the perimeters and backside of the bowl as wanted.

Add the eggs one by one. Combine nicely after every addition, then stir within the vanilla.

Flip the mixer to low and slowly add the dry components till simply mixed. Combine within the white chocolate chips, peppermint baking chips, and crushed sweet canes. 

Now it’s time for the toughest half: ready when you let the dough chill for a full 24 hours.

I do know, I do know, it’s a very long time! However letting the dough chill for not less than 24 hours helps give it the very best taste and unbelievable texture. Your persistence will probably be price it!

Whenever you’re able to bake the cookies, let the dough sit at room temperature for about half-hour so it’s simply mushy sufficient to scoop.

Divide the dough into 2-ounce mounds (in regards to the measurement of golf balls). Place 6 cookies on a lined baking sheet and bake at 350°F for 14-16 minutes, till golden however nonetheless mushy.

The cookies will unfold a bit, however you should use a consuming glass to make completely spherical cookies for those who’d like.

Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes earlier than shifting them to a wire rack to complete cooling.

You possibly can bake off the entire dough directly or preserve it within the fridge for as much as 72 hours.

Storage ideas

Retailer your white chocolate peppermint cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for 3-4 days. You might additionally retailer them in a zip-top freezer bag within the freezer for as much as a month.

If you wish to make the dough and revel in freshly baked cookies any time a craving hits, strive freezing the cookie dough! I prefer to divide it into balls and freeze it so I can bake as many cookies as I would like.

For all the small print, take a look at my information on tips on how to freeze cookie dough.

Ceaselessly requested questions