Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Homemade chocolate peppermint cookies will tick all the boxes, with their chocolate base and soft creamy peppermint filling, then finished with chocolate on top, they taste amazing.
Servings: 36
Ingredients
chocolate cookies dough
- 100 g salted butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
Peppermint filling
- 70 g butter
- 1 ¼ c icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh peppermint
- 2 Tablespoons cream or milk
- 1-2 drop green food colour optional
- Chocolate topping
- 150 g dark chocolate chip melted
Instructions
Chocolate cookie dough
- Beat butter and sugar together
- add in your egg and vanilla and beat until creamy.
- Next add in your flour, cocoa and baking powder and mix with a spatula until it comes together.
- Sprinkle some flour on to your work surface and roll out your chocolate cookie dough.
- I roll out the dough to 5mm thick and cut out with a round cookie cutter 5cm / 2inch round
- Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes in a pre-heated 170.c/ 340.F oven
Peppermint filling
- To a bowl add soften butter, finely chopped peppermint and ½ your icing sugar beat until well mixed, about 2 minutes.
- Next add the other 1/2 of you icing sugar along with the cream and green food colouring.
- Continue to beat until light and silky. You may need to add another ¼ cup of icing sugar if the filling is to soft.
- Add your peppermint filling to a piping bag and pip on to your completely cooled chocolate cookies. Place cookies into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes before dipping in melted chocolate.