These chocolate peppermint cookies need to be on your holiday baking list if you want to seriously impress! They are soft, chewy and perfectly studded with peppermint crunch baking chips. Plus, they’re ready in under 30 minutes and use just 10 ingredients!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time13 minutesmins
Total Time28 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate cookies, easy Christmas cookies, peppermint crunch cookies
Servings: 24cookies
Author: Beth
Ingredients
3cupsall purpose flour
1cupdutch processed cocoa powder
1tspbaking soda
1tspsalt
2tspcornstarch
1cupunsalted butter2 sticks
1cupgranulated sugar
1cupbrown sugar
2large eggs
2tbsplight corn syrup
10ozbag Andes peppermint crunch baking chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. In a mixing bowl, combine the all purpose flour, dutch processed cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and cornstarch.
In a separate mixing bowl cream the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar together with a mixer on medium speed for, 1-2 minutes.
Add in the eggs and corn syrup, mix again.
Gradually add in the dry ingredients and 3/4ths of the bag of Andes peppermint crunch baking chips, mixing on low or by hand just until combined.
For regular sized cookies, use a cookie scoop to drop 2 tablespoon sized dough balls on a silicone mat lined baking sheet. You can also use a 1/4 cup to portion out the dough. Divide the dough ball in half and you get two portions that are each about 2 tablespoons.
For large “crumbl sized cookies” use a 1/4 cup of dough per cookie. Press extra Andes peppermint chips on the dough balls.
For regular sized cookies, place the cookies 3 inches apart on a silicone lined baking sheet. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before moving to a cooling rack. Bake one cookie sheet at a time.
For large “crumbl sized cookies”, place the cookies 4-5 inches apart on a silicone lined baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 20 minutes before moving to a cooling rack. Bake one cookie sheet at a time.