Plan ahead ! This copycat cooky recipe involve at least a 4 hour chill time .
Carson Downing
Another Levain favorite , the seasonal dark chocolate - red gum cookie , inspired this Riffian . We turn down the coffee savor ( cocoa andsemisweet chipsinstead of moody cocoa ) but intensified the mint by swear out Starlight pile candies into a ok peppermint sugar that ’s skim with the butter in the dough .
Credit:Carson Downing
Tips for Making Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies
Keep these helpful tryout Kitchen tips in mind when clear thiscopycat cookie recipe .
How to Make Perfectly Round Cookies
To achieve consistent bakery - trend rounds , try out this trick withjust - bake cookies . Using a 5- to 6 - inch round cookie cutter in a eddy gesture , influence the edges of the cookie until perfectly rotund ( you are n’t getting disembarrass of any part of the cookie edge , but model edge into a unadulterated circle ) . Because the cookies are still warm they ’re flexible enough to change shape minimally without smash .
How to Store Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies
To put in this red gum - coffee cookie recipe , home baked cookies in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days or freeze up to 3 months .
Ingredients
1cupsalted butter , softened
1cup packeddark brown sugar
1/4cupgranulated sugar
1/4cupvery finely crushedpeppermint candies
2largeeggs
1tsp.vanilla
2 1/2cupsall purpose flour
1/2cupunsweetened cocoa powder
1tsp.baking pop
1/2tsp.salt
1cupsemisweet chocolate chips
1cuppeppermint - flavoredchipsor 6 oz . chocolate - peppermint square , chopped
1/4cupfinely crushedpeppermint candies
Directions
In a large intermixture bowl pose butter with a sociable until creamy . Add brown sugar , 1/4 cupful of the grain sugar , and the very fine crush candies . bewilder on medium until very light , 3 minutes . Scrape bowl ; beat in nut and vanilla extract . bestow flour , cocoa powder , baking soda , and salt ; vanquish just until combined . Stir in potato chip . Cover and chill cabbage 30 minutes .
Line a tray or cookie rag with sheepskin composition . In a shallow dish meld 1/4 cup granulated pelf and and the delicately crushed candies . Portion simoleons into eight even pieces . work the portions into ball . Gently souse one-half of each dough glob into sugar mixture . billet , sugar side up , on disposed tray . Freeze 4 to 24 hr .
conform oven rack to in-between posture . Preheat oven to 400 ° F . Arrange four dough balls 4 - in aside , sugar side up , on a sheepskin - line big cookie bed sheet . Bake 6 minutes ( do not afford oven ) . Adjust temperature to 350ºF. Bake until edges are firm and cookies look place , about 14 minutes more . take away from cooky sheet ; cool down totally . reprize with remaining dough balls .
Nutrition Facts(per serving)
- The % Daily Value ( DV ) tells you how much a food in a nutrient serve contributes to a casual diet . 2,000 calories a day is used for universal nutrition advice .
