Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Chef Mireille
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These cookies are a great foundation for decorated holiday cookies with seasonal favorite flavors of chocolate and mint.
Are you a decorator?
If you are, I envy your talent. While I can bake a great cake, decorating is a completely different art form that is just not my forte.
That is why you will hardly see decorated cakes and cookies on this site. Most of my cakes and cookies are simply bake and eat. No decorating required!
However, sometimes I do want to elevate the aesthetics of baked goods especially during the holiday season. I am one who goes for shortcut decorating methods.
So how did I easily decorate these delicious cookies?
I used store bought Royal Icing Mix (just add water) and Edible Spray Paint . The spray mist comes in a variety of colors. You can even combine multiple colors on the same cookies if desired.
Or you can also just keep it simple and decorate only with the royal icing and crushed candy canes.
How easy is that? Just add water to Royal Icing Mix. I added a little more water than suggested as I prefer thinner icing. Then sprinkle with crushed candy cane’s and then spray with your favorite color. Who knew gorgeous decorated cookies could be this easy?
You don’t have to be a master decorator to still put together a beautifully decorated cookie!
Before we get to today’s Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, let’s take a look at some other cookies you might want to whip up during the holiday season!
Cookie Recipes
- Pepperkakor – Scandinavian Spice Cookies
- Paprenjaci – Croatian Walnut Spice Cookies
- Sandbakkels – Almond Cookie Cups
- Serkerpare – Turkish Semolina Cookies
- Rugelach – Jewish Filled Cookies
- Hamentaschen – Jewish Purim Cookies
- Spiced Chocolate Butterscotch Cookies
- Fiorentini – Gluten Free Chocolate Cookies
- Bolinhas – Goan Coconut Cookies
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 oz. chocolate at least 72% cacao
- 2 large candy canes or equivalent peppermint candy
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup softened butter
- ¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
Decorating Ingredients:
- 8 oz. royal icing mix
- 3-4 tablespoons water
- 2 coarsely crushed candy canes or equivalent peppermint candy
- Edible spray paint optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with non stick spray.
- Using a double boiler, melt the chocolate.
- Break candy canes into smaller pieces.
- Using a coffee/spice grinder, grind the candy cane pieces to a powder. This should yield about 2 tablespoons.
- In a bowl, combine flour, espresso powder, baking powder, salt and candy cane powder.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, mix butter and sugar until creamy.
- Add egg and chocolate. Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Add flour combination and mix until just combined.
- Using about 2 tablespoons for each cookie, roll into balls and place on cookie sheet.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until set.
- Leave to cool completely before removing from cookie sheets.
- Remove from cookie sheets and now it’s time to decorate.
- To make royal icing, add water and mix until thoroughly combined. Use more or less water, depending on how thick or thin you prefer your royal icing.
- Transfer to a squeeze bottle and drizzle the royal icing onto the cookies.
- Crush candy canes by running a rolling pin over them on a cutting board. You want them to be a little chunky.
- Sprinkle crushed candy canes on top.
- Leave to dry for 5-10 minutes.
- Spray with edible spray paint, as desired.
Notes
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These cookies are perfect for Christmas cookie tray Mir, they are colourful and bursting with Holiday flavours.
thank you and yes make a great addition to any Christmas Cookie Tray!
No I feel the decoration on top is more than pretty..these cookies look so good Mir..
thank you – decorations done in 5 minutes is my kind of decorating 🙂
Mireille like you I love to bake but when it comes to decorating the baked goodies, I’m lousy at it. I wish I could get some readymade icing and decoration stuff. I never think of stopping at a candy shop as I’m not a fan of candies but now I will pay attention to them so I can by candies to add to my bakes and desserts. Good tips for decorating cookies.
If there are any baking supply stores in your city, try there also!
These cookies look so beautiful with the coloured toppings.. I will try them out when I am a bit free after Christmas.
Definitely do – they are delicious for any season!
What burst of festive colors! cookies looks so delicious and tempting to grab some from the computer screen! love the vibrant pictures of the cookies!
thank you – yes colorful cookies make us want to eat them even more
Peppermint cookies look super delicious and colorful.
These cookies look delicious and very flavoursome, they would make lovely edible holiday gifts.
definitely perfect for an edible gift!
Those cookies look great Mir. Being a non-decorator myself I love how simple and easy the decoration on these cookies. Thanks for the idea.
yes I like to keep decorating simple and easy!
Wow! Beautiful cookies and love the idea of using crushed candy canes in there. Cake/cookie decoration is not my cup of tea either 🙂
these are some easy simple ways to decorate