White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Cookies - The Keen Nutrient Blogger Cookie Swap

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I know I'm a petty belatedly inwards posting this, but HOLY SMOKES it has been a wild trip to crazy town lately! Right at nowadays I'm inwards the antechamber inwards a beautiful hotel on the banks of Lake Michigan inwards Chicago. Last nighttime nosotros went out for closed to Deep Dish Chicago Pizza - truth endure told, I didn't consume whatever (it was crazy expensive). But it smelled incredible. I ordered a sparse crust pesto bruschetta chicken pizza. It was heavenly! 

Anyway, dorsum to these amazing cookies. This twelvemonth I was thence excited to endure able to participate inwards the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. There were over 500 nutrient bloggers who were able to all swap cookies amongst each other (via snail mail), as well as inwards doing so, raised over $12,000 for Cookies for Kids' Cancer. It's incredible! What an amazing stance as well as drive to endure apart of this vacation cookie flavor (and a fun one, too!) I was amazed at how many participated, as well as only how delicious the cookies were that I received from my lovely ladies. They all came inside a few days of each other, which was perfect, thence nosotros could gobble them upwards amongst plenty fourth dimension to taste the side yesteryear side batch. I wasn't feeling upwards to baking during those weeks, thence it was fun to endure able to choose closed to treats for my petty household unit of measurement anyways! 

Instead of going amongst an exclusively novel cookie for the cookie swap, I wanted to portion a cookie that I know was going to endure sure-fire, gustation amazing, non require a ton of effort, as well as would send good to my cookie swap matches. I at nowadays stance of my White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies. Except this time, I took the white chocolate gustation fifty-fifty further. By dunking the finished cookies into white chocolate as well as sprinkles, the Christmas flair only got fifty-fifty to a greater extent than over-the top! These cookies are incredibly soft (using both white as well as cake flour helps a ton) as well as the beautiful pockets of peppermint as well as white chocolate brand this cookie absolutely perfect for dipping inwards hot chocolate. If you're attention a cookie telephone commutation party, postulate to convey a fun Christmas cookie to a household unit of measurement gathering, or fifty-fifty if y'all desire to locomote out something extra exceptional for Santa this year, THESE cookies are a win. 

White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Cookies

makes two dozen

ingredients:

1 C all piece of employment flour

1/2 C cake flour

3/4 C sugar

1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature

1 egg, room temperature

1 t baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

1 t cream of tartar

1 t cornstarch

1 t vanilla extract

two t peppermint extract

2/3 C white chocolate chips + two C white chocolate chips for melting

2/3 C Andes white peppermint pieces

Christmas Sprinkles 

directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep cookie canvass amongst parchment newspaper or cooking spray, laid aside.

2. In the bowl of a stand upwards mixer fitted amongst paddle attachment, cream together butter, sugar, as well as both extracts. Beat on high until lite inwards coloring cloth - most 2-3 minutes. Reduce mixing speed to low, as well as add together egg until only combined. 

3. In a split upwards medium bowl, combine dry out ingredients (both flours, baking powder, baking soda, cream of tartar, as well as cornstarch). Whisk together until combined. With the mixing speed on low, as well as the mixer shield over the transcend of the bowl, gradually add together the dry out ingredients to the moisture until flour is fully incorporated. Toss inwards chocolate chips as well as pepper mint pieces. Mix most 10 seconds more. 

4. Roll dough into 1 inch balls as well as house on prepared cookie canvass most 1 inch apart. Bake for 8-10 minutes. They should expect slightly undercooked, but non raw. Allow to cool on cookie canvass for a minute, thence transfer to a wire rack to terminal cooling completely. 

5. Heat white chocolate carefully inwards the microwave, stirring every xx seconds or so. When completely melted as well as hot, dunk the cooled cookies halfway into the melted white chocolate. Sprinkle amongst a few Christmas sprinkles. Let dry out on a canvass of wax paper. When white chocolate is hard, shop inwards an airtight container amongst a spell of bread. Serve amongst hot chocolate. 

Recipe source:

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