How To Make Peppermint Bark Cookies
Turn your favorite peppermint bark into a batch of tasteful cookies with our easy recipe! Serve up these minty cookies at your next Christmas party.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 8ozsemisweet chocolate chips,or roughly chopped chocolate bar
- 4tbspunsalted butter
- ⅔cupflour
- ½tspbaking powder
- ½tspkosher salt
- 2eggs
- ¾cupbrown sugar,packed
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 12ozsemisweet chocolate chunks
- 8ozwhite chocolate chips,or white candy melts
- 1¼cupscandy canes,crushed
- ⅓cupsugar pearls,or other sprinkles, optional
Instructions
-
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
-
Heat the semisweet chocolate and butter in a bowl in the microwave at 30 second increments, stirring between each, until just melted.
-
In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
-
In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla extract on high speed until light and fluffy.
-
Reduce the speed to low, then beat in the melted chocolate.
-
Mix in the flour mixture until just combined, then stir in the chocolate chunks.
-
Drop heaping tablespoons of dough 3 inches apart onto baking sheets lined with parchment.
-
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the cookies are shiny and cracked yet soft in centers.
-
Cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
-
When cookies have cooled, melt the white chocolate in the microwave; heating at 30 second increments until just melted.
-
Pour the chocolate into a resealable bag, then snip the tip off one of the corners to make a piping bag.
-
Squeeze the chocolate out of the bag onto the cookies in a decorative pattern, then sprinkle evenly with candy canes and sprinkles.
-
Let the cookies dry for at least 1 hour.
-
Serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 270.84kcal
- Fat: 15.12g
- Saturated Fat: 8.96g
- Trans Fat: 0.08g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.74g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.57g
- Carbohydrates: 36.40g
- Fiber: 2.04g
- Sugar: 30.58g
- Protein: 2.76g
- Cholesterol: 20.40mg
- Sodium: 65.58mg
- Calcium: 43.23mg
- Potassium: 161.73mg
- Iron: 1.19mg
- Vitamin A: 22.77µg
- Vitamin C: 0.05mg
Was this page helpful?
Have your own special recipe to share? Submit Your Recipe Today!