These Chocolate Candy Cane Crunch Cookies make the perfect holiday cookies for your family and friends! It’s the best mint chocolate cookies recipe you’ll find!
There’s just something a chocolate cookies recipe that is so perfect for Christmas….and add candy cane pieces? They just go together like magic.
I won’t apologize for all of the peppermint recipes you’ll see this month, it’s just too good of a combo to pass up! Sit back, bake some amazing cookies and enjoy!
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How To Make The Best Mint Chocolate Cookies
Start by creaming your butter and sugars.
Peppermint, eggs and vanilla up next!
What Kind of Chocolate Should I Use?
Use Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa powder. Works great! The dark chocolate variety works great too.
Candy cane pieces…my favorite part! You can find them at World Market for $2.99.
Dip each cookie dough ball in more candy cane pieces and bake!
A little white chocolate drizzle please! Place your melted white chocolate into a ziploc baggie, snip the end and use it like a pen. Works great. I used the white Ghirardelli melts. They work great.
Someone at my husband’s work said these were “life changing” I’ll agree with him 🙂
Be sure to try these chilled too!
Chocolate Candy Cane Crunch Cookies
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder I used Hershey's 100% Dark Chocolate, unsweetened
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup crushed candy cane pieces
- 1/2 cup melted white chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, beat the butter and sugars until well combined. Add peppermint extract, eggs and vanilla mixing to combine. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt, mixing to combine. Stir in chocolate chips and candy cane pieces.
- With medium cookie scoop, place dough 1 inch apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until baked through. Let cool for 15 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Drizzle white chocolate over each cookie if desired.
Nutrition
Pin Chocolate Candy Cane Crunch Cookies
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I love chocolate and your cookie recipe is great
Can you melt w just white chocolate chips?
Wow, I made these this weekend and they are absolutely delicious!! Not to mention super easy and you only need one bowl 🙂 This one is a keeper. Definitely will be making these next year!!
The pictorial doesn’t match the recipe. The recipe doesn’t say anything about rolling in additional crushed candy before baking or drizzling with white chocolate afterwards.
How much of each of those two ingredients do you need?
These look super yummy! Love peppermint and chocolate.
Those do look like the perfect holiday cookie! I cannot get enough chocolate and peppermint right now!
Favorite holiday flavor combo! And gorgeous festive cookies 🙂
I need to make these cookies this week – my husband would love them!
Peppermint and chocolate are an irresistible combination! I can’t wait to give these a try!
These cookies are calling my name! So delicious for the holidays!
-Jamie
Can’t wait to make these cookies!!
No need to apologize for peppermint! These are beauties!
Bringggggg on the peppermint! These are lovely!
You’ve been busy baking!! These look divine.
Absolutely LOVING these crunch cookies! Give me more white chocolate drizzle (I actually prefer it over ‘normal’ chocolate). Thanks for sharing this fabulous recipe! 🙂
New combination cookies with peppermint.I really like this cookies.it’s a new creation for this Christmas.Thanks
I am drooling over these, they look so good!
Mmmmm these look soooo delicious — I need to try those crushed peppermints, any time I normally crush candy canes, and bake with them, they always seem to melt
These ones I use work great! They don’t melt and hold their shape and crunch perfectly!
I love chocolate and peppermint together-always a great combination.
What beautiful cookies! These would make a perfect addition to a holiday gift basket. They look absolutely scrumptious!
Oh WOW! I want all things candy cane. INCREDIBLE!
Want a whole batch of these right now for myself 🙂 xoxo
I love this combo too Jenny and these frosting adds the cutest touch!
I just made something very similar to these earlier in the week. Great minds…
And there is nothing better than chocolate and peppermint!
LOVE these yummy cookies Jenny! Happy almost weekend, friend!
I just made a similar cookie:) Love chocolate and peppermint together!
I’m right with you on the peppermint train… these look awesome!!