Absolutely Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peppermint

Homemade chocolate chip cookies are great, but if you are a peppermint lover, you want a little more. Making the perfect chocolate chip cookie with peppermint takes care to balance the love of chocolate and peppermint. And we’ve done that with these delicious baked cookies.

Make these cookies for your next cookie exchange or holiday party. Or keep them all for yourself.

What Ingredients are needed?

room temperature butter
brown sugar
granulated sugar
eggs
corn starch
vanilla bean / vanilla extract
baking soda
salt
flour
semi-sweet chocolate chips
chopped andes mints

How Can I Add More Peppermint Flavor?

The love of peppermint is different for each person. If you want to add additional peppermint flavor, you could add peppermint extract to your cookies. I would suggest adding less than you want and baking test cookies to see if the flavor meets your needs. You can always add more, you can’t remove it.

blended sugars, eggs, baking soda, vanilla extract and cornstarch

You can make them mocha mint cookies by adding cocoa powder to your dough while adding flour in. Try adding 1/2 cup of cocoa powder and reduce the flour by 1/2 cup. Add the flour in, if the cookie dough isn’t the right consistency.

How Do I Know if the Dough Is the Right Consistency?

The dough will not look like butter. It will pull away from the bowl as well when mixed, leaving the bowl cleaner than dirty. You could also try to roll a cookie into a dough ball, it should not stick to your hands.

stiff chocolate chip peppermint cookie dough

Do I Need Crushed Candy or Candy Canes?

We used Andes mints that were cut into pieces and put into the cookies. We added a have candy into the dough ball as well for additional mint flavor (optional). You could crush candy canes on top of the cookies for additional mint flavor.

Are These Crinkle Cookies?

These cookies are not, but could easily be made this way by dipping in powder sugar before baking. You may want to also dip in crushed candy canes to see the crinkle cookie effect.

bowl of rolled cookies with mints inside

add a little peppermint extract (it goes a long way
addi crushed peppermint candies
use crushed candy canes
mix in peppermint chips
use white chocolate chips with/without chocolate chips
dip cookies in mint flavored melted chocolate and add crushed candy on the chocolate

measured cookies on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper

Can I Make These Cookies Ahead of Time?

Yes. The cookie dough is best used after chilling. You can portion the cookie dough out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and flash freeze. Move the cookies into a labeled freezer bag or container to bake at a later time. After the cookies cool (cookies can cool on cookie sheet, wire rack or parchment paper.

Recipe Notes:

You do not need to roll dough.
Have a stiffer dough to prevent cookie spread
Cooling rack will speed up the cooling process
Use semi sweet or dark chocolate chips (your preference)
Crushed peppermint candy canes or candies can also be added for decoration
Chilling the Andes candies makes them easier to stir into the cookie mix

Add these to your next cookie baking adventure or try our other cookie recipes.

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Bakery-Style Peppermint Chocolate Cookie

Indulge in our delicious chocolate chip cookies with peppermint, the perfect treat for the holidays. Elevate your dessert game today!

Course: Baking, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Author: Regina Sober

Equipment

Ingredients

1 cup room temperature butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped andes candies
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
3 cups flour add more if needed

Instructions

In a bowl add the butter and sugars and cream together until smooth.
Add the eggs and blend well.
Mix in the cornstarch, baking soda, salt and vanilla.
Pour in the chopped Andes candies, mixing together.
Add in the chocolate chips.
Pour in the flour one cup at a time until blended well. The batter should form together and begin to pull away from the bowl.
Place the dough in a smaller bowl (so it fits) in the fridge and allow to chill for a few hours, firming up the butter.
Remove the dough from the fridge and preheat the oven to 375℉.
Get about 1 1/2 Tablespoons amount of dough and form into a ball.
You can add more mints by pressing a hole in the middle and adding half a chocolate candy into the middle of the cookies and closing it inside.
Bake the cookies for 13 minutes. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before removing from the sheet and placing on parchment paper to cool.