White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
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These White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies are truly a wonderful and unique holiday cookie! I love bringing these unexpected bites of joy to cookie exchanges and parties during the holiday season.
If you are a fan of peppermint, be sure to check out our Peppermint crunch cupcakes – another wonderful peppermint holiday dessert.
Hi Friends! if you have been here a while you know I like to change up recipes for the holidays. This is an homestyle cookie that I changed up with white chocolate chips and peppermint bits.
The combination is so delicious!
Ingredients for Peppermint Cookies
This recipe uses a few special ingredients:
Flour
Sugar
Peppermint candies (We like these)
White Chocolate Chips
Eggs
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For more great Christmas Cookie recipes, check out:
- Crisp Christmas Sugar Cookies – Light and crispy cookies, perfect for cookie cutters.
- Best ever Chocolate Chip Cookies – Our absolute favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe!
- Iced Toffee Cookies – Soft molasses cookies with a lovely iced topping!
- Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies – Soft and chewy oatmeal cookies that are great year round.
- Really Easy Peanut Butter Cookies – These have a secret ingredient and are fabulous!
For more fun peppermint desserts, try these Peppermint Crunch Cupcakes or these White Chocolate Peppermint Pretzels.
Don’t forget to pin these. They are sure to be a favorite at your house.
White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine softened
- 1/2 shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda=
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white baking chips
- 1/2 cup Andes peppermint crunch pieces
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 350.
- 2. Mix shortening, butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla until well blended.
- 3. Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl first, then blend dry ingredients into butter mixture.
4. Fold in baking chips and peppermint pieces.
5. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes.
6. Let cool a couple of minutes before removing cookie sheet.
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Those cookies look delicious. Now I’m hungry and I want to bake cookies.
I feel the same way when I see them 🙂
This virtual cookie exchange is awesome. i’ve been following along (and pinning along) and I feel prepared for the cookie swap I was invited to next week.
It was a lot of fun, but would have been really cool to taste all the cookies.
Those cookies look really good 🙂
Thank you!
The cookies look delicious. I’ve never had any with Andes mints in them. I like the idea of a Cookie Swap too. Sounds like fun!
Thanks Teresa! The cookie recipe swap was fun – enjoying them all from afar. 🙂
I bet Chrystal loved them, they look delicious!! What a fun cookie swap 🙂
They all look delicious! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Camille!
Sounds delicious! Love seeing all the cookies in your swap.
Yes Joy, if only I could taste them all.
I love white chocolate so this is def going on a list of cookies i need to bake.
I love Russian Tea Cakes, too, and made them for my cookie exchange last year!
I love the new look of your blog!
These look so good! Love that they have the crunch!
They really are tasty!
I love the festive pop of red mint candies in these cookies!
They really add a festive flair!
These cookies look so delicious! I pinned this so I can make them this holiday season. I know my kids would love them! Thanks so much!
Thank you for the pin Alison!!
Hello,
1/2 of what of shortening?
Thanks in advance!
I like crisco shortening.