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
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!
Don't forget to pin these. They are sure to be a favorite at your house.
White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup butter or margarine softened
- ½ shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda=
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white baking chips
- ½ 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.
Nutrition
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What is your favorite holiday cookie recipe?
Karen
Those cookies look delicious. Now I'm hungry and I want to bake cookies.
Raquel
I feel the same way when I see them 🙂
Tamara
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.
Raquel
It was a lot of fun, but would have been really cool to taste all the cookies.
Akaleistar
Those cookies look really good 🙂
Raquel
Thank you!
Teresa
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!
Raquel
Thanks Teresa! The cookie recipe swap was fun - enjoying them all from afar. 🙂
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I bet Chrystal loved them, they look delicious!! What a fun cookie swap 🙂
Camille
They all look delicious! Thanks for sharing!
Raquel
Thanks Camille!
Joy Weese Moll (@joyweesemoll)
Sounds delicious! Love seeing all the cookies in your swap.
Raquel
Yes Joy, if only I could taste them all.
Sara
I love white chocolate so this is def going on a list of cookies i need to bake.
Ginny Marie
I love Russian Tea Cakes, too, and made them for my cookie exchange last year!
I love the new look of your blog!
Natalie
These look so good! Love that they have the crunch!
Raquel
They really are tasty!
Lise Ode
I love the festive pop of red mint candies in these cookies!
Raquel
They really add a festive flair!
Alison McKown
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!
Raquel
Thank you for the pin Alison!!