Peppermint bark is great on its own, but when you take those flavors and add them to cookies, you end up with an extraordinary treat that’s festive and delicious. Serve these cookies with other Christmas recipes such as Grinch cookies, peppermint patties, rum balls, M&M cookies and eggnog cake. You can never have too many holiday cookie recipes, especially when chocolate and candy canes are involved! These peppermint bark cookies are fun, festive and so easy to make.
Peppermint Bark Cookies Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need semisweet chocolate chips or chocolate chunks, unsalted butter, all purpose flour, baking powder, kosher salt, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla extract, white chocolate and crushed candy canes. You can also add sprinkles such as sugar pearls or Christmas sprinkles.
How Do You Make Peppermint Bark cookies?
Preheat the oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. Melt together 8 ounces of the chocolate and the butter in a large bowl in the microwave. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Place eggs, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl, then beat with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add the melted chocolate to the eggs and mix again. Add the flour mixture and mix on low speed until just combined. Stir in the rest of the chocolate. Place tablespoons of cookie dough on the sheet pan and bake. Let the cookies cool, then add a drizzle of melted white chocolate and the candy canes. You can also add sprinkles. Let the chocolate harden, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Cookies
This recipe is all about the chocolate! Choose a high quality brand such as Guittard or Ghirardelli. You can use bags of chocolate chips or chocolate chunks. You can also buy chocolate baking bars and cut them up into pieces. Peppermint bark cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. I add the pearl sugar ball sprinkles for a little extra holiday sparkle, but this is an optional step. You can also use coarse sanding sugar or Christmas sprinkles. Use a disposable piping bag or a freezer bag with the tip cut off to make perfect drizzles of white chocolate.
Flavor Variations
While these cookies are delicious as-is, you can customize some of the flavors to suit your tastes.
Chocolate: Try making the cookies with semisweet melted chocolate in the dough, but stir in different types of chocolate into the dough as chips or chunks before baking. You could use milk chocolate, white chocolate, or a combination of type of chocolate. Toppings: No candy canes on hand? Use crushed peppermint candy rounds instead. You can also add other toppings such as mini chocolate chips.
Once you try these cookies, you’ll find yourself making them for the holidays every year.
