White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Chocolate Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie! A delicious double chocolate chip cookie is dipped in white chocolate and crushed candy canes are sprinkled on top. Perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges, parties, packages and so much more!
This is the best time of year for baking! What is your favorite treat to bake? I LOVE baking Christmas Cookies! It’s a fun activity to do with my family and then enjoy together and give to friends and neighbors. These White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Chocolate Cookies are some of the best cookies I’ve ever made! My kids are obsessed with these and even wanted them for breakfast the other day!
Although it seems a little fancy, it’s actually very easy to make! And you can make the cookie dough ahead of time by either freezing it for a month or so or just keep it in the fridge for a couple of days. Then when you are ready to make these cookies just bake it up, dip in white chocolate and sprinkle with crushed candy canes or peppermint candies. Since it’s not quite Christmas time I couldn’t find candy canes at the grocery store so I used thepeppermintint candies. Either works great!
How pretty are these cookies?! The contrast in colors is beautiful and the taste is amazing! I love this chocolate cookie recipe and have made it for years. A little peppermint extract is added and it’s so tasty! Then you just dip the cookies in melted white chocolate and crushed peppermint candy/candy canes and it’s ready to be enjoyed!
This is also a wonderful cookie to package and include in a gift basket. I was sent some fun products from Nielsen-Massey and McCrea’s Candies and you are going to want to enter my giveaway at the bottom of this post so you can win the same thing! (Giveaway is now closed) I’ll talk more about it later on but these caramels are the best and I love the products from Nielsen-Massey. The Pure Peppermint Extract is the quality you want for baking (like in today’s recipe!) and the Pure Vanilla Sugar is flavorful and goes well with so many baking recipes.
This is now one of my favorite cookie recipes! I know you will love it!
Enjoy!
White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup dark brown sugar (packed)
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 8 ounces good quality white chocolate (chopped)
- 3 large candy canes (or a small handful of peppermint candy, crushed)
Instructions
For the Cookies:
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the butter and sugars. Beat together on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Blend in the egg, vanilla, and peppermint extracts. Scrape down the bowl if needed.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients in the mixer on low speed just until incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Either chill all the dough in the fridge for at least an hour then roll into balls or you can roll dough into balls first then chill. Roll 1.5 tablespoons of dough into balls.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350˚ F.
- Place the cookie dough balls on the baking sheets. The cookies don’t spread much so if you like them less thick, press down slightly.
- Bake 8-9 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheets for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
For the Coating
- Melt the chopped white chocolate in a double boiler or use the microwave. For the microwave, place the white chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl. Melt in 15-second increments, stirring well after each increment until completely melted and smooth. Dip each completely cooled cookie halfway into the white chocolate and gently shake off excess chocolate. Place onto a parchment or wax paper lined baking sheet and immediately sprinkle crushed peppermint candy on top of the chocolate. Repeat with the rest of the cookies. Allow to set at room temperature or place the baking sheet in the refrigerator to speed up the process. Once set, enjoy!
Notes
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
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My fav Christmas cookies are peanut butter clusters or anything with chocolate in it.
My favorite is red velvet chocolate chip cookies.
I love christmas sugar cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie is the frosted cut out. We only make them a couple of times a year because they are time consuming. My all time favorite cookie is the good old chocolate chip…with pecans!
My favorite are oatmeal scotchies, primarily because I like to eat handfuls of butterscotch chips.
My favorite Christmas cookie is pecan crescents rolled in powdered sugar.
My favorite Christmas cookie is the Italian ones my family used to get from an Italian bakery in Hartford, Connecticut. Since its difficult to get them, my second favorite Christmas cookie is a frosted sugar cookie.
My favorite Christmas cookie is cream cheese cookies filled with raspberry preserves.
These look delicious! I make a double chocolate toasted pecan cookie for Christmastime but really anytime. Haha!
These look yummy! I love white chocolate peppermint combo for the holidays! My favorite cookie is Kneaders white chocolate cranberry.
My favorite are spritz cookies.
Thank you!
Ginger snaps are a definite favorite.
This is my favorite Christmas cookie recipe! I discovered it a couple years ago, and it’s SO good!! https://therecipecritic.com/2013/12/peppermint-meltaways/
I love wedding finger cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie is a peanut butter blossom.
I love big and soft sugar cookies.
Sugar Cookies. I just love them.
I think every cookie is my favorite!!! Except not those powdered sugar wedding cookies. 😉
There is a chocolate peppermint cookie I love!
Those cookies look delicious! I’ll have to try them and I bet they would be a favorite! Also love pumpkin chocolate chip if that counts 😉
My mom makes the best Peanut Butter Thumbprints.
I like peppermint cookies
I like gingerbread cookies
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My favorite is Molasses 😋
Thumbprint cookies are my favorite. Especially when we make them with marionberry jelly.
I love Gingerbread cookies.
Big, soft ginger cookies are my favorite.
Favorite cookie is chocolate with more chocolate!
My favorite is Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
Mary Beth Elderton
I love all cookies but I definitely love chocolate cookies of any kind!
Iced sugar cookies make the season for me.
I loved my grandmas Swedish butter cookies they were so amazing now we bake them.
My favorite Christmas cookie are butter cut out cookies, I love frosting and decorating them.
We like gingersnapa during the holidays.
Pecan Kisses
Butter spritz are my favorite Christmas cookie
Christmas cookie cutouts
My favorite Christmas cookies are cutout sugar cookies
I love gingersnaps!
My family’s favorite Christmas cookies are Raspberry Almond Tartlets. They are amazing Almond flavored shortbread sandwich cookies with raspberry preserves and a dusting of powdered sugar!
I definitely love butter cookies with frosting. Especially the ones in Christmas shapes – like tree shapes with green frosting and sprinkles for ornaments.
My favorite is frosted sugar cookies!
My favorite cookie is gingerbread men.
Chocolate crinkles. I love them when they are nice a chewy.
I love spritz cookies!
Italian Wedding Cookies are yummy!
My favorite christmas cookies are russian tea cakes!
I love frosted sugar cookies.
plain sugar cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie is chocolate chunk peanut butter cookies.
Frosted sugar cookies are my favorite at Christmas!
Seven layer cookies are my favorite holiday cookie.
My favorite Christmas cookie is my Grandmas kolache cookie! The fillings in them are amazing:) She’s Czech, and the recipe is one her grandma passed down:)
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Peppermint sugar cookies
My favorite Christmas cookies are my Mom’s butter cookies.
I love big, soft sugar cookies.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite cookie!! That’s like picking a favorite child! Ha, just kidding. I think if I really really had to pick, I’d go with a coconut macaroon. Yum! Looks like an AMAZING set, thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I like christmas sugar cookies.
My favorite cookie is probably Molasses!
My favorite is frosted sugar cookies.
I love all Christmas cookies!! But my favorites are Molasses, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodles, ginger snaps. I enjoy baking for the holidays and I make tons of cookies to give away to family and friends.
My favorite Christmas cookies are frosted sugar cookies.
I love Mexican wedding cookies for the holidays.
MY favorite is frosted sugar cookies mmmmmmm
We love sugar cookies decorated with royal icing…
My favorite is the sugar cookies that my grandmother used to make!
My favorite is gingerbread.
Buckeye’s for sure
we all love those angels thumb prints 🙂
These look Amazing!! My fav has always been a soft gingerbread cookie.
These chocolate dipped peppermint cookies look so festive! Perfect for the holidays!