Peppermint Bark Cookies
on Dec 20, 2012, Updated May 14, 2024
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So the cookie eating has expanded to candy and snack eating in general. My office around the holidays is a danger zone! Gift basket after gift basket full of chocolates, cakes, candies, meats, cheeses, crackers… I could go on and on. Anywho… I had picked up this bag of peppermint bark pieces from Trader Joes last week and thought I would put them in some cookies!
I could have eaten the pieces right out of the bag, but I thought I should really get ahold of myself. I do have to fit in my NYE dress after all.
So you will just whip up a batch of simple chocolate cookie dough and add in the pieces.
Then scoop onto a cookies sheet….
And bake for 12 minutes!
And feel free to sprinkle with powdered sugar!
Peppermint Bark Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 bag Trader Joe's Peppermint Bark Baking Bits
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until completely blended. Beat in one egg at a time, until well blended. Beat in one egg at a time until combined. Stir in vanilla. In a seperate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt & cocoa. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, beating until combined. Fold in the Peppermint Bark Baking Bits. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-14 minutes.
