Peppermint Bark Snowflake Cookies Recipes

PEPPERMINT BARK SNOWFLAKES

Steps:

• Place your mold on a baking sheet.
• Gently melt the semisweet chocolate and 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in a large microwave-safe bowl, stopping and stirring at 30-second intervals until melted and smooth. Add ¼-1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract.
• Pour into your silicone molds (my layers were slightly under a half-inch deep). Gently shake the pan back and forth to level the chocolate.
• Sprinkle with some candy cane bits.
• Refrigerate while making the white chocolate layer.
• Melt the white chocolate and 1 teaspoon vegetable oil as you did the dark chocolate and add extract.
• Pour white chocolate over dark chocolate (about the same depth), gently shake the pan to level the white chocolate, and sprinkle tops with candy cane bits before the chocolate hardens.
• Chill, then remove from molds to serve

PEPPERMINT BARK SNOWFLAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or silpat liner. In the bowl of a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer, combine cake mix, frozen whipped topping, and egg. Beat until combined - about two minutes. Add in peppermint extract and beat to combine. Scoop dough into balls with tablespoon, roll in powdered sugar,and place twelve on each cookie sheet.
• 2. Spray the bottom of a glass with nonstick spray and slightly flatten each ball. Sprinkle with crushed peppermint cookies. Bake for 7-8 minutes and remove. Cool completely.
• 3. Slowly melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Remove from heat and allow to cool but not firm up. When cookies have cooled, turn upside down and brush melted chocolate on bottom of cookies . Allow to cool. To speed up the chocolate setting - put cookies in freezer for five minutes. When chocolate has set enjoy!!

PEPPERMINT BARK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Beat butter, vegetable shortening, light brown sugar, and white sugar in a separate large bowl until creamy. Beat eggs, vanilla and peppermint extracts, and red food coloring into butter mixture until smooth. Gradually beat dry ingredients into wet ingredients until dough is smooth. Fold white chocolate chips and crushed candy canes into dough.
• Pinch off 1-tablespoon-sized pieces of dough, roll into balls, and place on ungreased baking sheets. Lightly flatten cookies with the bottom of a drinking glass.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are set but not browned, 9 to 10 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks.

CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT BARK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl until combined.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and white sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, and peppermint extract and mix until thoroughly combined. Mix in half of the dry ingredients until just combined. Mix in remaining dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in peppermint bark pieces, pecans, and crushed candy cane pieces.
• Place 1 tablespoon-sized balls of dough 1 1/2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops of cookies just begin to set, 10 to 15 minutes. Allow cookies to cool for at least 5 minutes on the baking sheets before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.