peppermint patty cookies

How To Make peppermint patty cookies

• Step 1
  Combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda in a small bowl.
• Step 2
  Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla one at a time and beat until incorporated.
• Step 3
  Slowly beat in flower mixtureuntil dough is mixed and smooth.
• Step 4
  Cover bowl and cool in fridge for 20 minutes.
• Step 5
  While dough is cooling, preheat oven to 325ºF and prepare 3 or so baking sheets with foil.
• Step 6
  Also, while dough is cooling, you can make the filling: beat powdered sugar, remaining butter, and vanilla and peppermint extract in a medium bowl until smooth and thick.
• Step 7
  Remove dough from fridge, roll into balls a little smaller than a ping pong ball. Flatten on cookie sheets with your palm to about 1/2 cm thick. (Pretty thin.)
• Step 8
  Bake 17 minutes.
• Step 9
  Remove from oven and let cookies cool on a cooling rack for about 5 minutes. Then let them cool, flat, in the fridge for another 10-15 minutes. (This hardens them so that they don't break while you add the filling and glaze.)
• Step 10
  You can make the glaze while they are cooling: melt chocolate chips in a double boiler until completely smooth. (That's it. Super easy!)
• Step 11
  Spoon a dollop of melted chocolate on top of each cookie and sprinkle the crushed candy cane on top of each before the chocolate hardens.
• Step 12
  Enjoy! Keep in the fridge so that they don't melt, I think they're better cold, just like Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies ;)
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