Chocolate Peppermint Cookies with Vanilla Buttercream
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies with Vanilla Buttercream is a soft, chewy chocolate cookie base with a creamy vanilla buttercream topped with crushed peppermint candies. The combination of flavors is so rich and festive! This will make a great addition to any Christmas or Holiday cookie platter!
Servings: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- [Vanilla Buttercream]
- crushed peppermint candies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes or until light (in color!) and fluffy.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl and then add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Add the flour, cocoa, soda, salt and cornstarch and mix together. Start mixing slowly, gaining speed as the flour incorporates. Mix until the dough has come together.
- Scoop the dough and arrange it onto a cookie sheet.
- Use the back of a drinking glass to flatten the cookies.
- Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes or until the cookies are puffy and no longer glossy.
- Let the cookies rest on the hot cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring the a metal cooling rack.
- Frost the cookies with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and sprinkle the tops of the cookies with the crushed peppermint candies.