Chocolate Peppermint Christmas Crinkle Cookies

These chocolate peppermint Christmas crinkle cookies are perfect for the holidays. These cookies are sure to be your new favorite!

If you haven’t a Christmas crinkle cookie before, I have to warn you these chocolate peppermint ones are rich. They are wonderful over the holidays and very decadent.

I think these crinkle cookies look so pretty in a box of Christmas cookies for neighbors and friends. They really are such a special cookie for the holidays.

Tips for this recipe

• Measure your flour and cocoa powder correctly. Even a little less or more could change the recipe a great deal.
• Don’t skip chilling the dough or your cookies will be too flat when you bake them.
• Let them rest on your baking sheet for about 5 minutes. Carefully move them to a cooling rack.
• Don’t overdo it with the peppermint as it is very strong. Just ¾ of a teaspoon is plenty.

How to store these cookies

You can store these cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for about 5 days.

What ingredients are needed for this recipe?

For this recipe, you will need:

• All purpose flour: The base of the cookie dough
• Cocoa powder: You’ll want to get unsweetened cocoa powder.
• Baking soda: To make the cookies crinkle.
• Salt: You’ll need just ¼ teaspoon of salt.
• Butter: You’ll want to use unsalted butter for this recipe. Let it soften to room temperature.
• Granulated sugar and brown sugar: To sweeten the cookies
• Eggs: You’ll need two large eggs.
• Vanilla extract and peppermint extract: For all the Christmas flavor! Pure extracts are best for baking. Be careful to measure correctly, especially the peppermint.
• Chocolate chips: You’ll want semi-sweet for this recipe.

For the rolling, you will need both:

• Granulated sugar
• Powdered sugar

How to make these cookies

• To make these cookies, you will begin by measuring out and combining your dry ingredients.
• Stir well with a large spoon.
• Next, mix in your wet ingredients and mix with a hand mixer until well combined. Be careful not to over mix the dough.
• Stir your chocolate chips in with a large spoon.
• Let your dough chill in your fridge for at least one hour, preferably two.
• After the dough is chilled, form balls from about 1 ½ tablespoons of dough.
• Roll each ball in the granulated sugar and then in the powdered sugar.
• Place on a greased baking sheet, leaving room for the cookies to spread.
• Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes.
• Let the cookies rest for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully transferring to a cooling rack.

If you enjoyed these Christmas cookies, you might also like:

• Gingerbread Banana Pudding
• Matcha Crinkle Cookies
• Vanilla Crinkle Cookies
• Easy Cake Mix Oatmeal Cookies
• Copycat Great American Cookies Sugar Cookies

Don’t forget to save this recipe to your Chirstmas board on Pinterest!