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.

Jump to:

• 🍪 Why you’ll love these cookies
• 🍫 Ingredients needed
• 🥣 How to make these cookies (step by step guide)
• 👩🏻‍🍳 Tips for this recipe
• 💭 Recipe FAQs
• Christmas Crinkle Cookies

🍪 Why you’ll love these cookies

These Christmas Crinkle Cookies will definitely get you in the Christmas spirit. They are loaded with chocolate and have just a little bit of peppermint to them.

🍫 Ingredients needed

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 and powdered sugar: A light layer of regular sugar will help the powdered sugar stick better to the crinkle cookies while baking.

🥣 How to make these cookies (step by step guide)

To make these cookies, you will begin by measuring out and combining your dry ingredients. Stir well with a large spoon (image 1). This method is called reverse creaming and will give you a softer cookie.

Next, mix in your wet ingredients and mix with a hand mixer until well combined. Be careful not to over mix the dough (image 2). Stir your chocolate chips in with a large spoon (image 3).

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 (image 4). 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 10 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully transferring to a cooling rack.

👩🏻‍🍳 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 10 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.

💭 Recipe FAQs

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