White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

My White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are famous. Crushed candy canes and white chocolate chips combine for the best Christmas cookie!

I’ll try and give the short version as to why these cookies are famous. I know you want to get to the recipe! My recipe for Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chip Cookies has been called “mind-blowing”. Everyone who tries them are hooked and raves about them.

Most recently, I baked 28 dozen cookies over a four week period for my son’s football team. I think of them as good luck now. My son’s team went on an unforgettable playoff run to make it to the regional final game (Ohio, Division 2) for the first time since 2008. It was his Senior season. He was their starting Center. It was incredibly fun and an experience that he (and me) will cherish forever.

Anyway, that’s 336 cookies that I recently baked. This recipe is the exact same as that recipe. Except that instead of peanut butter and chocolate chips, these contain white chocolate chips and crushed candy canes. And I recently changed them up even further. You can bake them with one cup of white chocolate chips and one cup of bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate chips instead. And if you like nuts, chopped Macadamia nuts would be a great addition to them too. However you choose to make them, I promise you will love these cookies!

Ingredients for white chocolate peppermint cookies

• Flour – Use all-purpose flour.
• Butter – Make sure to soften your butter before you start making the dough. I usually use the soften setting on my microwave to do this.
• Light Brown Sugar – Be sure and pack it down into the measuring cup.
• Granulated Sugar
• Egg – Use one large egg. Try to remember to get it out of the refrigerator a few minutes before you start making the dough.
• Baking Powder, Baking Soda and Salt
• Peppermint Extract – Helps to enhance the peppermint flavor of the cookies.
• Vanilla Extract
• White Chocolate Chips – I always use Ghirardelli brand. I have not personally tested another brand. Please let me know your experience in the comments if you bake these with a different brand of white chocolate chip.
• Candy Canes – I have tested both and I prefer using candy canes instead of peppermint candies.

How to make peppermint white chocolate cookies

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Crush the candy canes and put them into a small bowl.
3. Using a stand mixture, cream together the butter and sugars until fluffy. If you don’t own a stand mixer, use a hand mixer and large mixing bowl.
4. Add the egg and extracts and beat again until combined.
5. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and soda and salt.
6. Add the flour mixture and the white chocolate chips. Mix on low speed for about a minute until the dough is smooth and well combined.
7. Use a cookie scoop to form 24 cookie balls.
8. Dip the top halves of the cookies lightly into the crushed candy canes.
9. Place the cookies, peppermint side up, onto cookie sheets lined with either silicone baking mats or parchment paper, 12 cookies per sheet.
10. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes.

Pro Tips

• You can easily double or triple this recipe.
• Be sure and rotate your baking pans halfway through baking time. Front to back and top to bottom if you are baking two pans of cookies at a time.
• Here are some great methods for softening your butter quickly.
• The cookies will look a bit underdone when you take them out of the oven. They will set up as they cool on the cookie sheets.
• Make sure to double bag your candy canes in Ziploc bags. Then use a hammer to gently crush them into tiny pieces. You can use a rolling pin if you don’t have a small hammer.

Storage Directions

Keep these cookies in a cookie tin or other type of air tight container on your counter for a few days. These also freeze well. Place them in layers in an airtight container. Be sure and separate the layer with sheets of wax paper. They will stay fresh in the freezer for up to one month.

Kitchen Tools

I have been baking cookies for many years. These are my favorite, time-tested tools…

• Nordic Ware Commercial Half Sheet Pans
• Silpat Silicone Baking Mats
• OXO Medium Cookie Scoop
• Chopnotch Measuring Cups and Spoons
• OXO Bent Icing Spatula (for leveling off flour and sugar)
• OXO Cookie Spatula

More Christmas Cookie recipes

• Santa Sugar Cookies
• Cut Out Sugar Cookies
• Thumbprint Cookies
• Snowball Cookies
• Gingerbread Cookies

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